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  • 99 Student Teams to Take Part in NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    99 Student Teams to Take Part in NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge

    Ninety-nine student teams from high schools and universities in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Brazil and other countries will participate in NASA’s three-day Human Exploration Rover Challenge that will kick off March 30 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Alabama. NASA said Wednesday the Marshall Space Flight Center will host the competition that will require […] More

  • Lockheed Supports Sea Acceptance Trials of Australia's Future Aegis-Equipped Destroyer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Supports Sea Acceptance Trials of Australia’s Future Aegis-Equipped Destroyer

    Lockheed Martin has collaborated with an alliance composed of Australia’s defense department, Raytheon‘s Australian subsidiary, ASC Shipbuilding and Navantia to conduct a five-week sea acceptance trial for a Hobart-class air warfare destroyer. The Air Warfare Destroyer Alliance and Lockheed jointly tested Australia’s future HMAS destroyer to verify the ship platform and determine if the vessel could support the Aegis combat system, Lockheed said Monday. […] More

  • Lockheed Updates Airborne Testbed to Boost Intell Processing Capacity; Rob Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Updates Airborne Testbed to Boost Intell Processing Capacity; Rob Smith Comments

    Lockheed Martin has updated a manned airborne testbed the company built to help customers experiment with a range of sensors, technologies and systems designed for contingency operations. The company said said Monday it reconfigured the Airborne Multi-INT Lab in an effort to increase the platform’s capacity to process and transform data into decision-making support intelligence. AML now employs an updated on-board processing system designed to collect […] More

  • Steve Skladanek: Lockheed Eyes 5-Year Overlap in Operations Between Atlas V, Vulcan Rockets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Skladanek: Lockheed Eyes 5-Year Overlap in Operations Between Atlas V, Vulcan Rockets

    Lockheed Martin plans to concurrently operate its Atlas V rocket with the United Launch Alliance-built Vulcan launch vehicle for a period of five years, Space News reported Friday. “We will be flying both vehicles for some period of time until we are absolutely certain that the Vulcan system can maintain the cadence, and the rhythm […] More

  • Reuters: MBDA, Lockheed Plan JV to Manage MEADS Deal with Germany - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: MBDA, Lockheed Plan JV to Manage MEADS Deal with Germany

    MBDA plans to establish a joint venture with Lockheed Martin to oversee a missile defense program in Germany after the country’s defense ministry voiced concerns about MBDA’s capacity to execute the project independently, Reuters reported Thursday. Andrea Shalal writes both companies are in talks with the German defense ministry regarding their planned JV and the ministry does not expect to finalize a contract with […] More

  • Air Force Orders Rheinmetall Ammo for F-35 Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Orders Rheinmetall Ammo for F-35 Fleet

    Rheinmetall has received a $6.5 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to produce four lots of ammunition for the service branch’s fleet of Lockheed Martin-built F-35 aircraft. The company said Monday it will begin to deliver Frangible Armor Piercing rounds to the Air Force in December 2017. Rheinmetall will manufacture the ammunition at a company facility in Switzerland and […] More

  • Northrop Delivers Fifth AEHF Satellite Payload to Lockheed; Cyrus Dhalla Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Delivers Fifth AEHF Satellite Payload to Lockheed; Cyrus Dhalla Comments

    Lockheed Martin has received a fifth payload comprised of anti-jamming, cyber attack protection, detection and intercept technologies from Northrop Grumman under a U.S. Air Force satellite program that aims to facilitate communications between military leaders and the White House. Northrop said Monday the payload it developed for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite will undergo space vehicle level integration ahead of the fifth […] More

  • Lockheed-Built GOES-16 Satellite Instruments Record Continuous Lightning, Solar Storm Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built GOES-16 Satellite Instruments Record Continuous Lightning, Solar Storm Data

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has unveiled the first images from two Lockheed Martin-built space instruments onboard a weather monitoring satellite that was launched in November last year. Lockheed said Monday the Geostationary Lightning Mapper and Solar Ultraviolet Imager on NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 work to record continuous lightning data and compile complete views of the sun, respectively. Jeff Vanden […] More

  • ULA Postpones WGS-9 Military Satellite Launch to Fix Rocket Booster Glitch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Postpones WGS-9 Military Satellite Launch to Fix Rocket Booster Glitch

    United Launch Alliance has decided to postpone the scheduled March 8 launch of a follow-on Wideband Global Satcom satellite as the Lockheed Martin–Boeing joint venture works to resolve a first-stage booster glitch found on a Delta IV rocket during its prelaunch inspection. ULA said Saturday it now plans to launch the U.S. Air Force‘s WGS-9 satellite no earlier than March 14 at Space Launch Complex-37 […] More

  • Report: BAE, Lockheed Compete for Australia's Jindalee Radar Network Upgrade Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: BAE, Lockheed Compete for Australia’s Jindalee Radar Network Upgrade Project

    BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin have bid on a project to modernize the Australian air force’s over-the-horizon radar system, Aviation Week reported Thursday. Bradley Perrett writes the modernization effort for the Jindalee Operational Radar Network is scheduled to begin next year and will run through 2020. The report said “Project Joint 2025 Phase 6” will cover upgrade work on JORN’s signal generator, receivers, signal […] More

  • Jeff Babione: Lockheed in Talks With Potential F-35 Buyers in Europe - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeff Babione: Lockheed in Talks With Potential F-35 Buyers in Europe

    Jeff Babione, executive vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin‘s F-35 program, has said the company is in discussions with the governments of Spain, Belgium and Switzerland regarding the countries’ plans to buy fighter jets, Defense World reported Friday. “We are starting to see other customers think about the F-35 being added to their fleet,” Babione told […] More