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  • Cobham to Supply Waveguide Components for Lockheed Maritime Radar System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cobham to Supply Waveguide Components for Lockheed Maritime Radar System

    Cobham has secured a contract worth more than $10 million to provide multiple waveguide assemblies and components to support Lockheed Martin‘s production of three-dimensional fixed-phase array radars for the U.S. Navy. Cobham said Monday its electronic integrated solutions business will manufacture AN/SPY-1D waveguide systems at a facility in New Hampshire. The AN/SPY-1D is designed to function as the primary air search radar on […] More

  • Lockheed's Sikorsky Arm to Give Smithsonian X2 Demo Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Sikorsky Arm to Give Smithsonian X2 Demo Aircraft

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary will donate an experimental aircraft that unofficially broke the rotorcraft speed record in 2010 to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Sikorsky designed the X2 Technology Demonstrator in a push to prove that helicopters can double the speed of conventional rotorcraft designs without having to […] More

  • Kitron to Produce Integrated Backplane Assembly for Lockheed's LRIP Lot 11 F-35s - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kitron to Produce Integrated Backplane Assembly for Lockheed’s LRIP Lot 11 F-35s

    Lockheed Martin has awarded Kitron a multimillion dollar contract to provide integrated backplane assembly for F-35 jets under low-rate initial production lot 11. Kitron said Tuesday it will manufacture, test, maintain and repair the IBA in F-35s as part of the manufacturing license agreement with Lockheed. “After years of supplying for the earlier stages of the low rate initial […] More

  • Lockheed to Establish ICBM Replacement Program Mgmt Office at Northern Utah AF Base - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Establish ICBM Replacement Program Mgmt Office at Northern Utah AF Base

    Lockheed Martin has selected Falcon Hill National Aerospace Research Park at Hill Air Force Base in Utah as the location of the company’s program management office for the U.S. Air Force‘s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile replacement effort. Lockheed said Thursday it signed a lease agreement with Falcon Hill developer Woodbury Corp. for 25,000 square feet of office space to house the former’s PMO […] More

  • Lockheed's Canada Arm to Sponsor Joint Economic Development Initiative Mentorship Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Canada Arm to Sponsor Joint Economic Development Initiative Mentorship Program

    Lockheed Martin‘s Canada-based arm will continue and expand its ongoing partnership with the Joint Economic Development Initiative group on the latter’s training and mentorship program. Lockheed said Wednesday the JEDI Aboriginal Business Accelerator program will work to help participating entrepreneurs in New Brunswick export and create new intellectual property that can be useful to the […] More

  • Lockheed-Built Air Force Satellite Takes New Mission With NSF's South Pole Station - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built Air Force Satellite Takes New Mission With NSF’s South Pole Station

    A Lockheed Martin-built legacy U.S. Air Force satellite has begun to provide communications services for the National Science Foundation‘s South Pole-based Amundsen-Scott Station. Lockheed said Tuesday the Defense Satellite Communications System III B7 replaced NSF’s decommissioned Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-3 in June to establish communication and data links between Amundsen-Scott Station and the U.S. Antarctic Program facility in New Zealand. DSCS III B7 […] More

  • Report: Norway's Defense Dept Plans F-35 'Block Buys' in 2019 and 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Norway’s Defense Dept Plans F-35 ‘Block Buys’ in 2019 and 2020

    Norway’s defense department seeks funds to procure an additional 12 Lockheed Martin-built F-35 jets in 2019 and 2020 through an annual budget proposal submitted to the country’s parliament, Star-Telegram reported Monday. Max Baker writes Norway is the first international partner in the fighter aircraft program  to propose a multiyear procurement of F-35s. “Norway and other international partners on the F-35 program have been […] More

  • Report: Labor Union OKs Sikorsky Helicopter Production Plan in Connecticut - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Labor Union OKs Sikorsky Helicopter Production Plan in Connecticut

    A proposal by Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary to manufacture CH-53K King Stallion helicopters at a company facility in Stratford, Connecticut for the U.S. Navy was approved by local union members through a 2,104-140 vote, CTPost reported Monday. Amanda Cuda writes Teamsters Local 1150 stated that the Navy contract will become null and void if another production facility was selected since the contract […] More

  • Lockheed to Update Army Apache Helicopter Sensors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Update Army Apache Helicopter Sensors

    Lockheed Martin has secured a $49 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide sensor upgrades for AH-64E Apache helicopters. The company said Monday the contract covers 42 Modernized Day Sensor Assembly kits and spares to update the Apache aircraft’s Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor. Lockheed will carry out Lot 1 production at the company’s Orlando and […] More

  • Germany Eyes Lockheed Martin Military Transport Plane Purchase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Germany Eyes Lockheed Martin Military Transport Plane Purchase

    Germany has announced plans to procure between four and six Lockheed Martin-built transport planes following delays in the delivery of the Airbus Group-built A400M military cargo aircraft, Marketwatch reported Tuesday. Robert Wall writes Ursula von der Leyern, Germany’s defense minister, has signed a declaration of intent to acquire the Lockheed C-130J transport planes under the same pool of aircraft that […] More

  • MDA Taps Raytheon to Develop Gallium Nitride Component Transition Process for Radars - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA Taps Raytheon to Develop Gallium Nitride Component Transition Process for Radars

    Raytheon has received a contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to develop a transition-to-production process that will incorporate Gallium Nitride components onto existing and future AN/TPY-2 radars. The company said Friday the initial effort will also support efforts to modernize ballistic missile defense radars through the transition from Gallium Arsenide to GaN technology which will work to boost […] More

  • Navy Picks TEGAM Bond Test System for Ship, Aircraft Maintenance Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Picks TEGAM Bond Test System for Ship, Aircraft Maintenance Efforts

    TEGAM has secured $900,000 in orders from the U.S. Navy to supply portable micro-ohm and bond test equipment to help address the aircraft and ship maintenance requirements of the service branch and U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Wednesday it expects to complete deliveries of the R1L-E2A electrical bonding meter system to the Navy by the end of this year. R1L-E2A is designed to comply with ATEX, UL and CSA […] More