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  • ULA Launches NRO's National Defense Payload Aboard Atlas V Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Launches NRO’s National Defense Payload Aboard Atlas V Rocket

    United Launch Alliance has launched a national security payload into space Thursday as part of the National Reconnaissance Office‘s NROL-61 mission. The Boeing and Lockheed Martin joint venture said Thursday it launched the NROL-61 payload aboard the company-built Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Atlas V EELV 421 configuration was built to […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Adds 2 Potential Int'l Defense Customers for WorldView-4 Satellite Capacity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe Adds 2 Potential Int’l Defense Customers for WorldView-4 Satellite Capacity

    DigitalGlobe has entered into separate letters of intent with two international defense and intelligence agencies to provide the organizations access to imagery from the company’s WorldView-4 satellite. One agency is slated to become the company’s 12th Direct Access Program client under a multi-year commitment to task and receive imagery from all WorldView satellites, DigitalGlobe said Thursday. The company noted the second agency expressed interest for WorldView-4 […] More

  • Sakor to Supply AC Dynamometers for Lockheed's Aerospace Project Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sakor to Supply AC Dynamometers for Lockheed’s Aerospace Project Tests

    Sakor Technologies will deliver two AC motoring dynamometers to Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business to support the research, development, quality control and design validation of Lockheed’s aerospace projects. Sakor said Wednesday its Accudyne dynamometers are designed to test components for deep space missions, serve as independent test systems or work in a group of up to four dynamometers to test different components […] More

  • Lockheed-KAI Team Test Flies Second T-50A Trainer Aircraft; Doug Batista Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-KAI Team Test Flies Second T-50A Trainer Aircraft; Doug Batista Comments

    A team comprised of Lockheed Martin and Korea Aerospace Industries has tested a second T-50A aircraft in pursuit of the U.S. Air Force‘s T-X trainer replacement contract. “We now have two aircraft in flight test proving our upgrade and we’re nearing completion of our assembly and training operations center in Greenville, South Carolina,” Doug Batista, Lockheed’s T-50A program manager, […] More

  • Lockheed, Allied Minds Subsidiary to Seek RF Detection Tech Applications in New Markets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Allied Minds Subsidiary to Seek RF Detection Tech Applications in New Markets

    Lockheed Martin and the Allied Minds subsidiary HawkEye 360 have partnered to aid the adoption of HawkEye 360’s space-based radio frequency detection and mapping technology across new market segments. Lockheed said Tuesday the partnership will explore new applications for HawkEye 360’s RF technology as the latter awaits regulatory approvals on its plan to deploy a constellation of small satellites in low-Earth orbit. HawkEye 360’s planned […] More

  • Lockheed Gets Navy Approval for IED Countermeasure System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets Navy Approval for IED Countermeasure System

    The U.S. Navy has approved a countermeasure technology Lockheed Martin developed to help protect U.S. and coalition forces against improvised explosive devices. Lockheed said Tuesday its Symphony Block 40 platform is mounted on vehicles and designed to jam electronic trigger signals of radio-controlled IED threats. The company integrated an open architecture into the counter-IED system to provide continuous threat spectrum coverage for military users. Joe Ottaviano, […] More

  • Lockheed, 3 Universities Team Up to Chase Sandia Labs Mgmt Recompete Contract; Rick Ambrose Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, 3 Universities Team Up to Chase Sandia Labs Mgmt Recompete Contract; Rick Ambrose Comments

    Lockheed Martin has teamed up with Purdue University, New Mexico State University and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology to bid for a potential $2.9 billion contract to run the Sandia National Laboratories over a 10-year period. Each of the three universities aim to provide personnel and facilities to support Sandia’s research and development of nuclear deterrence, cybersecurity, energy, […] More

  • Greece, Lockheed, HAI Start P-3B Maritime Patrol Aircraft Modernization Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Greece, Lockheed, HAI Start P-3B Maritime Patrol Aircraft Modernization Program

    Lockheed Martin, the Greek navy and Hellenic Aerospace Industry have officially launched Greece’s P-3B Orion maritime surveillance aircraft modernization program at a ceremony held Monday at an HAI facility in Athens. The event was attended by representatives from the Greek defense ministry, national defense general staff, navy, air force and general directorate for defense investment and armament as well as leaders from the U.S. Embassy […] More

  • Lockheed Partners With 2 Universities to Support Qatar's Cybersecurity Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Partners With 2 Universities to Support Qatar’s Cybersecurity Efforts

    Lockheed Martin has partnered with Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar and the University of Patras in Greece to help the Qatari government develop a framework to address cybersecurity challenges, BQ Magazine reported Sunday. The magazine reports the partnership was unveiled during the 1st International Cyber Security Technologies Roundtable event where professionals from the academic and commercial sectors discussed cybersecurity […] More

  • ULA-Ball Aerospace-Space Foundation Team Launches Student, Intern-Built Rockets & Payloads - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA-Ball Aerospace-Space Foundation Team Launches Student, Intern-Built Rockets & Payloads

    United Launch Alliance, Ball Aerospace and the Space Foundation have sponsored the launch of two rockets built by ULA interns with payloads that Ball interns and Colorado K-12 students created. ULA — a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin — said Sunday the event included efforts to launch the 50-foot-tall Future Heavy and 10-foot-tall Genesis rockets to simulate real-life missions and encourage students to pursue careers […] More

  • Lockheed Conducts Surface-Launched Anti-Ship Missile Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Conducts Surface-Launched Anti-Ship Missile Test

    Lockheed Martin has conducted a new flight test of the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile‘s surface-launch variant with the MK 41 vertical launch system aboard the U.S. Navy‘s Self Defense Test Ship. The company said Thursday the surface-launched LRASM worked to load mission data through the modified Tactical Tomahawk Weapon Control System, align mission data with the moving ship and launch from […] More

  • Lockheed, Submergence Group Partner for USSOCOM Combat Submersible Production; Erika Marshall Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Submergence Group Partner for USSOCOM Combat Submersible Production; Erika Marshall Comments

    Lockheed Martin has partnered with Submergence Group to build, integrate and test three undersea transport vehicles for the U.S. Special Operations Command. The companies will collaborate to produce Dry Combat Submersibles under a potential five-year, $166 million contract awarded by USSOCOM, Lockheed said Thursday. Erika Marshall, general manager and program director at Lockheed’s Palm Beach site, said the DCS vehicles […] More