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Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s space business and a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, has said that companies should work to establish a diverse supply chain and marketplace to help the U.S. Space Force address future requirements, SpaceNews reported Monday.

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.

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.

CalypsoAI has raised $13M in a round of Series A financing led by Paladin Capital Group and will use the investment to pursue global expansion and innovation.

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.

BAE Systems has received a $3.5M subcontract from Lockheed Martin to develop autonomous and artificial intelligence platforms as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program aimed at increasing the performance of robotic military ground and air vehicles.

Lockheed Martin has handed the Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 452's first KC-130J tanker aircraft, one of the company's nine Super Hercules production models.

Lockheed Martin has accelerated $256M in supplier payments this week as part of efforts to support supply-chain level small business amid operational disruptions, Inside Defense reported Friday.

Sierra Nevada Corp. has received and unpacked the Lockheed Martin-built wing units of a spaceplane designed to resupply the International Space Station for NASA.

Lockheed Martin has achieved training milestones for pilots and maintenance personnel under the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet program, Defence Blog reported Friday.

Lockheed Martin has unveiled its plans to extend support efforts for healthcare workers and its employees in the supply chain segment amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The U.S. Space Force has issued an operational acceptance certification for the second Lockheed Martin-developed GPS III satellite containing updates to its contingency controls.

United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V vehicle has sent the sixth Lockheed Martin-built Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite to orbit as part of the U.S. Space Force’s efforts to support military communications around the world. 

Gen. Robert Neller and Dionel Aviles, a 44-year U.S. Marine Corps veteran and a former vice president of policy and outreach at Lockheed Martin's government affairs office, respectively, have been appointed to serve on McNally Industries’ board of directors.