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  • Lockheed Hands 2,000th Air Force JASSM Missile; Jason Denney Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Hands 2,000th Air Force JASSM Missile; Jason Denney Comments

    Lockheed Martin has built and delivered its 2,000th Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile  system to the U.S. Air Force under the company’s lot 12 production contract. The company said Tuesday it began work on batch 12 of baseline JASSM cruise missiles and JASSM-Extended Range missiles in January. Jason Denney, program director of long-range strike systems at Lockheed’s missiles and fire control business, said that U.S. […] More

  • Lockheed, Warsaw University of Technology Partner to Demo UAV Optimization Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Warsaw University of Technology Partner to Demo UAV Optimization Tools

    Lockheed Martin and Poland-based Warsaw University of Technology have jointly demonstrated unmanned aerial vehicle optimization technologies through aerial command and control of multiple UAVs. Lockheed said Friday the demonstration builds on a joint applied research effort between the company and the university that seeks to modernize various aircraft fleets as well as identify C2 concepts for manned and unmanned airborne […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Conducts Test on Jettison Motor for NASA Orion Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Conducts Test on Jettison Motor for NASA Orion Spacecraft

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has tested a third development jettison motor built to support the launch abort system of NASA‘s Orion spacecraft at the company’s Rancho Cordova, California facility. The company said Wednesday its jettison motor will be integrated alongside an attitude control and abort motor on the spacecraft’s next test flight called Exploration Mission-1 which covers travel of about 40,000 miles beyond the moon and return to […] More

  • NASA to Launch Lockheed-Built Spacecraft for Asteroid Sample Return Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Launch Lockheed-Built Spacecraft for Asteroid Sample Return Mission

    A Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft is scheduled for liftoff on Sept. 8 from Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket as part of a NASA  mission to survey a near-Earth asteroid and return a sample back home. Lockheed said the University of Arizona will lead the space agency’s seven-year Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer mission that aims to explore […] More

  • Lockheed Taps Microsemi to Produce Master Reference Oscillator for Air Force Infrared Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Taps Microsemi to Produce Master Reference Oscillator for Air Force Infrared Satellites

    Lockheed Martin has chosen Microsemi to supply master reference oscillators for integration into the next two Space Based Infrared System satellites for the U.S. Air Force. Microsemi said Wednesday it will start to deliver production models of the company’s master reference oscillators that include discrete devices and radiation-tolerant field programmable gate arrays to Lockheed, the SBIRS’ prime contractor, in late 2016. SBIRS is […] More

  • Army Picks Okland Construction to Build F-35 Operations, Maintenance Hangar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Picks Okland Construction to Build F-35 Operations, Maintenance Hangar

    Okland Construction has won a potential $24 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army to design and build an F-35 operations, maintenance, administration and six-position maintenance hangar facility. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers received 10 bids for the project through an online-based solicitation and obligated the full contract amount at the time of award from fiscal 2016 military […] More

  • Lockheed Relocates NOAA Geostationary Weather Satellite to Florida Space Operations Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Relocates NOAA Geostationary Weather Satellite to Florida Space Operations Facility

    Lockheed Martin has transported the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Geostationary weather satellite aboard a U.S. Air Force C-5M Super Galaxy cargo transport plane to the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Florida. Lockheed said Tuesday the first of four Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series weather satellites are designed to help forecasters collect and analyze data on weather conditions across North America. “Our […] More

  • Navy Selects Lockheed-Developed Open Architecture Combat Mgmt System for Frigate Ships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Selects Lockheed-Developed Open Architecture Combat Mgmt System for Frigate Ships

    The U.S. Navy has selected a Lockheed Martin-developed open architecture combat management system for the service branch’s frigate ship program under a six-year, $79.5 million contract. Lockheed said Tuesday the Component-Based Total-Ship System-21st Century combat management platform is based on the Aegis Common Source Library and is currently operational on Freedom-variant littoral combat ships. “We look forward to providing […] More

  • Air Force Taps Lockheed for Phase 2 System-of-Systems Architecture R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Lockheed for Phase 2 System-of-Systems Architecture R&D Contract

    Lockheed Martin has secured a $36.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to perform research and development work under the second phase of the service branch’s System of Systems Integration Technology and Experimentation program. The Defense Department said Tuesday Lockheed’s aeronautics segment will develop architectures intended to help the Air Force meet air superiority goals in contested environments as well […] More

  • CRN: Australia's Defense Dept Orders 100K Dell Desktops - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CRN: Australia’s Defense Dept Orders 100K Dell Desktops

    Dell‘s Australia-based business unit has received a two-year, $56.9 million contract from that country’s defense department to deliver than 100,000 desktops across the military as part of a large-scale computer supply project, CRN reported Tuesday. Steven Kiernan writes the desktop units will run both Windows 7 and Windows 10 operating systems to support the project that aims […] More

  • Lockheed to Integrate Cambridge Pixel Software Into UK's Naval Surveillance Radar System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Integrate Cambridge Pixel Software Into UK’s Naval Surveillance Radar System

    Lockheed Martin has selected Cambridge Pixel to build software modules for a navigation radar system that Lockheed will integrate with more than 60 platforms of the U.K. navy under a $57.9 million contract with the country’s defense ministry. Cambridge Pixel said Wednesday its software modules will be integrated into the Lockheed-built Naval Vigilance Radar system to facilitate radar scan conversion, target tracking and radar fusion. […] More