Original sentence: In 2001, Lockheed Martin settled a 9-year investigation conducted by NASA's Office of Inspector General with the assistance of the Defense Contract Audit Agency.It included an email form letter visitors could edit and send to Chief Statistician Ivan Fellegi opposing Lockheed's involvement, and prompted some to refuse to fill out the census forms.Lockheed Martin abandoned plans for a $8.3 billion merger with Northrop Grumman on July 16, 1998 due to government concerns over the potential strength of the new group; Lockheed/Northrop would have had control of 25% of the Department of Defense's procurement budget.Lockheed Martin cancelled their recruitment session at the last minute, and stated that they wanted to "err on the side of caution.On January 20, 2009, a group of students and community members from the Strax social justice group in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, saturated the University of New Brunswick campus with notices that Lockheed Martin, "the world's largest military contractor" would be coming to campus to recruit computer science and engineering students.The Canadian website Vive le Canada ran a campaign from 2004 to 2006 to protest Lockheed's involvement with the Canadian census.The campaign raised privacy concerns, noting that as an American company, all information gathered by Lockheed Martin can be collected by the US government under provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, and with Lockheed Martin's implicit involvement with the unpopular war in Iraq.The campaign, called "Count Me Out", was a response to Statistic Canada's census campaign "Count Me In", and offered information on Lockheed's involvement with the census.The posters provided information about the manufacturing of internationally condemned cluster bombs by Lockheed Martin, and details its close relationship with the Bush administration
Edited sentence: In 2001, Lockheed Martin settled a nine year investigation conducted by NASA's Office of Inspector General with the assistance of the Defense Contract Audit Agency.Lockheed Martin abandoned plans for a $8.3 billion merger with Northrop Grumman on July 16, 1998, due to government concerns over the potential strength of the new group; Lockheed/Northrop would have had control of 25% of the Department of Defense's procurement budget