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  • Research and Markets: Global Small Drones Market to Reach $10B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Global Small Drones Market to Reach $10B by 2020

    A new Research and Markets report has predicted the global small drones market to hit $10.04 billion in value by 2020 as demand for commercial application increases. Research and Markets said Wednesday defense and commercial sector operations and tasks that use small drones increase over the past 10 years following the advancements in payloads technology. […] More

  • Lockheed to Support Military Veteran Genomics Project; Horace Blackman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Support Military Veteran Genomics Project; Horace Blackman Comments

    Lockheed Martin has signed an agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs in a bid to expand the company’s data security, integration and interoperability roles for the Million Veteran Program. MVP is a voluntary research initiative that seeks to study the association of genes with health and diseases through the creation of a database containing health […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Names John Mollard VP & Treasurer; Marillyn Hewson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Names John Mollard VP & Treasurer; Marillyn Hewson Comments

    Lockheed Martin has selected John Mollard, vice president of financial planning and analysis, to serve as both VP and treasurer as well as a newly elected corporate officer beginning April 4. The company said Monday Mollard will be in charge of its LMC Properties subsidiary and global banking activity and oversee treasury operations, rating agency relations, capital planning and risk management. […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Adds LogRhythm to Cybersecurity Alliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Adds LogRhythm to Cybersecurity Alliance

    Lockheed Martin will work with LogRhythm on cybersecurity systems integration pilot programs after the latter signed up for the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance. LogRhythm also agreed to offer its security intelligence platform and share cybersecurity-focused best practices with Lockheed as a member of the alliance, Lockheed said Monday. The LogRhythm-built security intelligence tool works to […] More

  • Lockheed Martin, Cybereason Team Up to Launch New Endpoint Cybersecurity Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin, Cybereason Team Up to Launch New Endpoint Cybersecurity Tech

    Lockheed Martin teamed up with Cybereason to combine the latter’s Endpoint Detection and Response platform and Lockheed’s threat intelligence to launch the Wisdom EDR endpoint technology. Angie Heise, vice president of Lockheed’s commercial cyber business, said in a release issued Monday Cybereason’s services work to complement Lockheed’s cybersecurity programs. Wisdom EDR is designed to track anomalies and capture and […] More

  • Lockheed-Led Team Lands NASA Supersonic Transport Plane Task Order; Charles Bolden Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Led Team Lands NASA Supersonic Transport Plane Task Order; Charles Bolden Comments

    A Lockheed Martin-led team has been awarded a potential 17-month, $20 million task order to perform preliminary design work on NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Transport X-plane aircraft. NASA awarded the task order for the “low boom” flight QueSST passenger jet under the Basic and Applied Aerospace Research and Technology contract and as part of its New Aviation Horizons […] More

  • Air Force Unveils Northrop's B-21 LRS Bomber Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Unveils Northrop’s B-21 LRS Bomber Aircraft

    U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James showed a concept design for the military branch’s future B-21A Long Range Strike Bomber plane during an air warfare symposium held Friday in Orlando, Florida. “The B-21 has been designed from the beginning based on a set of requirements that allows the use of existing and mature technology,” James said […] More

  • Jeff Babione: Lockheed Can Handle F-35 Block Buy in FY 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeff Babione: Lockheed Can Handle F-35 Block Buy in FY 2017

    Lockheed Martin has said it maintains the capability to produce F-35 fighter jets to fulfill a potential block buy from the program’s international partners in fiscal year 2017, Defense News reported Thursday. Jeff Babione, Lockheed’s F-35 program manager, said the Joint Program Office must finalize its decision within the next six months so that Lockheed will be able to […] More

  • Lockheed to Integrate Standoff Missile into Polish Aircraft; Bob Adams Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Integrate Standoff Missile into Polish Aircraft; Bob Adams Comments

    Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $7.9 million contract to integrate the joint air-to-surface standoff missile into the Polish air force’s F-16C/D aircraft under a foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. Air Force. Work under the contract will support certification and flight activities and will complete in 2018, Lockheed said Thursday. “JASSM’s high reliability […] More

  • CEO Brad Feldmann Details Cubic's C4ISR Push, Defense Business Investments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CEO Brad Feldmann Details Cubic’s C4ISR Push, Defense Business Investments

    In a one-year span that featured announcements of three acquisitions, Cubic Corp. unveiled a nearly $400 million bet that the C4ISR market will spur long-term growth in the San Diego-based contractor’s global defense business that represents roughly 60 percent of its estimated $1.5 billion in revenue. Cubic made its first move of that C4ISR expansion effort in December 2014 with the $114.5 million acquisition of […] More

  • Lockheed to Work on Navy Submarine Combat System Interface Redesign - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Work on Navy Submarine Combat System Interface Redesign

    Lockheed Martin will work to refresh the interfaces of the U.S. Navy’s various submarine warfare subsystems under a $60 million contract awarded in December. The company will update the Submarine Warfare Federated Tactical Systems on multiple submarine classes such as the Virginia-class submarines, Lockheed said Tuesday. Lockheed’s SWFTS systems engineering and integration team will perform work […] More

  • Visiongain: Global Military Smart Weapons Market Worth $22B in 2016 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Visiongain: Global Military Smart Weapons Market Worth $22B in 2016

    Visiongain predicts in a new report that the global military smart weapons market will hit $22.32 billion in 2016. The report examines the market’s competitive landscape and identifies potential business opportunities, Visiongain said Monday. Visiongain also analyzes potential developments in the following five submarkets within the military smart weapons sector over the next 10 years: Radar-guided military […] More