Aerospace, Defense, Risk Management

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Aerospace & Defense

Navigating risk in today’s geopolitical landscape.

Strategic navigation & global reach

Today’s world is different. Terrorist threats continually emerge and shape-shift. As these challenges continue to rise, we are ready to take them head-on.

Lockton's expert Aerospace & Defense team partners with government contractors around the world to strategically navigate the risks associated with a dangerous geopolitical landscape. 

Work once performed primarily by the U.S. government and other states is now globally outsourced. Clients from venture-backed start-ups to Fortune 500 and FTSE 350 Tier 1 Defense Industrial Base (DIB) leaders depend on Lockton’s risk management and insurance expertise. Lockton stands ready to deliver.  

Uncommonly independent, our team of experts focuses on your needs and embraces your challenges as our own. Together, we work as partners to proactively achieve long-term goals — while protecting your interests at every turn.

Delivering results

When you choose Lockton, you select a team that puts your business results first, not ours. We identify and mitigate insurable risks, making it our business always to stay one step ahead.

To identify and mitigate insurable risks, we thoughtfully plan, bravely push boundaries and creatively devise winning strategies, making it our business to keep you/stay one step ahead.  

Lockton’s team of global specialists enlists/works with seasoned contract professionals to not only transfer risk, but to more accurately/precisely price bid proposals. Our holistic view of international deployments includes global employee benefits, foreign workers’ compensation, defense base act, personal accident, and kidnap & ransom.

We don't believe in one-size-fits-all. We excel at creating tailored solutions that keep pace with diversifying business needs and more sophisticated threats. Purposefully unconventional with vision and extensive experience — Lockton's global team delivers exceptional results that drive success today and into the future.

With foresight, vision and extensive experience — Lockton’s global team delivers results.  

Latest news & insights

As geopolitical conflict escalates, our recent webinar breaks down what wartime cyber activity really looks like, and what organizations should be doing now to stay resilient.Webinar | Cyber Risk in Wartime: What Leaders Need to Know Now

Webinar | Cyber Risk in Wartime: What Leaders Need to Know Now

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As geopolitical conflict escalates, cyber risk moves faster, hits harder, and increasingly crosses from IT into operations. In partnership with Axio and Dragos, we brought together leading cyber risk experts for a high‑impact executive webinar designed to hel ...
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