Releases
Releases
In this section of the Lockheed Martin Newsroom, you'll find our news releases. The releases are listed in chronological order and are archived by year.
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Dec 3, 2010Team Receives MDA's Final Request for Proposal; Additional Companies Join Team
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced today that the Lockheed Martin-Raytheon team competing for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Development and Sustainment Contract has received the...
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Dec 2, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has signed a contract with the Republic of Korea to provide the nation four C-130J Super Hercules aircraft. Korea's new Super Hercules will be the longer fuselage or...
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Dec 1, 2010
What: The nation's third Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the future USS Fort Worth, will be christened and launched. When: 10 a.m., Saturday, December 4, 2010 Media should arrive by 9:30 a.m. for...
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Dec 1, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced that Brad Hicks joined its Mission Systems and Sensors (MS2) business. MS2, based in Washington, D.C., is part of the Electronic Systems business area and has...
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Nov 23, 2010
Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) today announced that it has completed the divestiture of its Enterprise Integration Group (EIG) business to Veritas Capital for $815 million in cash. As...
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Nov 22, 2010
Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) will webcast live a presentation by Bruce Tanner, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Ralph Heath, Executive Vice President Aeronautics...
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Nov 22, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) scored a hit on a main battle tank at six kilometers in a company-funded, multiple-mission firing of its Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM). The complex flight test at...
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Nov 22, 2010
The U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $4.4 million contract modification to advance the design for an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) pilot...
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Nov 19, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $3.5 billion contract modification from the U.S. Department of Defense to manufacture 31 F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters in the fourth lot of low-rate...
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Nov 18, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) submitted its proposal today for the next phase of Space Fence, a program that will revamp the way the U.S. Air Force identifies and tracks objects in space. Space...
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Nov 18, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) today announced that it will close its Eagan, Minn., facility by 2013 and move manufacturing work from its Middle River, Md., site by the end of 2011. The decisions,...
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Nov 16, 2010
Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile - Extended Range (JASSM-ER) recently flew two successful test flights at White Sands Missile Range, NM, increasing the program's...
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Nov 15, 2010
The fundamental building block for all future avionics software on the Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter has entered flight testing on an F-35 test jet. "Block 1," the...
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Nov 12, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) submitted its proposal today to the U.S. Missile Defense Agency for the concept definition and program planning contract for the Next-Generation Aegis Missile. The...
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Nov 11, 2010Contract Includes Production of One Aegis System and Materials for Two More
The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $97M contract for the production of the Aegis Weapon System for the DDG-113 destroyer, plus advanced procurement funding for two additional...
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Nov 9, 2010Data Exchange Will Help Emergency Responders Share Critical Information Across Maryland County Lines
Emergency responders and county governments will now be able to look for and share critical geospatial information and maps across Montgomery, Frederick and Prince George's Counties thanks to a...
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Nov 4, 2010
All systems are nominal aboard the BSAT-3b broadcasting satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) for Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) of Japan. The satellite...
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Nov 1, 2010Data from more than 165 million forms processed and delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau
With the completion of the 2010 Census forms processing operation in September, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) made its final set of deliveries for the population count—which included data from...
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Nov 1, 2010
The Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) F-22 Raptor performed its precision aerobatics at the Fort Worth Alliance Air Show Oct. 30-31, marking the first time the aircraft has demonstrated its aerial...
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Nov 1, 2010
The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $65 million contract to continue modernization of the Apache helicopter's Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision...
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Nov 1, 2010Tool Enables Dynamic Planning of Military Communications Network Resources
A tactical network planner developed by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been upgraded to better address the significant battlefield challenges of sharing data; interoperating; managing networks,...
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Oct 29, 2010Company wins $65 million task order to continue IT support worldwide
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is set to surpass the two decade milestone of information technology support to the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command (AMC) Directorate of Logistics with the recent...
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Oct 28, 2010This test marks the 21st successful ballistic missile intercept by the Aegis BMD system
JS Kirishima, Japan's fourth destroyer equipped with Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system, successfully intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile target...
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Oct 28, 2010
The BSAT-3b broadcasting satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) for Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) of Japan, was successfully launched today from Kourou,...
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Oct 28, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has completed Intersegment System Testing (IST) of the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite at the company's facilities in...
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Oct 28, 2010DRRS-A is One-Stop Shop for Army Readiness Data
The Department of Defense and the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) have selected Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to receive one of the Top 5 DoD Program Awards given annually for...
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Oct 27, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) recently began laboratory testing of an improved next-generation design of its HULC™ advanced robotic exoskeleton. The testing brings HULC a step closer to readiness...
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Oct 27, 2010First Flight of a Penetrating Synthetic Aperture Radar on a Fixed Wing Unmanned System
A milestone has been achieved, the first flight of Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Tactical Reconnaissance and Counter-Concealment-Enabled Radar (TRACER) aboard an MQ-9 Unmanned Aerial System. The...
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Oct 27, 2010Lockheed Martin builds on strength of VCE's pre-integrated, proven technologies from Cisco, EMC and VMware to reduce infrastructure costs and risk
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) today announced a secure mission-ready, turnkey private cloud solution for federal, state and local government agencies, and private sector organizations. The...
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Oct 26, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has developed a ruggedized tablet computer for use in tactical vehicles. The TacFleet 8 allows real-world tactical situational awareness exchanges for brigade-and-below...
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Oct 26, 2010Team Includes Deputy Program Manager from Raytheon and Additional GMD OEMs Orbital and Northrop Grumman
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced today that it has taken the next steps toward assuring continuity for Army war fighters, as its team prepares to bid for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's...
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Oct 26, 2010
The BSAT-3b broadcasting satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) for the Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) of Japan, is ready for liftoff on Oct. 28 aboard an...
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Oct 26, 2010
The U.S. Army recently deployed the first Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) Enhanced AN/TPQ-36 (EQ-36) counterfire target acquisition radar systems in Iraq and Afghanistan. A new advanced radar for the...
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Oct 25, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received delivery orders totaling $138 million from the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command Acquisition Center for 200 new systems, support services and...
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Oct 25, 2010Technical development and Web service capabilities to be integrated
The U.S. Army's PM Battle Command recently awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) two task orders valued at $66 million for integration of technical development and Web service capabilities for a...
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Oct 25, 2010Effort Marks First Aircraft Platform to Receive AMF JTRS Software Defined Radios
Military users from the Army, Air Force and Navy will be one step closer to realizing secure Internet Protocol based networking as the Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) team begins integration...
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Oct 25, 2010Contract will Create First National Air Traffic Management System in Republic of Kazakhstan
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) today signed a $49.9 million contract with Kazaeronavigatsia RSE, the air navigation service provider in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Lockheed Martin has been contracted...
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Oct 25, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) recently delivered the first two intra-fire unit communications hardware components for the tri-national Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS). The two Message...
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Oct 25, 2010
Lockheed Martin's Squad Mission Support System (SMSS™) autonomous vehicle will demonstrate its rugged maneuverability while meeting Soldiers' needs to recharge batteries in Portable Power...
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Oct 25, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and ARINC Incorporated have teamed to provide the U.S. Air Force with a new deployable radar system designed to rapidly establish airfield operations anywhere in the...
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Oct 25, 2010
Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) announced that its Board of Directors has approved a new share repurchase program of up to $3 billion. Through Sept. 26, 2010, Lockheed Martin had...
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Oct 21, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Kaman Aerospace Corporation, a subsidiary of Kaman Corporation (Nasdaq: KAMN), have formally offered the K-MAX® unmanned helicopter in response to a U.S. Naval Air...
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Oct 20, 2010Open ADR-based architecture enhances utilities' demand response & grid management options
Tendril, a leading energy management technology provider and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) today announced they will be working to integrate Lockheed Martin's SEEload™ Demand Response Management...
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Oct 20, 2010
The U.S. Air Force selected Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) as the winner of the 60 percent share of the Advanced Targeting Pod-Sensor Enhancement (ATP-SE) competition. Lockheed Martin's Sniper® pod...
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Oct 20, 2010
Prepar3D™, Lockheed Martin's professional training and simulation software, will be available for purchase starting Nov. 1 on www.prepar3D.com for $499 per licensed copy. Lockheed Martin (NYSE:...
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Oct 20, 2010Task order, cost-plus-fee contract carries potential $1.4 billion value across 10-year period
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been selected by the Federal Aviation Administration to lead its latest performance-based contract – the National Airspace System Integration Support Contract...
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Oct 20, 2010
The U.S. Air Force has approved Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) preliminary design for its next-generation mobile, long-range surveillance and ballistic missile defense radar. The Three-Dimensional...
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Oct 19, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will present a variety of program briefings for members of the media at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The AUSA...
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Oct 19, 2010- Third quarter net sales of $11.4 billion
Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) today reported third quarter 2010 net sales of $11.4 billion, a 6 percent increase over the $10.8 billion in 2009. Earnings from continuing operations for...
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Oct 14, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is hosting a media event with U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Wednesday, Oct. 27, as part of the 23rd annual P-3 International Operators Support Conference (IOSC)...
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Oct 14, 2010Workshops offer individually-focused intelligence analysis training
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced today that coursework offered through its Center for Security Analysis has been evaluated and recommended for college credit by American Military University...
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Oct 14, 2010Automated Signal Processing Capabilities Will Increase Undersea Situational Awareness
Advanced acoustic processing and tracking capabilities provided by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will enhance underwater surveillance and help increase situational awareness for the U.S. Navy fleet....
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Oct 13, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) successfully identified and tracked a target using its Multi-Mission Signal Processor for the U.S. Navy's Aegis system. This is the third test in a series of scheduled...
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Oct 13, 2010Students Will Learn About Cyber Threats, Technologies and Careers
Tomorrow's cyber security leaders will learn about cyber security awareness, technologies and careers at Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Cyber Security Awareness Day. Co-hosted today by the...
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Oct 13, 2010
Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Enterprise Integration Group (EIG) business to Veritas Capital for $815 million...
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Oct 12, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will webcast live its Third Quarter 2010 Earnings Conference Call on Tues., Oct. 19, at 11:00 a.m. ET. Bob Stevens, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bruce Tanner,...
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Oct 12, 2010Opportunity to provide detailed analysis of critical threats to our nation's security and integrate cyber security paradigms
A team led by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) was selected by the US Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) to compete for future task orders under the INSCOM OMNIBUS-III contracting vehicle....
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Oct 12, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has named Howard Yellen Vice President of Special Operations Support Contractor Logistics Support Services (SOF CLSS). His primary responsibility is executing a 10-year...
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Oct 11, 2010"Trusted Manager" Allows Secure Sharing of Sensitive Information Between Multiple Users
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced that its Trusted Manager system, a secure Multi-Level Information Sharing technology used by the Department of Defense, has been added to the Unified Cross...
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Oct 8, 2010
Lockheed Martin Corp. [NYSE: LMT] has made a gift to support Challenge Air for Kids & Friends (Challenge Air), an organization that seeks to build the self-esteem and confidence of children and...
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Oct 7, 2010
Following the Israeli Government decision to select the Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) F-35 Lightning II as the Israel Air Force's next-generation fighter aircraft, Israeli Ministry of Defense...
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Oct 6, 2010
For the thirteenth consecutive year, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading sponsor of "The Year In Space" Desk Calendar, featuring images and information from the past, present and future of...
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Oct 6, 2010
Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Missiles and Fire Control business has been named one of America's Safest Companies by EHS Today magazine. Only 12 companies across the United States were chosen for...
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Oct 6, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced today that it has received a $106 million engineering, manufacturing and development contract from Northrop Grumman Corporation to develop the next-generation...
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Oct 5, 2010Lockheed Martin-Built Spacecraft will be Next Orbiter at Mars
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) project passed its Mission Confirmation Review on Oct. 4. As a result, NASA has given approval for the development and 2013 launch of the...
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Oct 4, 2010Next-Generation GeoEye-2 Satellite Prepares for Preliminary Design Review
IKONOS, the world's first commercial, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and currently operated by GeoEye, Inc. (Nasdaq: GEOY), has achieved...
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Oct 1, 2010
The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $119 million contract to demonstrate its conceptual designs for the Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) intended to upgrade the Navy's future...
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Sep 30, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has won a position on a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) contract that will expand IT services across the CDC and its affiliated groups. The...
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Sep 30, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Danish environmental and engineering consulting company COWI today announced an agreement to explore opportunities to help countries reduce energy costs and...
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Sep 30, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) completed delivery of the first production C-5M Super Galaxy at a ceremony here today with officials from Air Mobility Command, Air Force Material Command and Dover Air...
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Sep 30, 2010
After 37 years and 136 tanks delivered, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) production of the Space Shuttle External Tank (ET) has come to an end at the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The...
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Sep 29, 2010J6 Director Lt. General Dennis Via Speaks at Monday Lunch
U.S. Army Lieutenant General Dennis L. Via, director of command, control, communications and computer (C4) systems (J6), the Joint Staff, will be the luncheon speaker at MILCOM 2010 on Monday,...
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Sep 28, 2010Lockheed Martin Receives $356 Million Contract Option for Automated Flight Service Stations Contract
Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT) has been granted a $356 million, three-year contract option by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), enabling Lockheed Martin to continue serving the general...
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Sep 27, 2010
The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) battle management capability successfully demonstrated interoperability with the NATO Air Command and Control System (ACCS) during a Joint Project...
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Sep 23, 2010
Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Board of Directors today named Patrick M. Dewar, 49, as the corporation's new senior vice president, Corporate Strategy and Business Development, effective Oct. 1....
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Sep 23, 2010
Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a fourth quarter 2010 dividend of $0.75 per-share. This is the eighth consecutive annual increase...
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Sep 22, 2010
The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program has presented a required life cycle cost estimate to the three partner nations that proves the MEADS system design will significantly reduce...
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Sep 22, 2010New, Fast Sample-to-Answer DNA Analysis Platform Previewed at 2010 Biometric Consortium Conference
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and ZyGEM Corp. Ltd. today are unveiling a new DNA analysis system that has potential to transform how law enforcement, homeland security and defense communities use...
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Sep 21, 2010
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) delivered the 1,000th Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile to the U.S. Army last week during a ceremony at its state-of-the-art PAC-3 Missile production...
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Sep 21, 2010
The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $10 million contract to develop software that will enable MH-60R and MH-60S multi-mission helicopter aircrews the latest technology to pre-plan...
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Sep 21, 2010Production Operations Now Under Way at Kennedy Space Center
Preparations for Orion's first mission in 2013 are well under way as a Lockheed Martin-led crew begins lean assembly pathfinding operations for the spacecraft. The crew is conducting simulated...
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Sep 20, 2010Early Delivery of Radio Allows for Risk Reduction in Testing
A developmental radio for a revolutionary Internet-Protocol tactical communications network has been delivered ahead of schedule to the U.S. Army AH-64D Integration Team. The Lockheed Martin...
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Sep 16, 2010"PC on a Stick" Offers Innovative Technology for Smart, Secure Teleworking
Lockheed Martin has joined the Telework Exchange in support of their mission to expand and improve telework options for government agencies and employees. The Corporation's award-winning...
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Sep 16, 2010Corporation Continues 21-Year Partnership in Developing IT Solutions that Serve Millions of American Citizens
Lockheed Martin has won a role on a new $2.8 billion, seven-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide information technology solutions to the Social Security...
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Sep 16, 2010
Lockheed Martin recently demonstrated the second generation of its Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) capability in a formal U.S. Navy test event. This configuration, known as Aegis BMD 4.0.1,...
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Sep 15, 2010
The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program has completed an extensive series of Critical Design Review (CDR) events with a Summary CDR at MEADS International in Orlando, FL. The...
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Sep 15, 2010
The Lockheed Martin -led industry team submitted its final proposal revision for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) fiscal year 2010-2014 contract to the U.S. Navy today. Lockheed Martin is one of two...
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Sep 15, 2010Team is Executing Transition Milestones
The Lockheed Martin Australia Pty Limited-led team has reached agreement with the Australian Tax Office on the contract to provide End User computing hardware, services and support. With the...
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Sep 14, 2010
The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin a $14 million contract to design, develop, build and test a first-of-its-kind high power fiber laser-based system suitable for military applications. The Army...
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Sep 13, 2010.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $13 million contract to upgrade the Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod's (ATP) existing data link with an enhanced digital Compact Multi-band Data Link...
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Sep 13, 2010Streaming Video, Imagery and Electronic Intelligence Sent to Ground Receiving Station
A flying ISR laboratory developed by Lockheed Martin recently demonstrated advanced capabilities to disseminate real-time intelligence data, including streaming video, imagery and communications...
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Sep 13, 2010
A groundbreaking cryogenic titanium machining process, planned for use in the production of Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter, will make its public debut at the International...
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Sep 10, 2010
Lockheed Martin will present a variety of program briefings for members of the media at the Air Force Association's Air and Space Conference & Technology Exposition 2010 at the Gaylord National...
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Sep 9, 2010
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) awarded Lockheed Martin and Whiting Turner a $15 million contract to install a biomass steam-generation system to produce heat and power. The VA...
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Sep 9, 2010
The U.S. Navy, supported by Lockheed Martin , successfully completed Combat System Ship Qualification Trials for upgraded Aegis Combat Systems installed aboard two Navy ships. The Navy determined...
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Sep 8, 2010Hundreds of executives apply for early-exit incentives
Lockheed Martin Corporation today announced the results of a program begun in July to lower overhead and improve affordability by reducing the number of leaders at the vice president and director...
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Sep 8, 2010
The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT]-led industry team recently reached the 60-percent completion mark in the construction of the nation's third Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). LCS 3, named Fort Worth,...
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Sep 8, 2010Corporation Announces Continued Support for Successful India Innovation Growth Program
Lockheed Martin is announcing its extended support for the landmark India Innovation Growth Program, which boosts Indian technical breakthroughs by helping transition them to market. In...
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Sep 7, 2010Joanne Maguire Becomes First Woman to Receive Prestigious International Von Karman Wings Award
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has presented its 2010 International von Karman Wings Award to Joanne Maguire, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company,...
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Sep 1, 2010
An independently led team has rated Lockheed Martin Aeronautics at Maturity Level 3 against the Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development, or CMMI-DEV version 1.2, following an...