Welcome to the skunkWORKS website.

skunkWORKS would like to outline our commitment to efficiency, cost effectiveness and reduced corporate overheads, and hope this will leave you with the ability to choose us with confidence.

So what does skunkWORKS mean?

A skunkWORKS is a group of people whom, in order to achieve unusual results, work on a project in a way that is outside the usual rules.

Often they're small teams who assume, or are given, responsibility for developing something in a short space of time with minimal management constraints to reduce communications overhead.

The name skunkWORKS comes from the Lockheed Martin top secret projects that built the U-2 Spy Plane (the aircraft which first penetrated the Iron Curtain), the SR-71 Blackbird, and the F-117A Stealth Fighter.

Lockheed Martin itself got its name from Al Capp's "Li'l Abner" comic strip, which featured the "Skonk Works".