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  • Lockheed, RANK Software Unveil Cybersecurity Offering for Defense Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, RANK Software Unveil Cybersecurity Offering for Defense Programs

    Lockheed Martin‘s Canadian subsidiary and RANK Software have partnered to create and offer cybersecurity platforms to Canadian and international defense programs. Both companies developed a co-branded security analytics offering as part of efforts to help address a shortage of trained cybersecurity individuals as well as meet a demand for systems designed to protect networks from advanced persistent cyber threats, Lockheed said Tuesday. The partnership demonstrated the offering at […] More

  • Lockheed, PrecisionHawk, Video Inform Adopt DigitalGlobe's Geospatial Big Data Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, PrecisionHawk, Video Inform Adopt DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data Platform

    DigitalGlobe has added three new companies to its roster of partners and customers that use the satellite imagery provider’s geospatial big data analytics platform. Lockheed Martin, PrecisionHawk and Video Inform are among the companies that joined DigitalGlobe’s GBDX ecosystem or extended their commitments in the fourth quarter of 2016, DigitalGlobe said Tuesday. Lockheed uses GBDX in an effort to create commercial […] More

  • Report: Gen. David Goldfein Attributes Shakeout in T-X Competition to Air Force Procurement Strategy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Gen. David Goldfein Attributes Shakeout in T-X Competition to Air Force Procurement Strategy

    Gen. David Goldfein, chief of staff at the U.S. Air Force, has said that he expected a shakeout in the military service’s $16 billion T-X trainer competition launched in late 2016 given the branch’s strategy to procure a new jet fighter training system, National Defense Magazine reported Tuesday. According to the story by Yasmin Tadjdeh, Goldfein told reporters during a meeting in […] More

  • Aurora Flight Sciences Tests UAS Capture System Prototype Under DARPA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aurora Flight Sciences Tests UAS Capture System Prototype Under DARPA Program

    Aurora Flight Sciences has tested a technology demonstration platform designed to retrieve unmanned aerial systems as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program. DARPA said Monday the SideArm prototype worked to capture a Lockheed Martin-built Fury UAS flying at full speed. “SideArm aims to replicate carriers’ capability to quickly and safely accelerate and decelerate planes through a portable, […] More

  • Lockheed Martin, MDA & Navy Test Latest Version of Aegis Weapons System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin, MDA & Navy Test Latest Version of Aegis Weapons System

    A team that includes the Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin have conducted the first shipboard demonstration of the latest version of a Lockheed-produced  ballistic missile defense system. Lockheed said Monday the Aegis Baseline 9.C2 (BMD 5.1) combat system underwent the developmental test onboard the USS John Paul Jones and worked to detect, track and intercept a medium-range ballistic […] More

  • Lockheed, UK Nat'l Cybersecurity Center Partner for Talent Development Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, UK Nat’l Cybersecurity Center Partner for Talent Development Initiative

    Lockheed Martin and the U.K.-based National Cyber Security Center have partnered to facilitate a program that seeks to develop the cybersecurity skills of students who are currently in their first year or about to start university. The CyberFirst initiative will offer nearly $5000 to as many as 250 recruits along with paid work placements and employment opportunities upon graduation, Lockheed said Friday. The company […] More

  • DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 Satellite Enters Service After Testing & Calibration Phase Completion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 Satellite Enters Service After Testing & Calibration Phase Completion

    DigitalGlobe started to provide its first customer direct access to its Lockheed Martin-built WorldView-4 satellite Wednesday following the completion of in-orbit test and calibration phase. DigitalGlobe said Friday it will add additional direct access clients to WorldView-4 service throughout this year and expects to provide satellite tasking and archive support to all customers in the second half of […] More

  • Lockheed's Speedline Facility Completes Inlet Coatings Work on 1st F-22 for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Speedline Facility Completes Inlet Coatings Work on 1st F-22 for Air Force

    Lockheed Martin has completed sustainment work on the first F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft at the company’s Marietta, Georgia-based Inlet Coating Repair Speedline facility for delivery to the U.S. Air Force. Lockheed said Wednesday the company received the first two F-22s for inlet coating maintenance at the Speedline facility in November and December 2016 while another unit arrived […] More

  • Reuters: Japan Negotiates Cost Reduction for F-35 Support Equipment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: Japan Negotiates Cost Reduction for F-35 Support Equipment

    Japan estimates cost savings of as much as $100 million on support equipment for six Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter aircraft the country ordered from the U.S. government, Reuters reported Wednesday. Sources told the publication that Japan negotiated with the U.S. to drive down the price of the next batch of F-35s, mainly on ground support items such as parts, logistics and technical services, Tim […] More

  • MEADS Bids for Poland Missile Defense System Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MEADS Bids for Poland Missile Defense System Development

    MEADS International, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and MBDA, has submitted a proposal to the Polish government to build and deliver air-and-missile defense systems, Defense News reported Tuesday. Jen Judson writes the submission is in response to a solicitation notice on Poland’s Wisla missile defense program. Marty Coyne,  Medium Extended Air Defense System director at Lockheed, said that the proposal covers […] More

  • Air Force Taps PTC for Supply Chain Mgmt Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps PTC for Supply Chain Mgmt Support

    PTC will provide a service parts management platform to the U.S. Air Force in an effort to help the military branch manage supply chain planning and weapon systems support activities at Air Force Sustainment Centers worldwide. The company said Tuesday its PTC Service Parts Management Software-as-a-Service  platform will work to optimize demand forecast accuracy, logistics cost estimation and aircraft availability as well as […] More

  • Lockheed, Air Force's 62nd Aircraft Maintenance Unit Collaborate on F-35 Maintenance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Air Force’s 62nd Aircraft Maintenance Unit Collaborate on F-35 Maintenance

    A team of Lockheed Martin maintainers has partnered with airmen from the 62nd Aircraft Maintenance Unit to sustain the U.S. Air Force‘s F-35 jets in preparation for a turnover of maintenance responsibilities. Lockheed currently maintains all 62nd AMU F-35s and will turn over aircraft maintenance responsibilities to the Air Force beginning June, the service branch said Jan. 24. “We can’t afford to have any […] More