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  • Lockheed Tests Second Trainer Aircraft for Air Force T-X Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Tests Second Trainer Aircraft for Air Force T-X Competition

    Lockheed Martin has conducted the first flight test of a second trainer aircraft that the company plans to offer in the U.S. Air Force‘s T-X trainer competition. The company said Monday the demonstration of its second production-ready T-50A  aircraft occurred in Greenville, South Carolina, where Lockheed’s final assembly and checkout facility is located. T-50A is designed to train pilots of F-22 […] More

  • Lockheed-Injaz-Tecgrant JV Debuts Portable Machine System for Automated Manufacturing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Injaz-Tecgrant JV Debuts Portable Machine System for Automated Manufacturing

    A joint venture between Lockheed Martin, Injaz National and Tecgrant has unveiled a robotic portable machine system designed to operate as a standalone tool or in conjunction with other production systems. Exechon‘s XMini manufacturing device combines the articulated-arm robot dynamics with the accuracy of a rigid machine tool and uses parallel kinematics machining to automate manufacturing functions, Lockheed said Monday. […] More

  • Lockheed Tests Modernized Tactical Missile System in New Mexico - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Tests Modernized Tactical Missile System in New Mexico

    Lockheed Martin has conducted two flight tests of an updated model of the U.S. Army‘s near all-weather guided missile technology at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Lockheed said Monday the third and fourth trials of the modernized Tactical Missile System during the months of December and February utilized the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launcher platform. […] More

  • Megmar Logistics Taps Lockheed to Deliver Laser-Guided Training Rounds for Poland - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Megmar Logistics Taps Lockheed to Deliver Laser-Guided Training Rounds for Poland

    Lockheed Martin has received a $1.9 million contract from Poland-based distribution services provider Megmar Logistics and Consulting for the production of laser-guided training rounds for that country’s military. Lockheed said Thursday the contract for Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds represents Poland’s first ELGTR procurement under the F-16 Block 52+ laser-guided bomb training program. “We have […] More

  • Northrop, UK Air Force Demo Communication Interoperability Between F-35, Typhoon Jets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, UK Air Force Demo Communication Interoperability Between F-35, Typhoon Jets

    The U.K.’s air force and Northrop Grumman have collaborated to test communications interoperability between the Typhoon FGR4 fighter aircraft and Lockheed Martin-built F-35B. Northrop said Wednesday it provided an airborne gateway for the two-week Babel Fish III trial that was held in Mojave Desert, California. F-35 jets communicate through the Multifunction Advanced Data Link while the Typhoon aircraft uses Link 16 to share data, Northrop […] More

  • BAE Seeks to Build Up Workforce as UK Launches Cybersecurity Hub - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Seeks to Build Up Workforce as UK Launches Cybersecurity Hub

    BAE Systems plans to add 80 additional cyber graduates to its workforce this year and collaborate with CyLon in a push to develop cyber capabilities in the British aerospace and defense company’s supply chain. BAE said Tuesday the move seeks to address future demand in cyber skills with the launch of the U.K. government’s National Cyber Security Center. The center […] More

  • Geoscience Australia Partners With Lockheed, Inmarsat, GMV to Demo 2nd-Gen Satellite-based Navigation Testbed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Geoscience Australia Partners With Lockheed, Inmarsat, GMV to Demo 2nd-Gen Satellite-based Navigation Testbed

    Australia’s geoscience research agency has teamed up with Lockheed Martin, Inmarsat and GMV to demonstrate how signals from multiple constellations of Global Navigation Satellite Systems can help build up positioning, navigation and timing for various applications. Geoscience Australia and the three companies will demonstrate over a two-year period a new Satellite-Based Augmentation System testbed for applications […] More

  • Report: Poland to Buy 2 Black Hawks, 14 Other Helicopters in 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Poland to Buy 2 Black Hawks, 14 Other Helicopters in 2017

    Poland plans to acquire 16 new helicopters in 2017, including two Sikorsky-made Black Hawk aircraft, to replace the country’s Mil Mi-8, Mi-14 and Mi-17 fleet, Defense News reported Friday. Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz said the Black Hawks could be delivered in March and the next 14 helicopters will be chosen among offers from Lockheed Martin, Leonardo and Airbus, Jaroslaw […] More

  • Lockheed Unveils New Civil Freighter Variant of C-130J Tactical Airlifter - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Unveils New Civil Freighter Variant of C-130J Tactical Airlifter

    Lockheed Martin has unveiled a multipurpose commercial freighter offering the company derived from its C-130J Super Hercules aircraft platform for military transport operations. The LM-100J  is a modernized version of the L-100 Hercules platform and designed to support oversized cargo transport, oil and gas exploration, mining logistics, aerial firefighting, medical evacuation/air ambulance and search-and-rescue operations, Lockheed said Thursday. The […] More

  • MEADS Team Pursues Dev't of Turkey's 1st Air & Missile Defense System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MEADS Team Pursues Dev’t of Turkey’s 1st Air & Missile Defense System

    MEADS International, a joint venture between MBDA‘s German and Italian units and Lockheed Martin, has proposed a customized partnership with Turkey to develop the country’s first long-range air and missile defense system, Defense News reported Wednesday. Burak Ege Bekdil writes MEADS representatives have visited Turkey in previous months for preliminary talks and anticipate formal contract negotiations […] More

  • Austal, Navy to Christen 'Tulsa' Littoral Combat Ship; Sean Stackley Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Austal, Navy to Christen ‘Tulsa’ Littoral Combat Ship; Sean Stackley Comments

    Austal‘s U.S. subsidiary will host a christening ceremony Saturday for the U.S. Navy‘s future Independence-variant littoral combat ship at the company’s shipyard in Mobile, Alabama. The USS Tulsa, designated LCS 16, is the second Navy ship that honors the same-named city in Oklahoma and built to support the service branch’s near-shore environment and open-ocean operations. Tulsa is designed to eliminate asymmetric “anti-access” […] More

  • Lockheed-Northrop-Comtech Team Integrates New Terminal With AEHF Payload - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Northrop-Comtech Team Integrates New Terminal With AEHF Payload

    A team comprised of Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Comtech Telecommunications has integrated and tested a new terminal platform with an engineering model of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency payload. The Lockheed-Northrop-Comtech team developed the Low Cost Terminal in a push to address a demand for terminals that can offer mobile access to the AEHF military satellite communications network’s […] More