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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Sep 2, 2004
Lockheed Martin Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missiles successfully intercepted and destroyed an incoming tactical ballistic missile (TBM) and a low-altitude cruise missile in a dual test...
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Sep 1, 2004
A team led by Lockheed Martin announced today that it has offered the U.S. Navy a network-centric solution for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), a next-generation narrowband tactical...
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Aug 31, 2004
Marking a significant milestone toward an initial capability to defend the nation from a long-range ballistic missile attack, Lockheed Martin successfully completed land-based testing of the first...
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Aug 30, 2004
Lockheed Martin delivered eight Virtual Combat Convoy Trainers (VCCTs) to the U.S. Army to help train troops to recognize and respond to potential convoy threats including Improvised Explosive...
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Aug 30, 2004
When the U.S. Navy's newest guided missile destroyer, USS Momsen, was commissioned this past Saturday, it became the world's first warship equipped with Lockheed Martin's Remote Minehunting System...
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Aug 26, 2004ISPAN to Integrate, Modernize USSTRATCOM's Global Planning Architecture
The U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) has awarded Lockheed Martin a 10-year, $213 million contract to develop the new architecture and functions for the Integrated Strategic Planning and...
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Aug 26, 2004
The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $56.5 million risk reduction contract to fund program management, engineering and logistics support for the Presidential Helicopter Program through...
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Aug 26, 2004
The Lockheed Martin developed Tactical Input Segment (TIS), the U.S. Navy's imagery processing system of record, recently demonstrated full interoperability with an advanced tactical radar sensor,...
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Aug 24, 2004Discussions With Other Connecticut Based Firms Continue
Team US101 has identified 13 additional companies in Connecticut to supply components for the American- built US101 medium-lift helicopter. Team US101 is competing to provide the President of the...
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Aug 23, 2004
Assembly of the wing for the first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter started today at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, less than two months after the plant initiated the aircraft's forward-fuselage...
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Aug 23, 2004
Lockheed Martin received a $14.7 million contract to add a second AN/TPS-77 transportable radar system to the U.S. Air Force's inventory for the Pacific Alaska Range Complex (PARC), the nation's...
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Aug 23, 2004
Lockheed Martin successfully completed a demonstration of manned and unmanned aircraft collaboration as one of the advanced command and control concepts it is developing for its Unmanned Combat...
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Aug 20, 2004Georgia General Assembly Proclaims 2004 'Year of the Hercules'
Lockheed Martin will celebrate five decades of airlift excellence on Monday, August 23, as the 1954 first flight of the YC-130 prototype will be recognized in ceremonies at the company's facility...
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Aug 20, 2004Maintenance and Training Contract Valued at $400 Million
The U.S. Army Forces Command has selected Lockheed Martin as an approved contractor for the Aviation Joint Administrative Management Support Services (AVJAMSS) contract. The contract is valued at...
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Aug 19, 2004
A team led by Lockheed Martin successfully completed a week-long Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft (UCAR) program, finishing on schedule the preliminary...
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Aug 18, 2004
Lockheed Martin anunció hoy que donó US$50,000 al Fondo de Ayuda para Desastres de la Cruz Roja Americana del Centro de la Florida para ayudar a los ciudadanos de la zona que han sido...
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Aug 18, 2004
Lockheed Martin announced today it is donating $50,000 to the American Red Cross of Central Florida Disaster Relief Fund to help area citizens affected by Hurricane Charley. "The American Red...
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Aug 16, 2004Team Includes More Than 150 Companies From 27 States and Will Produce 800 New Jobs
Lockheed Martin today announced that a broad base of companies will assist it in the development of Aerial Common Sensor (ACS), the U.S. Army's next generation manned airborne intelligence,...
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Aug 16, 2004
Lockheed Martin has been selected as the winner of two system design and demonstration programs to develop ground sensors for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program. The awards are...
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Aug 12, 2004
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company employee Raymond F. (Rick) Peters, a Support Integration and Systems Engineer, has been selected to serve as President-Elect of the Texas Association for the...
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Aug 12, 2004
Lockheed Martin has received a $33.9 million foreign military sales contract for Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile-related support equipment for The Netherlands. A follow-on contract...
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Aug 11, 2004
Lockheed Martin received a Revolutionary Approach to Time-critical Long Range Strike (RATTLRS) phase-two contract award from the Office of Naval Research on July 20. RATTLRS is part of the...
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Aug 11, 2004
The British Army Air Corps recently fired Lockheed Martin AGM-114K Hellfire missiles in a live-fire training exercise at the British Army Training Unit-Suffield (BATUS) in Alberta, Canada. The...
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Aug 9, 2004Aligns Logistics Management Strengths to Support Net-Centric Objectives
Lockheed Martin today announced the formation of a Focused Logistics Enterprise to align the Corporation's capabilities in logistics management to support defense net-centric transformation...
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Aug 9, 2004
Lockheed Martin Corporation announced that it has filed a post-effective amendment to its shelf registration statement on Form S-3 relating to re-sales by holders of Lockheed Martin Floating Rate...
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Aug 9, 2004
Team US101 announces it has selected an additional seven companies in Texas to supply components and systems for the American-built US101 medium-lift helicopter. The US101 team is competing to...
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Aug 9, 2004Lockheed Martin and ESRI Enter Strategic Business Relationship for Geospatial-Intelligence Solutions
Lockheed Martin has announced a strategic business relationship with ESRI, the world leader in geographic information systems (GIS) software, to jointly develop and market system solutions and...
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Aug 6, 2004
Lockheed Martin today announced the delivery of the first space payload for the Space-Based Infrared System High (SBIRS High) program. The payload was delivered for integration with a host...
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Aug 5, 2004
The Lockheed Martin board of directors elected Christopher E. Kubasik as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective today. "Chris has provided strong and insightful...
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Aug 5, 2004
The Lockheed Martin board of directors has elected Robert J. Stevens as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective today. This action follows an announcement on March 1 regarding Vance...
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Aug 5, 2004
The Lockheed Martin Corporation Board of Directors today declared a regular quarterly dividend on the Corporation's common stock of 22 cents per share. The dividend is payable Sept. 30, 2004 to...
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Aug 5, 2004
Lockheed Martin announced today that it has presented a $15,000 donation to the Bay Area-based Industry Initiatives for Science and Math Education (IISME). The donation commemorates IISME's 20th...
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Aug 5, 2004
Lockheed Martin's Sniper(R) XR(TM) advanced targeting pod is now flying on U.S. Navy F/A-18 aircraft at the China Lake Naval Air Warfare Center in California. The flight tests are in support of...
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Aug 3, 2004
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) today announced its selection of Lockheed Martin as one of two companies that will compete to design a permanent archives system to preserve...
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Aug 3, 2004
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter team is expanding leadership responsibility to focus on the program's two major elements: program- requirements integration and contract execution....
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Aug 3, 2004Offers Unprecedented ISR Solution for Reconnaissance Missions
The U.S. Army today awarded a Lockheed Martin team an $879 million defense contract to develop the Aerial Common Sensor (ACS), a next generation airborne intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance...
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Jul 30, 2004
Lockheed Martin today announced that it has received formal technical acceptance from the City of Garland, Texas, for deployment of the NexGen City(TM) NexLink(TM) wireless broadband...
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Jul 28, 2004
Lockheed Martin today announced that it has been awarded a $178.5 million, two- year contract extension from NASA for Space Shuttle and International Space Station mission operations support work....
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Jul 28, 2004
Solar physicists from Lockheed Martin and the Solar Physics and upper-Atmosphere Research Group at the Department of Applied Mathematics of the University of Sheffield, UK have used computer...
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Jul 27, 2004Vandenberg Air Force Base Pad Is on Schedule for 2005 Atlas V Debut Launch
Lockheed Martin marked a major milestone in its drive to complete the West Coast Atlas V launch facility with the arrival early this morning of the fourth and final fixed launch platform (FLP)...
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Jul 27, 2004* REPORTS SECOND QUARTER 2004 NET SALES OF $8.8 BILLION, UP 14%; YEAR-TO-DATE SALES UP 16% TO $17.1 BILLION
Lockheed Martin Corporation today reported second quarter 2004 net earnings of $296 million ($0.66 per diluted share) compared to $242 million ($0.54 per diluted share) in 2003. Net sales were...
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Jul 23, 2004
Lockheed Martin Corporation will webcast live its second quarter 2004 financial results conference call on Tuesday, July 27 from 11 to 11:30 a.m. EDT. Chris Kubasik, Senior Vice President & Chief...
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Jul 22, 2004
With 450 P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft and variants in front-line service with 18 operators in 16 countries, Lockheed Martin sees significant opportunities for sustainment, modification and...
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Jul 22, 2004
Lockheed Martin celebrated completion and delivery of its 50th destroyer-bound Aegis Weapon System today with a "pull-the-plug" ceremony at the company's Moorestown facility. The ceremony marks...
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Jul 22, 2004
Lockheed Martin UK has been awarded a contract valued at approximately 20M pounds Sterling from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to deliver a joint asset management information technology...
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Jul 22, 2004
The T-50 Golden Eagle, being developed by Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) with the assistance of Lockheed Martin , is moving forward rapidly in both development and production, according to T-50...
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Jul 21, 2004
Lockheed Martin has been notified by the Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) that Denmark will exercise the option for an additional C-130J Super Hercules. Denmark has already taken delivery of three of...
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Jul 21, 2004
Several industrial partners in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program joined in a panel discussion today to report progress and their roles in the global aircraft development project. "Global...
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Jul 21, 2004
Following six months of simulated trials, Lockheed Martin successfully identified and tracked more than 60 live targets during the first live radar tracking exercise with the newest version of the...
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Jul 20, 2004
Lockheed Martin's F-16 Fighting Falcon thrives in an impressive era of evolution, delivering more than 100 aircraft since Farnborough 2002 and stretching the protective breadth of the F-16 to new...
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Jul 20, 2004
The F/A-22 Raptor air dominance fighter program -- led by Lockheed Martin -- is producing aircraft at an ever increasing rate and is on track for 2004. "During the first half of this year, we...
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Jul 20, 2004
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force have completed on-orbit checkout of the upgraded Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite launched successfully June 23 from Cape Canaveral. The spacecraft...
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Jul 19, 2004
Dain M. Hancock, president of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, cites annual sales growth, a doubled order backlog and a 22 percent increase in jobs as indicators of success since Lockheed...
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Jul 19, 2004
The seventh generation of the Lockheed Martin -developed Aegis Weapon System successfully completed an extensive battery of testing in a single two-day at- sea period aboard the Arleigh...
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Jul 19, 2004
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, through the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, selected Lockheed Martin to develop and demonstrate a prototype network that combines the speed...
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Jul 19, 2004
South Jersey Port Corporation (SJPC) awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.86 million contract to enhance security at the Port of Camden, one of the leading ports on the country's eastern seaboard. The...
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Jul 15, 2004
Lockheed Martin recently completed a successful Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the Advanced Hawkeye (AHE) radar. Advanced Hawkeye, now in development by Northrop Grumman, is the U.S. Navy's...
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Jul 14, 2004Company Now Delivers IT Managed Services to Agency Enterprise-Wide
Lockheed Martin will soon begin managing desktop computer services for the headquarters of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington, D.C. The company's win of that part of...
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Jul 13, 2004
Lockheed Martin successfully conducted the second flight test of a Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Unitary rocket at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., on June 30. The Guided Unitary...
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Jul 13, 2004
Lockheed Martin today released its press-briefing schedule for the 2004 Farnborough Air Show. Briefings will take place at the Lockheed Martin Partnership Pavilion across from the company's...
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Jul 13, 2004
The Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) recently began high angle-of-attack (AOA) flight testing on the T-50 Golden Eagle, a supersonic jet trainer being developed by Korea Aerospace Industries...
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Jul 13, 2004
Representatives from Lockheed Martin , the United States Army and officials representing government and industry from the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and France will celebrate the 25th...
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Jul 13, 2004
Lockheed Martin has been selected to share in task orders valued at $498 million under the U.S. Air Force's Enterprise Information Technology Acquisition (EITA) program. The program will focus on...
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Jul 13, 2004
Norway became the first international country to deploy Lockheed Martin's PANTERA(TM) targeting pod when the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF) participated in Exercise Maple Flag in May. Exercise...
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Jul 12, 2004
Workers at Lockheed Martin's mile-long factory in Fort Worth have begun assembling the forward fuselage for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a next-generation, supersonic stealth aircraft designed...
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Jul 7, 2004DLARS Successfully Demonstrates Net-Centric Capabilities at JEFX04
The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin have developed a prototype system that horizontally integrates Link 16-equipped fighter aircraft with the Air Operations Center (AOC), automatically...
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Jul 6, 2004
Longbow International, a Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman joint venture, delivered the first two of 23 Longbow Fire Control Radar units to Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) in support of...
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Jul 1, 2004
After nearly seven years in space and 2.2 billion miles on the odometer, NASA's Cassini/Huygens spacecraft arrived at its moment of truth last evening: insertion into orbit around Saturn....
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Jun 30, 2004Homeland Security System Will Enable Real-Time Information Sharing of Law Enforcement Data
An advanced Incident Information Management System (IIMS) being developed by Lockheed Martin for homeland security by the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) has been put into operational use in...
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Jun 30, 2004
The U.S. Marine Corps awarded Lockheed Martin a $43.6 million contract to provide an AN/TPS- 59(V)3B ballistic missile defense radar system for the Kingdom of Bahrain. Under the contract, Lockheed...
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Jun 29, 2004
Lockheed Martin and its multi-industry and government team successfully demonstrated an innovative alerting system that increases by 25 to 85 percent a naval warfighter's ability to perform more...
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Jun 29, 2004
Lockheed Martin has received a $9.6 million contract to provide training services utilizing eight Virtual Combat Convoy Trainers (VCCT) to the U.S. Army. The training is designed to help address...
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Jun 26, 2004
Lockheed Martin Corporation announced that it has terminated the merger agreement with The Titan Corporation because Titan did not satisfy all the closing conditions on or before June 25, 2004....
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Jun 24, 2004Company to Begin Operational Production After OSD Approval of Major Milestone
Lockheed Martin has been notified that the Office of the Secretary of Defense has given the U.S. Navy final authority for operational production of the Navy Standard Integrated Personnel System...
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Jun 23, 2004
An upgraded Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Air Force, was successfully launched today from Cape Canaveral. The satellite features significant...
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Jun 21, 2004
Lockheed Martin Corporation today announced that it has been notified of an unsolicited "mini-tender" offer by TRC Capital Corporation to purchase up to two million shares of its common stock,...
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Jun 18, 2004
All of us at Lockheed Martin are very saddened to learn the news of Paul M. Johnson, Jr., and his tragic and senseless death. Paul was a valued and respected employee who bravely carried out his...
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Jun 18, 2004
A Reuters wire service story on June 17 mischaracterized a previously reported delay in the Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program. Schedule information that was reported in the...
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Jun 17, 2004
Lockheed Martin has selected its Horizon City, Texas, facility for the production of the Compact Kinetic Energy Missile (CKEM). Horizon City is on the outskirts of El Paso, Texas. Plans include...
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Jun 17, 2004
A Lockheed Martin/Northrop Grumman team has successfully accomplished a key requirements review for the Transformational Communications MILSATCOM (TCM) Space Segment with its customer, the U.S....
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Jun 17, 2004
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers has awarded its prestigious Donald C. Burnham Manufacturing Management Award to Tom Burbage, Lockheed Martin executive vice president and general manager of...
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Jun 15, 2004
The U.S. Navy recently awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for design agent engineering for the MK 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS). The contract, initially valued at $18.5 million, has a...
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Jun 10, 2004
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $33 million contract from the U.S. Postal Service to introduce address recognition capability earlier in the mail processing cycle to help postal centers...
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Jun 10, 2004Gives U.S. Marine Corps Needed Capability in Iraq
Lockheed Martin will retrofit its Predator anti-tank weapon with a multi-purpose variant (MPV) blast fragmentation warhead, enabling the missile to defeat urban targets such as buildings and...
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Jun 9, 2004Company to Support the EPA's Environmental Response Team Centers
Lockheed Martin has won a five-year contract to provide technical, analytical and information technology support for the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency...
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Jun 9, 2004
What: The National Rosie the Riveter Association's annual conference will be held in Baltimore this weekend. Lockheed Martin is proud to sponsor the event in honor of the company's 75th...
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Jun 8, 2004
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has been awarded a $30 million contract to increase the performance and memory of the mission computer in the U.S. Air Force's B-52H bomber. "This mission computer...
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Jun 8, 2004
Lockheed Martin has delivered a 56,000-cubic-foot tethered aerostat surveillance system to the U.S. Army for deployment in Iraq. The aerostat, equipped with various sensors, will provide a...
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Jun 7, 2004Mars Global Surveyor Completes Over 25,000 Orbits and Continues to Rewrite the History Books on MarsLockheed Martin-Built Spacecraft for NASA Keeps Going and Going
The venerable Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, completed its 25,000th orbit around Mars recently and is still going strong. Built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems...
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Jun 7, 2004
Lockheed Martin's Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) has been named winner of the prestigious Order of Daedalians Weapons System Award, the Colonel Franklin C. Wolfe Memorial Trophy. The award...
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Jun 7, 2004
Lockheed Martin began field installation of Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) kits into the U.S. Air Force's fleet of C-5 Galaxy strategic airlifters on June 4. The first aircraft is a C-5B...
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Jun 7, 2004
Lockheed Martin will highlight the continued expansion of its multi-national programs at this year's Eurosatory show in Paris, France. Media briefings on topics in the air and missile defense,...
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Jun 4, 2004
The Fridtjof Nansen (F310), the first of five Aegis-equipped ships in the Royal Norwegian Navy's frigate program, was launched on June 3 during ceremonies at the IZAR shipyard in Ferrol, Spain....
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Jun 3, 2004
U.S. Air Force Gen. William J. Begert, Commander of the Pacific Air Forces, recently lauded Lockheed Martin's Sniper XR Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP) after a 90-minute familiarization flight in Nevada.
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Jun 3, 2004
Lockheed Martin has won the competition to produce the U.S. Army's Compact Kinetic Energy Missile (CKEM) program. CKEM is the next generation hypervelocity anti-tank weapon to support the...
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Jun 1, 2004
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company has presented a model of a Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Block 5D-3 spacecraft to the Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) here. Since 1966, the...
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Jun 1, 2004
The United Kingdom's Royal Air Force (RAF) formally accepted the upgrades completed by Lockheed Martin to two of its long-range solid state defense radars, situated at remote sites in Scotland....
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Jun 1, 2004
Solar physicists from Lockheed Martin , and The Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics of the University of Oslo have analyzed the highest resolution images ever taken near the solar disk center...
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Jun 1, 2004
Lockheed Martin Corporation will webcast live a presentation by Robert J. Stevens, President and Chief Operating Officer at the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC Strategic Decisions Conference on...
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May 27, 2004As an Integrator of Naval Warships, the Win Positions the Lockheed Martin Team to Compete for Billions of Dollars in Potential New Business
The Lockheed Martin team has been awarded a contract to complete the final design of the U.S. Navy's new Littoral Combat Ship, a revolutionary naval combatant designed to dominate the world's...