Skunks’ Chief Scientist
Edward H. Allen
For more than 20 years, Edward H. Allen served as Chief Scientist of Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs (‘the Skunk Works’) and then as Chief Scientist for the Lockheed Martin Corporation as a whole. He established nearly a hundred external and internal scientific research programs for Lockheed Martin and other sponsors, investing in quantum information sciences at universities and research laboratories worldwide, and most of those programs are still going on. Born in 1943, his formal education spans mathematics, physical and social sciences, and the law at the Universities of Chicago (Chicago, IL), Stanford (Stanford, CA), Swarthmore (Swarthmore, PA), Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA), and New Hampshire Law (Concord, NH). His work continues under the auspices of Alcority LLC (Dallas, TX), which manages an international collaboration he leads. Here, he recounts his intellectual development in scientific methodology and philosophy.
Keywords: Chief Scientist of Lockheed Martin, mathematics, physical and social sciences, law