Lockheed Martin Lands New Legal Chief as Musk Criticizes F-35

Lockheed Martin Corp. has hired Kevin O’Connor, a former federal prosecutor who once was a key legal adviser to President-elect Donald Trump’s 2016-17 transition team, to be its new general counsel.

O’Connor’s recruitment was announced late Tuesday by Lockheed, which said he will join the Bethesda, Maryland-based aerospace and defense giant as of Jan. 13, 2025, a week before Trump is inaugurated and returns to the White House. O’Connor succeeds retiring Lockheed legal chief Maryanne Lavan.

Lockheed has recently come under fire from technology titan Elon Musk, who took to X—the social platform he owns once known as Twitter—to ...