Aerospace and Defense Industry in Orlando

The aerospace and defense organizations that publish Orlando addresses are Lockheed Martin (Lockheed Martin) and the Army and Navy training system offices at 12211 Science Drive (U.S. Army CPE ST3).

Lockheed Martin runs Missiles and Fire Control on Sand Lake Road and its Training, Logistics and Simulation business at Global Innovation Circle.

The table lists the Orlando employers and federal offices whose own official pages give an Orlando address. Lockheed Martin entries come from the company's Orlando page; the federal offices come from their own Army and Navy sites. No official county or city list of private defense employers with headcounts was available to check, so this guide does not rank companies by jobs.

The medical side of the same training industry has its own Orlando healthcare simulation guide; this guide stays with aerospace manufacturing and defense programs.

Lockheed Martin lists Apache fire control sensors, the Army ATMP training device maintenance program, cyber training and the F-35 Lightning II Electro-Optical Targeting System among the products built in Orlando (Lockheed Martin).

Missiles and Fire Control, the Sand Lake Road operation, is described by Lockheed Martin as the corporation's lead business for research, development and production of electro-optic and smart munitions systems, serving the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and dozens of foreign allies (Lockheed Martin). The business is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, so the Orlando site is not its head office. Its Orlando contact line is (407) 284-9248.

The Training, Logistics and Simulation business is based in Orlando at 100 Global Innovation Circle and is the company's center of excellence for training and logistics products, according to Lockheed Martin. It builds programs that train crews to fly fighter aircraft, navigate ships and drive armored vehicles, and it handles sustainment work such as spares, repairs and automated test equipment. It belongs to Rotary and Mission Systems, headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. Its contact line is (407) 619-0732.

The company's Florida numbers are its own and are statewide, not Orlando only: 17k+ employees residing in the state, 73 total facilities, 989 suppliers in the state and over $8.2 billion in supplier dollars, plus a company estimate that it will contribute $70 billion to the Florida economy with the defense industrial base over the next 10 years (Lockheed Martin). Among its Orlando news items, Lockheed Martin lists a July 16, 2025 story on updates to its Javelin production line.

The Army's Capability Program Executive Simulation, Training, Test and Threat (CPE ST3) and the Navy's Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division both list 12211 Science Drive in Orlando (U.S. Army CPE ST3; NAVAIR), and Naval Support Activity Orlando supports them (Navy Region Southeast).

Naval Support Activity Orlando was set up on October 1, 2003 to serve the Navy training systems division, which had moved to its current Orlando location in 1988 (Navy Region Southeast). The Navy describes NSA Orlando as only 40 acres in size and arguably one of the smallest Navy facilities in the world, and calls the training systems division one of the principal foundations of the Orlando Central Florida Research Park. The NAWCTSD site gives its commanding officer's address as 12211 Science Drive, Orlando, Florida 32826 (NAVAIR).

The Army program office has a new name that not every federal page has caught up with. The Navy Region Southeast page still lists the Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation as a major NSA Orlando tenant (Navy Region Southeast), while the Army site at the same web address now publishes as CPE ST3, led by Capability Program Executive Brigadier General Christine A. Beeler (U.S. Army CPE ST3). Anyone searching Orlando contract notices or job listings should search under both names.

CPE ST3 lists its service partners as including the Navy training systems division, the Program Manager for Training Systems (TRASYS) and the Air Force Agency for Modeling and Simulation, and it posted a joint morning colors ceremony on board NSA Orlando on September 30, 2026 that brought together military and civilian staff from every service with a presence there (U.S. Army CPE ST3).

The Martin aircraft company first opened its Orlando office in 1956 as the main contractor for the U.S. Army Pershing missile, Orange County says (Orange County timeline).

Orange County names it the Glenn L. Martin Company, an aircraft and aerospace manufacturer that, after a series of mergers, is today's Lockheed Martin.

Orange County records that Pine Hills, founded by developer Gordon Barnett in 1952, was built as a suburban community for workers at the Martin Marietta defense facility and became one of the area's first planned suburbs (Orange County timeline). That 1952 entry sits awkwardly beside the county's 1956 date for Martin's Orlando office, and the timeline does not reconcile the two. Pine Castle Air Force Base was renamed McCoy Air Force Base in 1958 and became a joint civil and military facility in the 1960s. The county timeline gives two dates for the switch to Orlando International Airport: one entry says that in 1975 the airport transitioned to exclusive civil use, and another says it shifted to civilian use in 1981 with its first passenger terminals.

In 1968 the Naval Training Center, used during World War II as the Orlando Army Air Station, was transferred to the Navy; it trained more than 650,000 Navy recruits before closing in 1993; Mayor Glenda Hood led the reuse plan that turned the site into Baldwin Park (Orange County timeline). Florida Technological University opened the same year with science, technology and engineering majors aimed at the space program at Kennedy Space Center, and was renamed the University of Central Florida, UCF, in 1978.

The City of Orlando now names modeling, simulation and training, along with digital media and technology and life sciences, among the high-tech, high-wage industries that regional leaders work to grow (City of Orlando). Lockheed Martin describes its own Orlando presence as more than 60 years of innovation and economic growth (Lockheed Martin).

BLS counted 13,649 federal government jobs in Orange County in 2025, plus 5,743 private jobs in scientific research and development services and 1,056 in navigation and control instrument manufacturing, while private aerospace product and parts manufacturing employment was not disclosed (BLS QCEW).

The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages counts jobs by industry for Orange County as a whole, not the Orlando city limits, and it has no single aerospace and defense category. The rows below are the closest official industries, with names from the BLS industry titles list (BLS industry titles). Federal jobs include every agency in Orange County, not only the military offices.

For scale, all Orange County industries averaged 954,330 jobs in 55,130 establishments in 2025, at an average annual pay of $70,599 (BLS QCEW). Inside the suppressed aerospace group, BLS does publish two small pieces: aircraft manufacturing (336411) with 6 establishments and 119 jobs, and other aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing (336413) with 8 establishments and 104 jobs. BLS publishes the Orange County aerospace product and parts row and the guided missile and space vehicle row with disclosure code N and zeros in the job, wage and change columns, even though it counts 30 aerospace establishments, which is the main reason no official Orlando defense headcount can be quoted.

The Army's Orlando program office links businesses to SAM.gov, its Office of Small Business Programs and ACC-APG, and it posts industry day and technical exchange slides on its site (U.S. Army CPE ST3).

CPE ST3 lists a technical exchange of August 11, 2026, an industry day and technical exchange of March 10, 2026 and an April 21, 2026 opportunities briefing among the Orlando business materials on its site (U.S. Army CPE ST3). Its main public phone is (407) 721-3024. On the private side, Lockheed Martin counts 989 suppliers in Florida, a statewide company figure that includes but is not limited to Orange County (Lockheed Martin).

Last verified: October 18, 2026, on the Lockheed Martin Orlando page, the U.S. Army CPE ST3 and Navy Region Southeast NSA Orlando sites, and the BLS QCEW 2025 annual file for Orange County.