DENVER, Dec. 15, 2014 – Alaska Aerospace Corporation (AAC) has selected Lockheed Martin’s [NYSE:LMT] Athena rocket as its launch vehicle of choice for small and medium lift missions from the Kodiak Launch Complex (KLC). Lockheed Martin and AAC will work together to define and implement rocket and launch pad upgrades to support a wider range […]
Baltimore, Md., Dec. 15, 2014 – The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] a $235 million contract to continue building MK 41 Vertical Launching Systems (VLS) with options that, if exercised, would increase the value to $356 million. The VLS fires a wide range of missiles, primarily off of U.S. Navy cruisers and destroyers. […]
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 15, 2014 – The U.S. Air Force has approved full rate production for Lockheed Martin’s [NYSE: LMT] Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile – Extended Range (JASSM-ER). JASSM-ER successfully completed U.S. Air Force Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) flight testing in 2013. During IOT&E, the program had a 95 percent success rate, scoring […]
Company Seeks to Rapidly Connect Warfighters to MUOS Communications Satellite Network SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 12, 2014 — With the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) expected to achieve global communications coverage next year, Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] recently established a new radio terminal development and certification facility to help put MUOS’ new capabilities into […]
Washington D.C., Dec. 11, 2014 – The Department of Defense has assigned F-35 Regional Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul and Upgrade (MRO&U) capability for airframes and engines for the European Region. The assignments were based on data compiled and analyzed by the F-35 Joint Program Office that was collected from European Partners and their industries. These initial […]
MARIETTA, Ga., Dec. 11, 2014 – The Republic of Tunisia received its second C-130J Super Hercules during a ceremony today at the Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] facility here. Tunisia received its first C-130J in April 2013, marking the first delivery of a J-model to an African nation. Lockheed Martin signed a contract in 2010 with […]
PALMDALE, Calif., Dec. 10, 2014 – In a series of U-2 flight tests, Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] integrated multiple Air Force Open Mission Systems (OMS) payloads using the Skunk Works® Enterprise Open Systems Architecture (E-OSA), demonstrating the ability to rapidly modernize the aircraft’s mission systems architecture. The flight tests conclude a five-month research and development […]
DENVER, Dec.10, 2014 – This year marked the 10th anniversary of the first operational deployment of the Command Control, Battle Management & Communications (C2BMC) system, the critical part of the ballistic missile defense system that integrates globally deployed sensors, radars, satellites and interceptors into a unified network. C2BMC gives commanders a unified picture of missile […]
Engineering Teams Analyzing Heat Shield, Data Recorders from Flight Test San Diego, California, Dec. 9, 2014 – Engineers are getting their first look at the Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT]-built Orion spacecraft following its successful flight test and recovery on Dec. 5. With the spacecraft recovered from the Pacific and brought to port in San Diego, technical […]
HERNDON, Va., Dec. 8, 2014 – The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) became the first intelligence agency to host an operational capability within Amazon Web Services’ Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) environment after Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] deployed the interactive map for NGA’s Map of the World to the C2S environment. The Map of the World initiative […]