Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force plan to offer a base model of the F-16 fighter jet to speed up foreign military sales of the aircraft, FlightGlobal reported Saturday.

Lockheed Martin has selected Luna Innovations to provide sensors for monitoring the internal environment and external corrosion of the Orion spacecraft NASA will use to transport astronauts to deep-space destinations.

A team comprised of Lockheed Martin and Ball Aerospace has completed transmission testing for a next-generation antenna system that will serve as part of the U.S. Space Force’s modernized satellite control network.

Lockheed Martin has demonstrated key systems and features of the USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul, the 11th littoral combat ship of the U.S. Navy's Freedom class, during acceptance trials held in Lake Michigan.

Ellen Lord, acquisition chief at the Department of Defense and four-time Wash100 awardee, said she is confident that DoD can hand down a decision in March on Lockheed Martin's readiness to begin full-rate production of the F-35 aircraft.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Laboratories unit a $14.8M contract to prototype a cloud-based forensic tool designed to automatically detect and segregate disinformation campaigns.

Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm has invested in artificial intelligence company Fiddler for an undisclosed amount in a push to scale the latter’s technology in the aerospace and defense sectors, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday.

Lockheed Martin completed a captive-carry test of a second hypersonic weapon prototype on the U.S. Air Force's B-52 Stratofortress bomber aircraft Saturday off the Southern California coast.

Lockheed Martin has partnered with the University of Southern California to launch student-made CubeSat small satellites, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. Students from the university will produce the CubeSats that will undergo integration with a payload built on Lockheed's SmartSat software-defined architecture. SmartSat allows satellite operators to conduct in-orbit mission shifts.

A helmet display system developed by an Elbit Systems of America-Collins Aerospace joint venture has started to undergo  flight tests as part of a U.S. Air Force flight release process for the Lockheed Martin F-16V aircraft.

Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force have partnered to develop and implement a virtual reality system for training the service branch’s F-35A aircraft maintenance personnel.

The team of Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri Marinette Marine has laid the keel of the future USS Beloit, the 15th littoral combat ship of the U.S. Navy's Freedom class, at a ceremony that was held in Wisconsin and marked the start of the shipbuilding project.

Lockheed Martin CEO James Taiclet said he intends to pursue the use of 5G networks to strengthen the autonomous capabilities of military vehicles, Reuters reported Tuesday.

Lockheed Martin reported net sales of $16.2 billion, net earnings of $1.6 billion and cash from operations of $2.2 billion for the second quarter of 2020.

Boeing's Aurora Flight Sciences subsidiary, Lockheed Martin and Georgia Tech Research Corp. have received separate contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to explore active flow control approaches for X-plane development.