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The U.S. Navy has commissioned the USS Marinette, a Freedom-class littoral combat ship constructed by Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri’s Marinette Marine shipyard. The vessel, which was named after a city in Wisconsin, was delivered to the Navy in February and inaugurated on Saturday in Menominee, Michigan, DVIDS reported. The Marinette is the Navy’s 25th littoral […] More
Andrea Joyce, a 15-year Lockheed Martin veteran, has joined Westminster, Colorado-based satellite imagery provider Maxar Technologies as vice president of financial planning and analysis. Prior to Maxar, Joyce was business operations director for global security at Lockheed, according to her LinkedIn profile. Her more than a decade career at the Bethesda, Maryland-based defense and aerospace […] More
NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne have wrapped up 25 years of rocket engine testing collaboration that supported 44 national space launches. The engine builder’s hydrogen-fueled RS-68 technology helped government customers launch key missions, such as the U.S. Air Force-led Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Program, while working with NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, the agency said […] More
Lockheed Martin unveiled a new technology test bed that uses artificial intelligence, cloud computing and automation to manage multiple satellite operations in space. The Operations Center of the Future, which was built at Lockheed’s campus in Denver, Colorado, is equipped with its proprietary Horizon and Compass satellite software, the company said Monday. Compass is a […] More
BAE Systems has modernized and demonstrated a vehicle management computer for all three variants of the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 aircraft during flight tests that occurred at two military installations. The VMC was updated to improve the jet’s computer performance, boost safety and availability, and address obsolescence and maintenance requirements, BAE said Wednesday. Computer features include […] More
A Lockheed Martin business will maintain the software of H-60 multimission helicopters currently in service with the U.S. Navy and six international countries under a five-year, $49.5 million contract. Australia, Denmark, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Greece and Norway are the foreign customers under the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award to Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems unit, the […] More
The Space Development Agency has completed an orbital insertion of 13 satellites from Lockheed Martin, SpaceX and York Space Systems, marking the second launch under an initiative to demonstrate missile warning and tracking capabilities for the U.S. military. SDA said Saturday’s Tranche 0 Transport Layer mission took off at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California […] More
Lockheed Martin‘s extended-range variant of the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System met a set of criteria during a flight test held at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. ER GMLRS was fired from the U.S. Army’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launcher and hit targets at a maximum range of 150 kilometers, reflecting performance […] More
Lockheed Martin is set to kick off mobile network experimentation after delivering to the U.S. Marine Corps the Phase 1 prototype 5G testbed variant for the Open Systems Interoperable and Reconfigurable Infrastructure Solution. OSIRIS is a 5G communications network testbed for use in expeditionary operations experimentation in support of USMC and the office of the […] More
Lockheed Martin has received a $60.5 million firm-fixed-price contract to produce an electromagnetic warfare system designed to enhance the U.S. Army’s airborne combat capabilities. Services related to the AN/APR-48B Modernized-Radar Frequency Interferometer will also be provided under the award, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. The AN/APR-48B system is designed to acquire targets for the fire control […] More
The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin‘s missiles and fire control business a $23 million contract to provide engineering services for a common ignition safety device for the PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3 missile segment. The cost-plus-incentive-fee contract is expected to be performed in Grand Prairie, Texas, until April 28, 2025, the Department of Defense said Monday. Lockheed […] More
The State Department has approved a potential $104 million foreign military sale of Lockheed Martin-made extended-range Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile systems and related equipment to the government of Japan. Under the FMS request, Lockheed would supply 50 units of the AGM-158B/B-2 JASSM-ER, a variant designed to launch from the bomber aircraft, the Defense Security Cooperation […] More
