Lockheed Martin has completed a demonstration flight with the goal of testing the company’s open mission systems payloads for the U.S. Air Force. The company integrated multiple radios and waveforms into a U-2 Dragon Lady to facilitate communications relay between an F-22, F-18s and a long-range antiship missile surrogate platform, Lockheed Martin said Wednesday. “This […] More

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a follow-on contract to build additional Sniper targeting pods for the Pakistan Air Force‘s F-16 fleet under a foreign military sales agreement. The company will also work to upgrade 22 Sniper ATPs in addition to the production of 15 pods, Lockheed Martin said Tuesday. The pods are scheduled for delivery […] More

Lockheed Martin and Orbital ATK have joined SpaceCom as new founding sponsors with focus on space technologies. SpaceCom said Thursday that the companies will sponsor the a SpaceCom conference set to take place from Nov. 17 through 19 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. Richard Jackson, director of NASA programs at […] More

Lockheed Martin and Temple University’s Institute for Business and Information Technology will host a cyber analysis contest this fall in an effort to help address the nation’s cyber talent demand. Up to 10 schools will delegate students to join the three-phase National Cyber Analyst Challenge, the university said Monday. “Our programs and our customers have a significant need […] More

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $27,283,219 modification contract to build additional passive and active sonar receivers for the U.S. Navy and Japan under a foreign military sale agreement. The company will produce seven TB-37 multifunction towed array units, tow cables, electro-optical slip rings, drogues and shipping products, the Defense Department said Friday. Lockheed will perform […] More

Lockheed Martin is set to host a computer programming contest on April 18 for hundreds of high school students. Participants will be divided into novice and advanced teams and and tasked to complete a series of coding challenges within two and a half hours, Lockheed said Thursday. The Code Quest challenge is part of the company’s […] More

Jessica Pantages Nielsen was appointed to her current role as vice president for marketing and communications at Lockheed Martin in May 2013 following ten years of strategic communications experience. At Lockheed’s information systems and global solutions business unit, she manages the communications and marketing team’s annual strategic plan and is also part of the senior leadership team. […] More

Lockheed Martin and IERUS Technologies have received the Defense Department’s Nunn-Perry Award for their performance as a mentor-protege team. The DoD handed the award to Lockheed Martin’s Donna Longmire and IERUS Technologies’ Jason Keen at a ceremony in Virginia, Lockheed Martin said Friday. “Through the DoD mentor-protege program, we are able to help a small […] More

Lockheed Martin has developed a smart grid technology with Dominion Resources that works to detect and map power outages remotely and support response planning by sending relevant data from the remote location. Lockheed said Thursday VirtuGrid combines the company’s technology and Dominion’s distribution engineering experience to help energy and utility companies manage power distribution. “VirtuGrid will help utilities […] More

Lockheed Martin has renamed Sim-Industries into Lockheed Martin Commercial Flight Training and appointed Sandy Samuel as vice president and general manager of the organization. Samuel succeeds Jeffrey Wood, who will move to a new leadership position within Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, the company said Monday. Jon Rambeau, VP and GM of Lockheed Martin training and logistics services, […] More

Lockheed Martin and Illumina have partnered to jointly develop genomics services in an effort to deliver personalized healthcare to the public. Lockheed will combine its information systems and integration resources with Illumina’s genetic sequencing tools in the project that aims to help countries consolidate genomics into their national health systems, Lockheed said Monday. “We envision the advantages […] More

Lockheed Martin has received a recognition from the National Training and Simulation Association for the company’s F-35 Lightning II training system. The team of Lockheed Martin, U.S. Air Force’s 33rd Fighter Wing and the F-35 joint program office was awarded the 2014 Modeling and Simulation Awards for training pilots and maintainers on the F-35 system, Lockheed Martin said Tuesday. Mary Ann Horter, […] More