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Lockheed Martin Corp. has updated its industrial automation systems tool for customers to meet cybersecurity, compliance and change management requirements. Critical infrastructure businesses will be able to develop security and compliance programs by deploying the sixth version of the Industrial Defender Automation Systems Manager platform, Lockheed Martin said Monday. Brian Ahern, president and CEO of […] More
An industry team led by Lockheed Martin is working to establish a link between battle management systems used by the Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Army. The Missile Defense National Team is developing the C2BMC (command, control, battle management and communications) system to unify disparate ballistic missile defense elements, Lockheed said Thursday. “Potential air and ballistic missile threats […] More
NASA evaluated how a mock-up of Lockheed Martin‘s Orion crew capsule would handle landing in high altitude with three main parachutes during a flight demonstration on Wednesday. The parachute system helped to land NASA’s Orion demonstrator after being dropped from a military transport aircraft flying 35,000 feet above Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, NASA said Wednesday. […] More
Lockheed Martin and Australian company Sandpit have partnered to offer a system to mining companies for monitoring stockpiles from space, the Australian Journal of Mining reported Thursday. Oliver Probert writes that MineRECON is built to to see a satellite take two photos, roughly a minute apart, of a specific area of land at a minesite, port facility, or any other site requiring […] More
The solar panels built for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R series have been tested, approved and sent to Lockheed Martin‘s facility in Denver to be incorporated onto the spacecraft. NASA said Tuesday that the solar array, which contains five sections that come together to resemble a black wing, was deployed […] More
A consortium led by Optomec has been awarded a $4 million project to develop three-dimensional printing methods to repair metallic aerospace structures for the U.S. Air Force. The 3D printer company will collaborate with GE Aviation, Lockheed Martin, Rolls-Royce and 20 other organizations to explore additive manufacturing techniques under the Re-Born in the USA project, […] More
DigitalGlobe and Ball Aerospace executives have discussed with Commerce Department Secretary Penny Pritzker the issues of an aerospace workforce and commercial satellite imagery regulations during a roundtable in Denver, Colorado. DigitalGlobe CEO Jeffrey Tarr and Ball Aerospace CEO Robert Strain also updated Sec. Pritzker on how the WorldView-3 satellite could work to meet various demands, […] More
Lockheed Martin has begun work to unify the Defense Information Systems Agency’s information systems network in an effort to give users consistency between different tools, technologies and procedures. Four network operations and technology centers are under consolidation from the regional field commands to two locations, Lockheed said Tuesday. “This convergence is a key example of the shared […] More
Northrop Grumman‘s communications payload for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite has passed on-orbit testing conducted by the U.S. Air Force and deemed able to configure communications networks with ground terminals. The company said Tuesday the payload on the AEHF-3 began signal transmission in January as the satellite reached geostationary orbit alongside other satellites in a constellation named the “ring of […] More
Lockheed Martin and China’s State Nuclear Power Automation System Engineering Company will collaborate to manufacture prototype protection systems for the country’s third-generation nuclear power plant reactors by using field programmable gate array technology. The FPGA-based nuclear safety instrumentation and control platform will work to monitor and identify potential system failures and be part of a new deployment or an […] More
The National Security Agency has issued cyber incident response assistance accreditation to seven companies under the National Security Cyber Assistance Program, the Defense Daily Network reported Wednesday. Following an assessment of 21 focus areas, such as incident analysis and network traffic data collection, the NSA accredited Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton, CrowdStrike Services, FireEye, Mandiant, Maddrix and Verizon. NSA’s information assurance directorate also evaluated the […] More
Out of the 13,000 defense contractors nominated for the 2014 James S. Cogswell award for Outstanding Industrial Security, Lockheed Martin is the first company to be recognized with seven Cogswell awards, presented June 17 at the 50th annual National Classification Management Society seminar in National Harbor, Maryland. The Defense Security Service nominated Lockheed based on […] More
