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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May 26, 2010
The immense volume of data generated by the suite of instruments on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) requires new tools for efficient identifying and accessing data that is most relevant to...
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May 26, 2010
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Lockheed Martin a $3.93 million contract to develop a rifle-scope attachment to enhance soldiers' marksmanship capabilities. The...
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May 24, 2010New-Generation Protected Military Communications Satellite Scheduled to Launch July 2010
Lockheed Martin has delivered the first satellite in the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., where it will be prepared for a July 30 liftoff...
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May 24, 2010
Lockheed Martin has developed a new push-vehicle capability for its automated convoy program that will save lives in the fight against convoy ambush and IED attacks. The Convoy Active Safety...
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May 24, 2010
Lockheed Martin Corporation today announced the expiration of its offer to exchange any and all of its outstanding debt securities listed in the table below (the "old notes") for a new series of...
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May 24, 2010Team to Provide Special Mission Capability
Lockheed Martin announced today that it has been awarded a four-year contract to supply the Finnish Air Force with an airborne surveillance system and associated ground systems. The value of this...
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May 20, 2010
Lockheed Martin has pledged to donate $1 million to the Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST), an open-enrollment public school serving middle and high school students in Denver, Colo....
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May 20, 2010
Lockheed Martin Space Systems has aligned its Commercial Space Systems unit within the company's Global Communications Systems business, a new organizational structure designed to enhance...
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May 20, 2010
Lockheed Martin has signed a $40 million foreign military sales contract to deliver Sniper Advanced Targeting Pods (ATPs) to the Royal Saudi Air Force. This is the second Sniper ATP purchase in a...
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May 19, 2010Provides loan capital to lowest-income entrepreneurs and support for Haiti recovery efforts
FINCA microfinance clients living in some of the most poverty-stricken countries in the world will benefit from a $30,000 grant from Lockheed Martin. Funding will provide much-needed loan capital...
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May 19, 2010Corporation to Support NRC's Integrated Source Management Portfolio
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has awarded Lockheed Martin a 10-year, $77.4 million contract to provide secure software tools to manage data on radioactive materials, including transactions...
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May 17, 2010
Two Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters flew nonstop from their final-assembly site in Fort Worth, Texas, to Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., today, signaling a further expansion of...
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May 17, 2010
Lockheed Martin has released its new Prepar3D (TM) software that enables rapid creation of medium-fidelity simulations for training exercises. The Prepar3D (TM) (pronounced "prepared") software...
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May 14, 2010Innovative Solutions and Processes Leveraged to Support Intelligence Community Customers
A team led by Lockheed Martin was selected by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to compete for future task orders under the DIA Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise (SITE)...
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May 14, 2010HONORING AMERICA'S GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT IN AERONAUTICS OR ASTRONAUTICS
The 2009 Robert J. Collier Trophy has been presented to NASA and the International Space Station Team by the National Aeronautic Association. The Collier Trophy is awarded annually "for the...
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May 13, 2010
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II program has been recognized for its "cutting-edge design and technology" with an award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). The...
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May 13, 2010Efforts Underway to Build New, Web-Based Infrastructure for Wanted Persons Database
The Lockheed Martin -led Next Generation Identification (NGI) team is beginning to fully develop and deploy a new NGI system capability that transforms how law enforcement officials search an FBI...
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May 11, 2010
Lockheed Martin completed deliveries of the four C130Js ordered by the Royal Norwegian Air Force at a ceremony here today with U.S. and Norwegian officials. Lockheed Martin received a contract...
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May 11, 2010
Lockheed Martin announced that it has received additional contract options that increase the quantity of equipment being produced for the Airborne, Maritime/Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio...
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May 11, 2010
Lockheed Martin announced today the award of a contract by Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) of Vietnam to build the VINASAT-2 satellite. In-orbit delivery is slated for the second...
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May 10, 2010Subsequent Tenders to Receive Total Exchange Consideration
Lockheed Martin Corporation today announced early results of its offer to exchange any and all of its outstanding debt securities listed in the table below (the "old notes") for a new series of...
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May 6, 2010Metron Aviation, Sensis Key Team Members
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract to develop and implement the Time Based Flow Management (TBFM) program for the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of System Operations Programs....
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May 6, 2010
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $3.5 million contract to develop the Integrated Smart-BEAR Power System (ISBPS) for the U.S. Air Force. The Basic Expeditionary Airfield Resources (BEAR) program...
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May 6, 2010Orion Launch Abort System Tests the Limits of New Technologies
Within 97 seconds of an initial 500,000-pound blast of solid rocket motor thrust, Orion completed its first successful flight test of the launch abort system at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile...
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May 5, 2010President's Volunteer Service Awards Presented to Lockheed Martin employees during National Volunteer Week
President Obama's 2009 President's Volunteer Service Awards were presented to 4,578 outstanding volunteers by Lockheed Martin leaders during National Volunteer Week (April 18-24, 2010). The awards...
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May 5, 2010
Lockheed Martin has successfully completed an extensive series of wind tunnel tests of its Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) system. The tests simulated the flight environments of the Navy's...
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May 4, 2010
Kaman Aerospace Corporation, a subsidiary of Kaman Corporation (Nasdaq GS: KAMN), has proven in recent tests that the unmanned K-MAX helicopter can resupply troops with cargo airdropped by parachute.
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May 4, 2010LM Team will Implement a Solution to Better Maintain, Repair and Track Equipment Used in Support of the National Airspace System
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded Lockheed Martin a five-year, $28-million contract to design and integrate a supply chain software platform that supports operations to...
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May 3, 2010
Reflecting a need to prepare for anticipated growth and to meet the future operational needs of its key aircraft programs, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics today announced new assignments for three key...
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Apr 29, 2010
A Lockheed Martin F-16 demonstrated enhanced networked-enabled capabilities during the U.S. Air Force's Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment 2010 (JEFX 10), April 13-23, at Nellis Air Force Base,...
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Apr 29, 2010
Lockheed Martin has delivered a cutting-edge communications system module for the second satellite in the U.S. Navy's Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) program. Supporting ultra-high frequency...
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Apr 27, 2010
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2010 - Lockheed Martin will present a number of program briefings for members of the media during the Navy League Sea-Air-Space Exposition May 3-5, 2010. Journalists may sign...
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Apr 27, 2010
Lockheed Martin marked the delivery of the 10,000th Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rocket during a ceremony held at its Camden, AR, facility today. GMLRS is an all-weather, precision...
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Apr 27, 2010
The U.S. Army Applied Aviation Technology Directorate has awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.5 million contract that continues development of the Kinetic Energy Net (KEN) armor design. KEN is a modular...
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Apr 26, 2010
Lockheed Martin Corporation today announced the commencement of an offer to exchange any and all of its outstanding debt securities listed in the table below (the "old notes") for a new series of...
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Apr 26, 2010
Lockheed Martin , jointly with Magestic Systems, Inc. (MSI) and Nikon Metrology, has won a first-place JEC Innovation Award in composites manufacturing for technology used in the production of the...
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Apr 26, 2010
Lockheed Martin will recognize 18 small businesses from across the United States for their outstanding support of the Corporation's business units in Orlando, FL, and Dallas, TX, at an awards...
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Apr 22, 2010
Lockheed Martin has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, with initial funding of $25.7 million, to provide support for the U.S. Army's fielding of the Terminal...
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Apr 22, 2010
Lockheed Martin Corporation today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a second quarter 2010 dividend of $0.63 per share. The dividend is payable June 25, 2010 to holders of record...
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Apr 22, 2010
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST), built and integrated at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems facility in Sunnyvale, was launched 20 years ago aboard Space Shuttle Discovery, on April 24, 1990,...
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Apr 22, 2010
Lockheed Martin today opened its doors in Huntsville and Courtland, Ala., to students, aged six to 18 years, for the company's annual Young Minds at Work Day. Approximately 170 students in...
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Apr 22, 2010
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company today opened its doors to students, aged six to 18 years, for the company's annual Young Minds at Work Day. A total of approximately 4,000 students are...
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Apr 22, 2010NSA, Service Academy Experts Test Advanced Tactics and Technologies for Cyber Security
Teams of cyber security experts from the National Security Agency and the nation's service academies are squaring off this week in one of the nation's most expansive and sophisticated cyber "war...
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Apr 22, 2010
Spectacular "first light" images and data from the three state-of-the art instruments on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) were unveiled yesterday morning by NASA. The SDO spacecraft was...
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Apr 21, 2010- First quarter net sales of $10.6 billion - First quarter net earnings of $547 million - Generated $1.6 billion in cash from operations for the quarter - Increases outlook for 2010 cash from operations; decreases outlook for net earnings per share - Repurchased 6.5 million shares
Lockheed Martin Corporation today reported first quarter 2010 net sales of $10.6 billion, a 3% increase over the $10.4 billion in 2009. Net earnings for the first quarter of 2010 were $547...
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Apr 20, 2010
The seventh Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II flight test aircraft took to the skies for the first time today, with the overall objective of validating the F-35A conventional takeoff and landing...
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Apr 20, 2010Logistics and Sustainment Work Will Reinforce Missions Around the Globe
Lockheed Martin will provide equipment support, inventory management and fielding team support to the U.S. Marine Corps System Command, through a new task order with initial funding of...
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Apr 20, 2010White Paper Reveals Awareness, Trust and Security to Shape Cloud Adoption
Lockheed Martin and its Cyber Security Alliance partners today announced the results of a collaborative cloud computing and cyber security survey in a new white paper titled "Awareness, Trust, and...
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Apr 19, 2010
Lockheed Martin rolled out the first of a new fleet of HC-130J combat rescue tankers for the U.S. Air Force's Air Combat Command (ACC) during a ceremony here today. Maj. Gen. Thomas K. Andersen,...
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Apr 19, 2010
The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force's next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite, known as GPS III, continues to maintain schedule performance and meet or exceed...
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Apr 16, 2010
At ceremonies today in Abilene, Texas, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz delivered the first of 28 Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules airlifters to the 317th Airlift Group at...
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Apr 15, 2010
Lockheed Martin today delivered the first two of seven operational Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV), and one companion trailer, to the U.S. Army and Marine Corps for Technology Development...
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Apr 15, 2010C2BMC Supports Real-World Operations 24-7 in 17 Time Zones
The Command, Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program was awarded a two-year, $424 million contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to continue integration of...
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Apr 14, 2010
Lockheed Martin will webcast live its First Quarter 2010 Earnings Conference Call on Wednesday, April 21, 2010, at 9:00 a.m. EDT. Bob Stevens, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bruce Tanner,...
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Apr 14, 2010Soldier and Family Assistance Center Will Provide Resources for Transitioning Warfighters
Lockheed Martin today announced a partnership with the Fort Meade Alliance and the USO of Metropolitan Washington to outfit the Fort Meade Soldier and Family Assistance Center, which breaks ground...
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Apr 14, 2010New-Generation Military Communications Satellite Ready For Delivery To Support Mid-2010 Launch
Lockheed Martin has completed all factory testing of the first satellite in the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program and the spacecraft is ready for delivery to Cape Canaveral Air...
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Apr 14, 2010Podded Reconnaissance Radar Design Acceptable for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
A synthetic aperture radar system with the capability to operate in all types of weather, day or night, is one step closer to providing warfighters with high resolution reconnaissance imagery. A...
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Apr 13, 2010
Lockheed Martin's Joint Air-To-Ground Missile (JAGM) team has successfully completed an extensive series of static, tower-based and captive-carry flight tests of its tri-mode seeker in a limited...
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Apr 13, 2010
Lockheed Martin will deliver a long-range air surveillance radar system to the United Kingdom that overcomes sensor performance issues commonly caused by the rotating blades of wind turbines. The...
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Apr 13, 2010
The Lockheed Martin Corp. announced today a pledge of $4 million to benefit the UCLA Health System's Operation Mend program, which provides reconstructive surgeries and other health care needs to...
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Apr 13, 2010Space Foundation Honors Hubble Servicing Mission Team That Extended Life of the Orbiting Observatory
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST), built and integrated at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems facility in Sunnyvale, was launched 20 years ago aboard Space Shuttle Discovery, on April 24, 1990,...
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Apr 12, 2010
The Lockheed Martin -led industry team submitted its proposal for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) fiscal year 2010-2014 contract to the U.S. Navy today. Lockheed Martin is one of two industry teams...
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Apr 12, 2010
Lockheed Martin's Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) program team has delivered its 1,000th missile to the U.S. Air Force. The missile was completed as part of the seventh production...
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Apr 12, 2010
Lockheed Martin will host its first virtual supplier conference today, with approximately 8,000 representatives from suppliers to Lockheed Martin participating via live Webcast. The virtual...
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Apr 12, 2010
Lockheed Martin successfully identified and tracked numerous live targets for the first time using its new Multi-Mission Signal Processor (MMSP). The MMSP is intended to help combine...
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Apr 9, 2010Birthplace of nanotechnology to host gala, symposium, sculpture garden
Lockheed Martin and Rice University are celebrating the 25th anniversary of a breakthrough that has advanced technology in fields from medicine to baseball. Lockheed Martin is sponsoring the Year...
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Apr 8, 2010
Lockheed Martin's multi-purpose AGM114R HELLFIRE II missile scored another success in its second proof-of-principle (POP) flight test, the first armed with a live warhead. The Rmodel, or "Romeo"...
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Apr 8, 2010
Lockheed Martin today announced new green initiatives to reach its 140,000 employees, their families and communities. The orchestrated effort is rolling out in conjunction with National...
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Apr 7, 2010
The first mission systems-equipped Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter flew for the first time today, ushering in what will be the most powerful and comprehensive sensor package ever...
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Apr 6, 2010
Lockheed Martin and Aerojet, a GenCorp company and teammate on the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) program, achieved a technological breakthrough by successfully completing full temperature...
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Apr 5, 2010
The Dallas Military Ball (DMB) is pleased to announce that U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George W. Casey, Jr., will be the keynote speaker at this year's Ball, which will take place April 17,...
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Apr 5, 2010
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) recognized the team of Lockheed Martin engineers who played a significant role in the successful destruction of an errant United States satellite in 2008,...
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Apr 1, 201013,000 jobs created around the country to support Census data processing
With the U.S. Census now underway, Lockheed Martin's Decennial Response Integration System (DRIS) team is receiving up to 12 million census forms daily, processing as many as 2.5 million forms...
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Apr 1, 2010
TIROS-1-the first Television and Infrared Observation Satellite-and its successors revolutionized weather observation and forecasting. Lockheed Martin and its heritage companies built every one of...
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Mar 31, 2010
Lockheed Martin has successfully completed a wide-ranging series of tests on the multi-mode seeker for its Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) system. JAGM will provide a precision, adverse...
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Mar 30, 2010
Lockheed Martin was awarded an $83 million contract to design, develop, fabricate, integrate, and test the Electronic Consolidated Automated Support System (eCASS) for the U.S. Navy. eCASS will...
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Mar 29, 2010Pilot Program in Djibouti Supports Development Goals
Three Djiboutian businesses successfully completed a pilot entrepreneur training program last week, the result of a partnership between PAE, a Lockheed Martin company, Syracuse University's...
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Mar 25, 2010Athena to fill Critical Niche in Affordable Rockets - Available for Launch in 2012
Lockheed Martin Corporation and Alliant Techsystems , have entered into a strategic teaming agreement to offer launch services utilizing upgraded and modernized Athena rockets. These vehicles,...
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Mar 23, 2010
Lockheed Martin and Itron, Inc. today announced an agreement to integrate Lockheed Martin's SEEload(TM) Demand Response Management Solution with Itron's smart grid platform. The integrated...
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Mar 23, 2010Provides Utility System Operators with Greater Flexibility
Lockheed Martin demonstrated the integration of its SEEload Demand Response Management solution with Oracle Utilities Network Management System today at Distributech 2010 in Tampa, Fla. The...
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Mar 18, 2010
A supersonic Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II stealth fighter rode more than 41,000 pounds of thrust to a vertical landing today for the first time, confirming its required ability to land in...
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Mar 18, 2010
A supersonic Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II stealth fighter rode more than 41,000 pounds of thrust to a vertical landing today for the first time, confirming its required ability to land in...
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Mar 17, 2010
Lockheed Martin software developers are helping the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Education make life a whole lot easier for students and their families applying for Federal Student Aid.
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Mar 17, 2010
The U.S. Department of Energy recently selected Lockheed Martin to receive two grants totaling $1 million to advance the technology commercialization of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC). The...
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Mar 17, 2010Facility will strengthen Corporation's ability to identify and respond to attacks
Strengthening its ability to identify and respond to cyber attacks on its networks, Lockheed Martin has officially opened the Corporation's second Security Intelligence Center (SIC) in Denver. The...
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Mar 16, 2010
The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a sole source indefinite-delivery-indefinite-quantity contract for Symphony Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device (RC-IED) Defeat jammer systems. With...
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Mar 15, 2010
Lockheed Martin today announced that Christopher Gregoire has been named Vice President and Controller effective Mar. 29, 2010. Gregoire will succeed acting Controller Mark Bostic. Bostic will...
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Mar 15, 2010First "Valiant Angel" System Delivered Just 90 Days After Contract Award
The U.S. Joint Forces Command is testing a brand new video intelligence system delivered by Lockheed Martin that will help commanders take better control of the flood of video being generated on...
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Mar 15, 2010
Marinette Marine Corporation, a member of the Lockheed Martin -led Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) industry team, recently broke ground for an expansion to nearly double the size of its main indoor...
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Mar 11, 2010
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, a core business area of the Lockheed Martin Corporation , announced today that it has been selected by GeoEye, Inc. to build the company's next-generation,...
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Mar 11, 2010
An industry Mentor-Protege agreement between Lockheed Martin and Aegisound LLC of Blacksburg, Va., was recognized with a Department of Defense Nunn-Perry Award in ceremonies yesterday evening....
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Mar 11, 2010
The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to support the Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (TADS/PNVS) and Modernized TADS/PNVS (M-TADS/PNVS) systems on the...
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Mar 11, 2010
Lockheed Martin , in support of the U.S. Navy, successfully completed Combat System Ship Qualification Trials (CSSQT) for Aegis Combat Systems installed aboard U.S. and Spanish navy ships. The...
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Mar 10, 2010
Organizers for the 2010 Dallas Military Ball (DMB), which will take place April 17, 2010, at the Hotel InterContinental in Addison, Tex., today announced the entertainment lineup for this year's...
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Mar 10, 2010
The U.S. Navy recently awarded Lockheed Martin a $17 million contract to provide engineering design services for the MK 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) on the U.S. Navy's Ticonderoga-class...
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Mar 9, 2010
The Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) Center has rated the C-5M as "effective, suitable and mission capable" based on results from OT&E testing completed in January 2010. The OT&E...
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Mar 9, 2010
Lockheed Martin has delivered the Hawk-T Mk 2 Flight Training Device (FTD) to Ascent for use in the UK Military Flying Training System at Royal Air Force (RAF) Valley, Wales. Ascent is a joint...
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Mar 8, 2010Doppler Lidar System Detects Wind Hazards, Improving Takeoff and Landing Safety
/ATC Global Conference 2010/ - Lockheed Martin announced today that Arc Trade S.r.l. of Italy has purchased a WindTracer® Doppler lidar system which will be installed at the Palermo Airport on...
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Mar 8, 2010
A Lockheed Martin -led team received a U.S. Navy contract to continue development of an automated logistics system that will help Marines plan and re-evaluate missions based on real-time...
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Mar 8, 2010
Lockheed Martin has been selected for one of two initial System Development and Demonstration contracts for the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) program by the U.S....