Greg Ulmer, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s aeronautics business, has said the U.S. Air Force could release a solicitation for logistics and sustainment support for F-35 aircraft this spring, Inside Defense reported Friday.
Read More »US, Lockheed Submit F-35 Package Proposal to Switzerland; Greg Ulmer Quoted
The U.S. government has submitted its Lockheed Martin-built F-35 aircraft package proposal to Switzerland as part of the European nation’s New Fighter Aircraft program.
Read More »Lockheed Reaches 500th Delivery Milestone in F-35 Aircraft Program; Greg Ulmer Quoted
Lockheed Martin has reached a new milestone in the F-35 program with the delivery of the 500th unit.
Read More »Lockheed Completes 134th F-35 Aircraft Delivery
Lockheed Martin has handed over to the U.S. Marine Corps the 134th unit of a multirole fighter designed to conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
Read More »Moog Receives F-35 Component Production Contracts
Lockheed Martin has awarded Moog contracts worth potentially $400M over three years to produce control components for the F-35 aircraft.
Read More »Lockheed Partners With Air Force, MDA on Multidomain Ops Demonstration
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.
Read More »Lockheed, Premium Aerotec Form Additive Printing Partnership for F-35 Aircraft
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.
Read More »Michele Evans Talks Lockheed F-35 Block 4 Modification Plans
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.
Read More »Lockheed Plans Tech Updates for Lot 15 F-35 Production
Lockheed Martin wants to update the communications, fuel tank and weapons systems of the F-35 aircraft, National Defense Magazine reported Monday.
Read More »Lockheed Transitions F-35 Suppliers to Long-Term Repair, Logistics Contracts; Greg Ulmer Quoted
Lockheed Martin has awarded master repair agreements and performance-based logistics contracts to multiple suppliers supporting the Bethesda, Md.-based company's F-35 aircraft development efforts.
Read More »Lockheed Hits F-35 Aircraft Production Goal for 2018; Greg Ulmer Quoted
Lockheed Martin has built and delivered 91 F-35 fighter jets to military customers this year, up 40 percent from 2017 deliveries and a 100 percent increase over 2016 production levels. The U.S. Marine Corps received the 91st aircraft, an F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing variant, at a USMC air station in Beaufort, S.C., the company said Thursday. …
Read More »Initial Ground Test Results of Lockheed-Built F-35A Variant Show Potential for Service-Life Increase
Lockheed Martin and the F-35 joint program office have wrapped a series of durability, drop and static tests designed to validate the F-35 aircraft’s resilience and strength in combat environments and support maintenance forecasting and fleet management operations. The fighter aircraft has an average service lifetime of 8K hours and …
Read More »Lockheed, Partners Shift F-35 Program Focus to System Upgrade, Sustainment Efforts
Lockheed Martin and its partner companies in the F-35 Lightning II program will move forward with efforts sustain and update the fighter aircraft’s systems after the industry team completed 309 deliveries to military customers worldwide, AIN Online reported Tuesday. Greg Ulmer, vice president and general manager of Lockheed’s F-35 program, said during a …
Read More »Lockheed Taps Raytheon for F-35 Sensor Development Work
Raytheon has been chosen to develop a sensor technology for F-35 pilots to obtain situational awareness and detect threats in battlespace. Lockheed Martin said Wednesday it picked Raytheon after a competitive process for the development of the Distributed Aperture System starting with the fighter program’s lot 15. Greg Ulmer, vice president and general manager of …
Read More »Lockheed Appoints Jeff Babione as Skunk Works Head, Greg Ulmer as F-35 Program Lead
Jeff Babione, executive vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin‘s F-35 program, has been appointed to similar roles within the defense and aerospace contractor’s advanced development programs division known as Skunk Works. Lockheed said Thursday Babione will lead Skunk Works’ efforts to support warfighters and succeed Rob Weiss, who will retire in late 2018. In …
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