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    MDA Tests Lockheed Aegis Combat System Baseline 9.C1 on Navy Destroyer Ship

    The Missile Defense Agency has collaborated with the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Pacific Command to demonstrate the target detection features of a Lockheed Martin-built Aegis weapon system installed on the USS John Paul Jones guided-missile destroyer. MDA said Tuesday the Aegis Baseline 9.C1 Weapon System worked to detect and track a medium-range ballistic missile target that was launched from the Pacific […] More

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    Tony Antonelli: Lockheed’s Base Camp Concept Seeks to Send Manned Spacecraft to Mars Orbit by 2028

    Lockheed Martin plans to introduce a concept for a spacecraft that would be manned by six astronauts and would establish and operate a laboratory in Mars orbit by 2028, Popular Science reported Wednesday. Sarah Fecht writes Lockheed plans to launch the “Mars Base Camp” concept at the Humans to Mars conference in support of NASA’s plan to […] More

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    Lockheed to Refresh Mission Systems of Germany’s P-3C Maritime Patrol Aircraft

    Lockheed Martin has received a $54.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to update mission computers, armament and ordnance systems, displays and controls and acoustic equipment on eight P-3C Orion maritime surveillance planes for Germany. The P-3C Mission System Refresh Program will cover long-lead items procurement, non-recurring engineering, design and build, integration, planning and software development services, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Lockheed’s […] More

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    Lockheed, Indra Demo First-Phase Integration of Radar System for Spain’s F-110 Frigate

    Lockheed Martin and Indra have tested a new solid-state, S-band radar system at a facility in New Jersey as part of the first phase of integration ahead of the platform’s installation on Spain’s future F-110 frigate. The team combined Indra’s Digital Transmit-Receive modules with Lockheed’s solid-state phased array antenna to check their mechanical, electrical and thermal compatibility, Lockheed said Tuesday. The […] More

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    Lockheed Picks Anark Software to Produce 3D Technical Data Packages for Orion Spacecraft; Richard Smith Comments

    Lockheed Martin has selected an Anark-built software that works to generate technical data packages in three-dimensional PDF formats in support of the former’s work on NASA’s Orion spacecraft. Lockheed’s space systems business will use Anark Core Server to produce and publish 3D PDF documents of design and engineering data stored in PTC‘s Windchill software for product data […] More

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    Lockheed to Install Compass Systems on UK Navy Ships, Submarines

    Lockheed Martin has received an estimated $25 million contract from Britain’s defense ministry to develop and install a new compass system for more than 30 U.K. navy ships and submarines. Lockheed said Tuesday the Navigation Compass Program‘s goal is to install a new solid-state, sensor-based compass system for the U.K. navy’s Type 23 Frigates, Hunt– and Sandown-class mine countermeasure vessels, Trafalgar– […] More

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    Lockheed, MIT Form Autonomous Tech Research Partnership; Keoki Jackson Comments

    Lockheed Martin and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have agreed to jointly explore autonomous and robotic technologies under a partnership agreement the parties signed Friday. The company said Monday it will collaborate with the university’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics as well as Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to engage the university’s faculty and students in human-machine teaming and navigation […] More

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    BAE Systems Conducts 1,000th F-35 Vertical Landing

    BAE Systems has completed the 1,000th vertical landing of a Lockheed Martin-built F-35B as part of an ongoing flight test program. BAE said Friday Peter Wilson – lead test pilot for the short takeoff and vertical landing variant of the F-35 — performed the landing at Naval Air Station Patuxent River six years after BAE pilot Graham Tomlinson conducted the first vertical landing. “Every day, […] More

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    First European Aegis Ashore Site in Romania Begins Missile Threat Monitoring Functions

    The first European Aegis Ashore site has begun scanning for potential ballistic missile threats in the skies of southern Europe. The inauguration of the Aegis Ashore site at Deveselu air base in Romania — which utilizes Lockheed Martin‘s Aegis Combat System — completes phase two of the European Phased Adaptive Approach for allied ballistic missile defense, the company said Thursday. Brendan […] More

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    Navy Transports 1st Seahawk Helicopters to Denmark

    The U.S. Navy has delivered three MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to Denmark as part of the second foreign military procurement of the multi-mission helicopters built by Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary. The MH-60Rs were transported from Sikorsky’s William P. Gwinn Airfield aboard two C-17 aircraft bound for Karup air base in Denmark, the Navy said Wednesday. Denmark’s navy will […] More

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    Lockheed Delivers 2 C-130J Variants to Coast Guard, Air Force

    Lockheed Martin has dispatched two variants of the company’s C-130J Super Hercules airlifter to the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Air Force. The company said Thursday that the Coast Guard received the search-and-surveillance HC-130J Tuesday after that aircraft underwent post-production modifications at a Lockheed facility in Greenville, South Carolina while the MC-130J was delivered Friday to the Air Force Special […] More

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    NASA, Lockheed Engineers Test Orion EM-1 Spacecraft Pressure Vessel

    A team of NASA and Lockheed Martin engineers has conducted proof evaluations on a pressure vessel for the Orion Exploration Mission-1 crew module at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The tests aimed to validate if Orion’s underlying structure can withstand loads and forces that spacecraft normally experiences during launch and landing, NASA said Wednesday. Orion program technicians attached […] More