Siemens has secured a multiyear deal to provide Lockheed Martin a suite of software products and services to support the latter’s digital engineering strategy. Lockheed’s aeronautics segment will implement the Xcelerator platform in efforts to accelerate program life cycles and drive innovation pursuits surrounding digital transformation, Siemens said Tuesday. Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO of […] More

Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm has made an investment in Electra.aero through a Series A funding round to enable the latter to perform flight testing of its hybrid-electric ultra-short takeoff and landing demonstrator aircraft in 2022. “Electra’s technical approach to sustainable aviation is differentiated, and we are excited to see this concept mature,” Chris Moran, […] More

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 14, 2022 — The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has elected Maria Demaree, a vice president at Lockheed Martin, Maisha Glover, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, and four other executives to serve on its board of directors for three years, GovCon Wire reported. The new appointees will be […] More

Unmanned aircraft systems made by General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business demonstrated collaborative sensing with a Lockheed Martin-built sensor within a two-hour flight. General Atomics said Monday it deployed two Avenger UAS that used Lockheed’s Legion Pod to passively gather data on long-range air threats then transmitted the input to a ground-based command center. The Legion […] More

The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin $102 million to update the sensor systems of 25 Apache helicopters used by the Egyptian government. The company said Friday it will convert Egypt’s Apaches from D-model to E-model configuration, which includes the Gen III Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor and the Gen III Day Sensor […] More

Lockheed Martin has partnered with Amazon and Cisco to equip NASA’s Orion spacecraft with human-machine interface technologies designed to allow for deep space voice and video communications. The Callisto technology would use Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant and Cisco’s Webex video conferencing platform to demonstrate communications as NASA prepares Orion for the Artemis I uncrewed mission, […] More

Lockheed Martin recorded a range of testing, sales and performance milestones achieved by the F-35 aircraft in 2021. The previous year saw Switzerland and Finland joining the F-35 customer base and Denmark receiving its first F-35 unit, the company said Monday. The Netherlands also became the ninth country to declare initial operational capability of the […] More

NASA has equipped its newly launched James Webb Space Telescope with an advanced infrared camera from Lockheed Martin to support the telescope’s mission to see the universe’s oldest light. The Near Infrared Camera serves as Webb’s primary imager that will sense incoming infrared light to help the telescope align an array of 18 mirror segments […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s space business has received a $70.1 million U.S. Navy award that exercises options for the production and support of Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles. The Trident D5 work under the contract modification will take place mostly in Cape Canaveral, Florida, with other locations in the U.S. and Italy, and it is expected to […] More

Lockheed Martin has secured a $286.5 million contract modification with the Missile Defense Agency to continue helping Saudi Arabia maintain and operate its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system. The company will provide equipment, spare parts and support services to support ground production, maintenance, software updates, training and logistics of Saudi Arabia’s THAAD under the […] More

Lockheed Martin has awarded BAE Systems a $493 million contract to upgrade the electronic warfare system aboard the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet. BAE said Wednesday it will provide updated core hardware for the fighter aircraft’s AN/ASQ-239 EW system to improve warfighters’ situational awareness and countermeasure and electromagnetic attack capabilities. The modernized EW system will […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s rotary and mission systems business has landed a potential six-year, $77.6 million sole-source contract from the U.S. Air Force to supply training systems for F-16 Block 70 jets of foreign military sales customers. The company will engineer, develop, produce, integrate, test and deliver training equipment and spare parts in support of two Eastern […] More