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  • Roger Krone: Leidos Eyes Client Range Expansion Through Merger With Lockheed Services Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Roger Krone: Leidos Eyes Client Range Expansion Through Merger With Lockheed Services Business

    Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, has said his company’s impending merger with Lockheed Martin’s information systems and global solutions business is part of Leidos’ goal to pursue other market opportunities and expand its client base in an interview with Forbes posted Wednesday. “[W]e will use this transaction as an opportunity to redefine our swim lanes — not walking away […] More

  • Lockheed-Serco-Jacobs JV Lands Updated UK Atomic Weapons Establishment Mgmt Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Serco-Jacobs JV Lands Updated UK Atomic Weapons Establishment Mgmt Support Contract

    A joint venture of Lockheed Martin, Serco Group and Jacobs Engineering Group has received an updated contract to manage operations of the U.K. defense ministry’s atomic weapons establishment after a completed a review of the program. AWE Management Ltd. will operate the AWE sites built to develop, maintain and produce warheads in support of the U.K. government’s nuclear […] More

  • Lockheed Commits to Airbus Engine MRO Contract With Frontier Airlines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Commits to Airbus Engine MRO Contract With Frontier Airlines

    Lockheed Martin‘s commercial engine development and distribution unit has received an eight-year exclusive contract from Frontier Airlines for CFM56-5 engine repair and maintenance services on the Airbus-built A319 and A320ceo aircraft. Lockheed Martin Commercial Engine Solutions will perform work in Montreal and receive initial delivery orders from the first quarter of this year through 2023, Lockheed said Wednesday. Prior to the agreement, […] More

  • Kitron to Build IF Receiver Tech for Northrop's F-35 Radars - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kitron to Build IF Receiver Tech for Northrop’s F-35 Radars

    Northrop Grumman has ordered about $60.4 million in intermediate-frequency receivers from Kitron for the radar systems of Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. Kitron said Thursday it will also provide technical know-know, create IF radar receiver prototypes and manufacture sub-assembly testing equipment under a manufacturing license agreement  with Northrop. Northrop builds radar technology for integration into F-35s. Norway-based Kitron provides electronic circuit boards manufacturing, prototyping, […] More

  • Lockheed Reseller Partner Gets Straightline Aviation LOI to Purchase Hybrid Airships for $480M - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Reseller Partner Gets Straightline Aviation LOI to Purchase Hybrid Airships for $480M

    Lockheed Martin reseller partner Hybrid Enterprises has received a letter of intent from Straightline Aviation for the purchase of 12 Lockheed-built Hybrid Airships worth an estimated $480 million. Hybrid Enterprises has started negotiations with SLA regarding the purchase agreement and works to finalize the sales of the cargo and passenger transport aircraft, Lockheed said Wednesday. Lockheed selected Hybrid Enterprises in June 2015 […] More

  • Lockheed Resumes Missile System Production in Arkansas; Ken Musculus Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Resumes Missile System Production in Arkansas; Ken Musculus Comments

    Lockheed Martin has completed work to relocate its Tactical Missile System production line to the company’s Camden, Arkansas-based facility. The relocation began in 2014 after the company suspended TACMS production at a facility near El Paso, Texas and planned to integrate its Precision Fires missile and rocket production in Camden, Lockheed said Tuesday. “Restarting the TACMS […] More

  • Lockheed Initiates Aegis Integration Aboard Australian Navy Destroyer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Initiates Aegis Integration Aboard Australian Navy Destroyer

    Lockheed Martin‘s test team has begun integration of the Aegis combat system on the Australian navy’s Hobart-class air warfare destroyer. The integrated test team also tested that the Aegis combat system was installed and functional aboard the destroyers, the company said Wednesday. Rob Milligan, surface ships program lead at Lockheed’s Australian arm, said engineers and technicians […] More

  • NASA to Start Orion, Space Launch System Base Development at Kennedy Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Start Orion, Space Launch System Base Development at Kennedy Center

    NASA plans to build ground infrastructure to process the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket that the agency plans to launch in 2018 for an unmanned deep-space exploration. The initiative comes after NASA engineers and aerospace specialists completed a comprehensive assessment on proposed spaceport development at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, the agency said Monday. An engineering team […] More

  • Lockheed Lands Forecast Tools Supply Contract With Oman Airports Mgmt Co - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Lands Forecast Tools Supply Contract With Oman Airports Mgmt Co

    Lockheed Martin has received a seven-year contract to provide forecasting tools to Oman Airports Management Co. for operations management functions at airports in the Middle East country. Lockheed said Tuesday it will supply its BEONTRA-built B Capacity and B Tactical platforms for OAMC to develop strategic resource plans and support daily operations at Salah and Muscat International Airports and at Oman […] More

  • Microsemi Products Support Lockheed-Built Ballistic Missiles in Navy Test Flights - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsemi Products Support Lockheed-Built Ballistic Missiles in Navy Test Flights

    Microsemi has provided design services and electronic products in support of the Lockheed Martin-built Trident II D5 fleet ballistic missile, which completed U.S. Navy-led test flights this month. The semiconductor provider said Thursday its electronics technology that works to support missile control and navigation functions has been integrated into the Trident missiles as part of the D5 […] More

  • Bloomberg: Navy Eyes BAE for Nuclear Weapon Cyber Defense Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bloomberg: Navy Eyes BAE for Nuclear Weapon Cyber Defense Contract

    The U.S. Navy plans to select BAE Systems as the prime contractor for a program to build up cyber defenses that surround the country’s nuclear weapons inventory and other systems, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Benjamin Katz writes BAE will review and oversee the safety policies for the Lockheed Martin-built Trident missiles under the potential five-year contract, which contains […] More

  • Lockheed Unveils 'Space Fence' Radar Hardware, Software Testing Hub in New Jersey - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Unveils ‘Space Fence’ Radar Hardware, Software Testing Hub in New Jersey

    Lockheed Martin has opened a facility in Moorestown, New Jersey, to evaluate hardware and software of a ground-based space debris monitoring infrastructure for the U.S. Air Force. The company said Monday it built the Space Fence test center for verification of the S-band radar’s tools that are designed to help the Air Force track, detect and catalog orbital objects. Lockheed is constructing the radar system on Kwajalein […] More