Robert Lightfoot, president of Lockheed Martin Space, said the company is looking to partner with more space businesses that are working on small satellites and intelligence, surveillance and communications payloads to meet the increasing demand within the government market for resilient space-based capabilities. “We’re looking for strategic partners," Lightfoot, a three-time Wash100 awardee, told the publication at a conference on Tuesday. "We're interested in talking with anyone who has an advantage in those areas from a space perspective."

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Lockheed Martin has selected Wichita, Kansas-headquartered Perfekta, a division of Cadence Aerospace, to build parts for the Orion spacecraft and supply defense components for an early missile warning satellite constellation, The Wichita Business Journal reported Monday.

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Lockheed Martin’s new $16.5 million engineering facility in Huntsville, Alabama, has officially opened. Lockheed said Tuesday that the Missile System Integration Lab will be used in the development and systems integration of the Next Generation Interceptor for the Missile Defense Agency.

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Robert Lightfoot, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s space business, said the company launched a new unit, dubbed Ignite, to promote innovation and facilitate the maturation of technologies to accelerate the delivery of on-orbit capabilities to government agency customers, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. “What we’ve heard from the traditional customers is: ‘we need better technical […] More

Lockheed Martin demonstrated at the company’s inaugural Destination: Space 2050 event a self-adapting autonomous platform and quantum technology that could support future defense, civil and commercial space missions. Lockheed said Thursday the event sought to incite discussion among experts and customers about the space’s future in the areas of space defense, extraplanetary operations, space logistics, […] More

Robert Lightfoot, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin‘s space division, said the aerospace and defense company aims to enter into partnerships with smaller space technology developers to speed up engineering and manufacturing efforts, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. Speaking at the Satellite Innovation conference in California, the former NASA acting administrator said Lockheed partners and invests in […] More

Robert Lightfoot, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s space business, said the company values the importance of partnerships with technology companies to advance platforms meant to support defense missions. “By partnering with and investing in the best of commercial high-tech companies, we are accelerating the delivery of cutting-edge technologies into our networked systems and helping […] More

Robert Lightfoot, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Space as well as a two-time Wash100 Award winner, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz about his strategic growth goals as EVP with the company as well as his insights into addressing the challenges of federal talent recruitment and the business side of innovation during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. “At Lockheed Martin […] More

Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Robert Lightfoot, executive vice president of Space for Lockheed Martin, as a recipient of the 2022 Wash100 Award for his leadership and drive for innovation in space technology, including the advancement of space exploration and expanding Lockheed’s footprint in the space market as well as the defense and aerospace […] More

Robert Lightfoot, vice president of strategy and business development at Lockheed Martin's space segment, has been appointed chairman of the Alabama Space Grant Consortium's Industrial Advisory Board, according to the University of Alabama at Huntsville. Lightfoot joined Lockheed in early May and oversees strategic planning efforts across space technology programs.

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Michael McCord, comptroller of the Department of Defense; John Mengucci, president and CEO of CACI; Byron Bright, president of government solutions at KBR; and Tony Frazier, executive vice president and general manager of public sector Earth intelligence at Maxar Technologies, are some of the government and industry leaders set to participate in Baird‘s Government & […] More

A Blue Origin-led team has completed an assessment of system requirements for an integrated landing platform intended to support NASA's Artemis mission to the moon.

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