Whistleblower claims Lockheed Martin eliminated whites from bonuses – ‘and they wrote it all down’

A whistleblower has come forward claiming America’s largest defense contractor has been awarding bonuses based on skin color rather than merit.

The whistleblower told right-wing DEI expert Christopher Rufo that they were preparing year-end bonus recommendations for Lockheed Martin’s aeronautics division in 2022 when they were told their “comp adder” list contained too many white people.

EXCLUSIVE: According to a whistleblower, @LockheedMartin awarded employee bonuses “on the basis of their skin color alone and contrary to documented performance.” In one case, the company forced managers to remove 18 whites from the bonus list and replace them with 18 “POC.”

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 12, 2025

“I got a call from [human resources director] La Wanda [Moorer] last night regarding diversity stats on comp adder,” top Lockheed Martin official Santiago Bulnes wrote to the whistleblower in an email, according to a report published by Rufo at City Journal.

“They took a run at getting your few approved and we’re told that we need to fit in the box. I asked her to send you the list of diversity names to simplify the task of finding the best in the group,” he added.

Afterward, other officials in Lockheed’s human resources department reportedly told the whistleblower to add over a dozen minorities to the “comp adder” list and remove an equal number of white people, never mind whether or not the people deserved to be on the list or not.

The whistleblower was reportedly outraged that Lockheed was requiring managers like them to reward bonuses “on the basis of their [employees’] skin color alone and contrary to documented performance.”

The whistleblower followed up by filing an ethics complaint, but the ideologically subverted bosses didn’t care.

“Our HR counsel told me that while this [racist policy] may present business risk, it was the ‘less[e]r of two evils,’” the whistleblower told Rufo.

Disgusting: Lockheed Martin keeps a spreadsheet of employees by race, then instructs managers precisely how many whites they must eliminate from the bonus list, even if those employees performed better than their peers. And they wrote it all down, even though it is illegal. pic.twitter.com/53FPc5mFDK

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 12, 2025

The Lockheed Martin boss who was the leading figure behind this ideological madness was La Wanda Moorer, the director of human resources.

The whistleblower reportedly tried approaching Moorer to ask her what’d happen if not enough minorities were found to replace the white people on the “comp adder” list.

“[T]he preference is for you to get there,” she replied in an email. “If you are coming back and saying you can’t get there and it’s unnatural than [sic] I think that changes the conversation as a business area what risk are we willing to assume, and should we get into a situation where there is legal activity that takes place then you will be part of that process . . . . We haven’t ever been in a situation where we haven’t gotten there.”

In his write-up for City Journal, Rufo stressed that Moorer’s “last comment … suggests this wasn’t the first time Lockheed had engaged in a secret, post hoc process to strip bonuses from top performers and instead award them to employees who checked diversity boxes.”

Since the whistleblower didn’t have a choice in the matter, they complied with the instructions and “swapped” out 18 whites and replaced them with 18 minorities.

Lockheed Martin actually wrote down specific numbers of white people to eliminate from the year-end bonus list https://t.co/ybG0gSin2d

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 12, 2025

However, the fed-up whistleblower had had enough and submitted a resignation letter a few months later.

“I, at the direction of Lockheed, have actively discriminated against higher performing individuals, denied them higher pay they earned, denied them the opportunity to be motivated as a top performer,” the letter read. “Not only does this force a violation of my conscience that forces me to leave, but we could have 18 valid individual claims with associated public embarrassment and lost customer trust.”

A Lockheed Martin spokesperson responded to inquiries from Rufo by claiming “Lockheed Martin is a meritocracy” that’s “committed to recognizing performance, rewarding excellence, and upholding the principles of merit and fairness.”

As for the whistleblower’s allegations, the spokesperson said the company is taking them seriously.

This isn’t the first time Lockheed’s been in hot water over its embrace of DEI.

Christopher Rufo reveals shocking critical race theory training Lockheed Martin employees underwent https://t.co/9hUBqHMKsB pic.twitter.com/uumueOyoou

— BPR (@BIZPACReview) May 29, 2021

It was previously revealed by Rufo that the company once forced 13 senior employees, all of them white males, to undergo critical race theory (CRT) indoctrination.

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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.

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