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  • Lockheed's Horace Blackman: Health IT, Info Security, Cloud Commodification Are Top Trends in 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Horace Blackman: Health IT, Info Security, Cloud Commodification Are Top Trends in 2015

    Horace Blackman, vice president of health and life sciences at Lockheed Martin, has highlighted health IT, information security and infrastructure commodification as key trends in the federal market for 2015 in an interview with Federal News Radio posted Monday. Blackman told anchor Francis Rose that trends in medical devices and applications, cloud and the security and integrity of medical data will increase in […] More

  • Cubic, DRS to Update F-35 Training System for Windows 7; Dave Schmitz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic, DRS to Update F-35 Training System for Windows 7; Dave Schmitz Comments

    Cubic Corp. has received new contracts to continue to develop and integrate the ground instrumentation subsystem of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 air combat training system. Cubic will work with DRS Technologies to make the ground subsystem functional with the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system and update encryption tools for the fighter jet’s P5 systems, Cubic said Monday. Dave Schmitz, president […] More

  • Executive Profile: Martha Shepard, Contracts VP at BAE Systems Inc. - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Martha Shepard, Contracts VP at BAE Systems Inc.

    Martha Shepard serves as vice president of contracts at BAE Systems Inc. — the British defense contractor’s U.S. subsidiary — with responsibility in policy formulation and professional development functions for BAE’s U.S. and foreign-based entities. She also works to monitor acquisition-related regulatory activity and represent the U.S. subsidiary’s contracts on the commercial council for parent company BAE […] More

  • Lockheed Hits Goal of 36 F-35 Deliveries in 2014 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Hits Goal of 36 F-35 Deliveries in 2014

    A Lockheed Martin-led contracting team has met its goal of producing and delivering 36 F-35 fighter jets this year. Lockheed provided a total of 34 F-35A, F-35B and F-35C planes to the U.S. Defense Department and 2 F-35As to the Royal Australian Air Force during 2014, the company said Monday. The 36th aircraft is for […] More

  • Contractors Eye Laser Tools as Emerging Tech, Lockheed CTO Ray Johnson Offers 5-Year Outlook - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Contractors Eye Laser Tools as Emerging Tech, Lockheed CTO Ray Johnson Offers 5-Year Outlook

    Lasers could become one of the most sought-after technologies in defense as manufacturers work to improve their accuracy, power and versatility in ever-smaller form factors, the Washington Post reported Friday. Christian Davenport writes lasers could soon join the U.S. arsenal alongside see-through head-up displays and electricity-conducting military uniforms and exoskeleton suits. Ray Johnson, chief technology officer at […] More

  • Iris Bombelyn: Lockheed MUOS-3 to Expand Navy Satellite Comms Coverage - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iris Bombelyn: Lockheed MUOS-3 to Expand Navy Satellite Comms Coverage

    The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin team has encased the latest Mobile User Objective System satellite within its payload fairing ahead of the scheduled Jan. 20 launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Iris Bombelyn, vice president of narrowband communications at Lockheed, said Friday the MUOS-3 satellite will work to expand the coverage of the MUOS mobile satellite communications network. She […] More

  • Lockheed Selects L-3 Digital Data Link for Small UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Selects L-3 Digital Data Link for Small UAS

    Lockheed Martin has awarded a subcontract to L-3 Communications to equip the U.K. defense ministry’s Desert Hawk III DDL digital platform with the MICRO Secure Digital Data Link. The companies said Dec. 1 that L-3’s MICRO SDDL will support communications for the small unmanned aircraft system’s command-and-control and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. Kevin Westfall, director of LM MST’s unmanned solutions business, said that […] More

  • Lockheed, Raytheon Assess GPS III Operational Readiness; Matthew Gilligan, Mark Stewart Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Raytheon Assess GPS III Operational Readiness; Matthew Gilligan, Mark Stewart Comment

    Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have jointly tested the command and control features of the U.S. Air Force‘s GPS III satellite during a fourth launch readiness exercise. The companies demonstrated automatic data transfer between the Lockheed-built satellite and a Raytheon-made operational control system, Raytheon said Wednesday. The evaluation also sought to demonstrate the infrastructure’s maneuver planning, […] More

  • Dr. Ray O. Johnson to Speak at University of Maryland Graduation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dr. Ray O. Johnson to Speak at University of Maryland Graduation

    Dr. Ray O. Johnson, a senior vice president and chief technology officer at Lockheed Martin, will give a speech to graduating computer, mathematics and natural science students at the University of Maryland. He is slated to deliver the commencement address Sunday at 6 p.m. in the Cole Student Activities Building, the university said Monday. Dr. […] More

  • Steve Skladanek: Lockheed-Alaska Aerospace Team to Offer Customers West Coast Launches - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Skladanek: Lockheed-Alaska Aerospace Team to Offer Customers West Coast Launches

    Lockheed Martin will work with Alaska Aerospace to launch the latter firm’s small- and medium- lift missions from the Kodiak Launch Complex with Lockheed’s Athena rocket. Alaska Aerospace will collaborate with Lockheed to upgrade the rocket and launch pad in preparation for government and commercial payload launch operations, Lockheed said Monday. “Upgrading Athena and the KLC will give government and […] More

  • Lockheed Gets USAF Approval for Extended-Range Missile Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets USAF Approval for Extended-Range Missile Production

    Lockheed Martin has received approval from the U.S. Air Force to begin full-rate production of the company’s Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range for the military service. The Air Force completed operational test and evaluation on the extended-range missile variant last year, Lockheed said Monday. The company was awarded a contract in December 2013 to build […] More