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    Lockheed to Transfer F-35 Reprogramming Lab System to Eglin AF Base

    Lockheed Martin has received a $7.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy  to transfer an F-35 aircraft reprogramming laboratory system to a U.S. Air Force base in Florida. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company’s aeronautics business will transition the F-35 Australia, Canada, U.K. Reprogramming Laboratory system from a Lockheed facility in Fort Worth, Texas to Eglin Air Force […] More

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    Lockheed’s Energy Division Seeks Partners to Help Develop Flow Battery Offering

    Lockheed Martin‘s energy unit seeks development and manufacturing partners from the solar industry who can help develop the company’s flow battery technology, PV Tech reported Tuesday. John Battaglini, director of business development at Lockheed Martin Energy, said the company sees four primary applications for its future long-duration energy storage offering including wind, transmission and distribution, solar […] More

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    Air Force to Launch Lockheed-Developed Multi-Mission Satellite Onboard ULA-Built Rocket

    The U.S. Air Force will launch a Lockheed Martin-built multi-mission satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in California on Thursday, Jan. 18. ULA said in a report the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight-4 satellite was built to offer missile warning, missile defense, battlespace awareness and […] More

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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Equipment Supports NRO Natl Defense Payload Launch

    Aerojet Rocketdyne supplied equipment to support the deployment of a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite which flew onboard a United Launch Alliance-built Delta IV rocket. The NROL-47 national defense mission satellite was launched with the help of an Aerojet Rocketdyne-developed RS-68A booster engine, RL10B-2 upper stage engine, 14 helium pressurization tanks and a dozen MR-106H 9 lbf […] More

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    Orbital ATK Backs ULA’s NRO Mission With Rocket Motors, Composite Structures

    Orbital ATK supplied composite structures, motors and other components for a Delta IV rocket that United Launch Alliance launched Friday to bring a National Reconnaissance Office payload into space. Orbital ATK said Friday the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture’s Delta IV rocket that took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as part of the NROL-47 national defense mission has […] More

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    ULA’s Delta IV Sends NRO National Defense Payload to Space

    A National Reconnaissance Office payload lifted off Friday at 2:11 p.m. Pacific time aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Delta IV rocket as part of the NROL-47 national defense mission. Will Crawford, NRO program manager at ULA, said in a statement published Friday the payload’s launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California marks the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture’s 27th NRO mission in partnership with the […] More

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    Lockheed Configures Solid State Radar With Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System

    Lockheed Martin has integrated its solid state radar platform with the Aegis Ashore system in an effort to demonstrate the capability of the combined systems to detect and counter ballistic missile threats. Tony DeSimone, vice president and chief engineer at Lockheed’s integrated warfare systems and sensors, said in a statement published Thursday the combination of […] More

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    Lockheed Encapsulates 4th Air Force Missile Warning Satellite

    A fourth missile warning satellite Lockheed Martin built for the U.S. Air Force has been sealed in a protective launch fairing ahead of a scheduled Jan. 18 launch. Lockheed said Thursday it encapsulated the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight-4 satellite at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where it will lift off aboard a United […] More

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    Norway to Procure F-35, P-8 Aircraft From Lockheed, Boeing

    Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg has said the country intends to buy additional F-35 jets from Lockheed Martin and P-8 maritime surveillance planes from Boeing, FOX Business reported Wednesday. The first three of the 52 ordered F-35 units were delivered in November 2017. A Lockheed representative said to FOX that Norway has supported the F-35 effort since developmental phases. Prime Minister […] More

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    Gibbs & Cox to Help Lockheed Design Saudi Arabia’s Future Surface Combatant Ship

    Lockheed Martin has selected Gibbs & Cox to support functional design work on a  multi-mission surface combatant platform for Saudi Arabia. Gibbs & Cox said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia’s navy chose an MMSC offering that Lockheed based on the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship in a bid to help the service branch confront maritime and economic security threats. […] More

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    Former VMware, IBM Exec Mercer Rowe to Head Avaya Cloud Business

    Mercer Rowe, former vice president of strategic partners at IBM‘s Watson and cloud computing platforms, has been named senior VP and general manager of a newly formed cloud business at Avaya. He will oversee research, development and sales of public, private and hybrid cloud offerings in his new position, Avaya said Wednesday. Jim Chirico, president and CEO at […] More

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    Rolls-Royce Wins Lockheed Freedom LCS Team’s Supplier of the Year Award

    Rolls-Royce has received a supplier of the year award from a Lockheed Martin-led industry team contracted to build Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ships for the U.S. Navy. Lockheed said Wednesday that Rolls-Royce was given recognition during the 30th annual Surface Navy Association National Symposium held Tuesday. Rolls-Royce produces the MT30 gas turbines and Mk1 waterjets for the Freedom-variant LCS’ combined diesel and […] More