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Lockheed Martin has further developed and prepared its new electro-optical targeting technology for integration into F-35 aircraft.

Raytheon has performed the second demonstration of a land-based expeditionary variant of its Joint Precision Approach and Landing System before a group of global military officials at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland.

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works arm has teamed up with the U.S. Air Force and the Missile Defense Agency to demonstrate multidomain operations and secure data transmission across multiple systems.

A new Mitre study says the U.S. Air Force should expand four additional bases in the Pacific to accommodate operations of up to 24 bombers and 18 tankers as well as procure and field “large magazines of long-range standoff weapons” to counter anti-access/area denial threats, the Air Force Magazine reported Thursday.

Tovey Bachman and Pat Kumashiro of LMI wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday on Defense News that implementing hedging models could help the Department of Defense address sustainment issues with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.

Lockheed Martin has received a four-year, $77.7M contract modification to deliver long lead materials, parts and software data loads to support low-rate initial production efforts for lots 12, 13 and 14 of the U.S. Navy’s F-35 Lightning II aircraft fleet.

Lockheed Martin has secured a three-year, $34.7M undefinitized contract from the U.S. Navy to create an engineering change proposal for F-35 fighter jets that will allow the aircraft to carry heavy weaponry.

Lockheed Martin has partnered with Premium Aerotec to investigate which F-35 aircraft components can be produced through the use of 3D printing methods to decrease manufacturing costs.

Lockheed Martin is planning to install “sixth generation” updates to its fifth-generation F-35 fighter jets including automated collision avoidance features and a 40 percent increase in fuel tank capacity, Defense News reported Saturday.

Forecast International has predicted that fighter aircraft manufacturers will produce a total of 3,401 jets from 2019 to 2028 and estimated that industry's overall production value will hit $264.2B by the end of the 10-year forecast period.

Lockheed Martin has delivered the 500th unit of its electro-optical targeting system, which utilizes infrared technology capable of tracking air or ground targets and was designed for the F-35 aircraft.

Lockheed Martin wants to update the communications, fuel tank and weapons systems of the F-35 aircraft, National Defense Magazine reported Monday.

Lockheed Martin has selected Cubic’s mission solutions business to deliver video data link systems for F-35 Lightning II aircraft units to optimize the aircraft’s combat capacity.

Lockheed Martin and Universal Synaptics have partnered to help the Department of Defense detect and address intermittent faults in avionics systems, Avionics International reported Monday.

The U.S. Air Force has begun to assess whether it can integrate an artificial intelligence platform, Skyborg, into an F-35 or F-15EX fighter aircraft to enable pilots to control the Kratos Defense-built XQ-58 Valkyrie unmanned air vehicle and other drones, Defense News reported Wednesday. Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, told the publication Tuesday that the service is in talks with Lockheed Martin and Boeing on the plan to team fighter aircraft with drones through the Skyborg program.