Lockheed Martin’s aeronautics company has won a $7,193,322 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to help address manufacturing of materials, the Defense Department announced Friday. The agency’s Open Manufacturing Program aims to reduce barriers to manufacturing innovation, speed and affordability of materials, components and structures, according to the Pentagon. A majority of the work will occur [...]
Lockheed Martin Corp. has delivered the 79th and final C-5 Galaxy aircraft to the Air Force through an avionics modernization program, the company announced Monday. The C-5 is the Air Force’s largest cargo aircraft and was originally introduced in the 1970′s. Lockheed said aircraft will be assigned to Air Force Reserve 433rd Airlift Wing, at [...]
Lockheed Martin Corp.’s latest version of a ship-based missile defense system has been certified by the Navy for deployment, according to a company announcement. The updated Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system provides two layers of active missile defense and surveillance for shipss to defend against short-to-intermediate range ballistic missiles. The new system includes a signal [...]
A Lockheed Martin team conducted power-on testing of a GeoEye Earth imaging satellite, the company announced Tuesday. Lockheed’s space systems company is helping to develop GeoEye-2 under a firm fixed-price contract with a GeoEye government customer. Carl Alleyne, GeoEye’s vice president of engineering, said the GeoEye-2 satellite will be operational by 2013. The team installed [...]
Lockheed Martin Corp. has won a $7,377,392 Air Force contract to provide technology for converting digital signals directly to analog, the Defense Department announced Friday. The Air Force wants a single component technology resulting from this work. The company will perform work in Moorestown, N.J. and the Pentagon expects work to finish by April 30, [...]
Lockheed Martin Corp has won a $39.3 million Navy contract modification to update air system design and testing for fighter jets, the Defense Department announced Friday. The Bethesda, Md.-based contractor will continue developing the F-35′s partner version air system under a delta systems development and demonstration program. Funds under the cost-plus-fee contract will not expire [...]
A Lockheed Martin-Raytheon joint venture won a $24,277,782 Army contract modification to produce tactical ammunition rounds, the Defense Department announced Friday. The team will provide 2001AJ and 2001BK rounds under the firm-fixed-price contract. Work will occur in Tucson, Ariz. and the Pentagon expects work to finish on Dec. 31, 2014. The Army Contracting Command in [...]
