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  • Northrop Delivers F-16 AESA Radar System to Lockheed; Jeff Leavitt Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Delivers F-16 AESA Radar System to Lockheed; Jeff Leavitt Comments

    Northrop Grumman has delivered an active electronically scanned array radar to Lockheed Martin under an F-16 radar modernization program. Lockheed contracted Northrop to provide its APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar systems for the U.S.’ and Taiwan’s F-16 fighters, Northrop said Friday. “The progress to date in the APG-83 program reflects our enduring commitment to providing […] More

  • Executive Profile: Tim Reardon, Lockheed VP & GM of Defense-Intelligence Solutions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Tim Reardon, Lockheed VP & GM of Defense-Intelligence Solutions

    Tim Reardon serves as vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin‘s defense and intelligence solutions business, an organization with nearly 15,000 employees in the Washington metropolitan region, six other states and overseas in the U.K., Australia and the Middle East. The 14-year company veteran leads a business that works with defense and intelligence agencies in the U.S. and […] More

  • Lockheed Opens MUOS Terminal Development, Certification Hub; Glenn Ladue Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Opens MUOS Terminal Development, Certification Hub; Glenn Ladue Comments

    Lockheed Martin has opened a new development and certification facility for developers to test the Mobile User Objective System’s radio terminal applications. The 3,400-square-foot Test Radio Access Facility is located at Lockheed’s Sunnyvale, California-based campus, Lockheed said Friday. “Lockheed Martin’s goal with the TRAF is to help terminal developers and application integrators get MUOS’ capabilities deployed to the warfighter as quickly as possible,” […] More

  • Defense Sec. Chuck Hagel Backs Navy LCS Modernization Plan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defense Sec. Chuck Hagel Backs Navy LCS Modernization Plan

    Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel supports the U.S. Navy‘s proposed modernization effort of the Littoral Combat Ships that are made by Austal USA and Lockheed Martin, Reuters reported Thursday. Andrea Shalal writes the Navy wants to integrate new missiles, radar technology and other combat systems into the LCS fleet. “The Navy’s new proposal, like the LCS, will […] More

  • Transparency Market Research: Global Military Radar Market to Reach $8.4B in 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Transparency Market Research: Global Military Radar Market to Reach $8.4B in 2019

    Transparency Market Research has released a report that predicts the global military radar market will reach $8.44 billion in worth in 2019. The increase represents a 2.9 percent compound annual growth rate from the $6.9 billion recorded in 2012, Transparency Market Research said Thursday. Security and economic concerns, strategic alliances, border protection issues, growing government defense investments and increasing demand […] More

  • Rob Smith: Lockheed Updates Missile Defense Integration, Ops Center for Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rob Smith: Lockheed Updates Missile Defense Integration, Ops Center for Tests

    Lockheed Martin has updated a command and control system for the Missile Defense Agency to evaluate at MDA’s missile defense integration and operations center. The Command Control, Battle Management and Communications System is designed to help commanders view missile threats, Lockheed said Wednesday. Rob Smith, vice president of C4ISR at Lockheed, said the company gave the system an update in order to […] More

  • Northrop Marks Milestone in Center Fuselage Work on Norway's F-35 Order; Brian Chappel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Marks Milestone in Center Fuselage Work on Norway’s F-35 Order; Brian Chappel Comments

    Northrop Grumman has finished work on the first of 52 center fuselages it has designed for the Royal Norwegian Air Force’s planned order of F-35 Lightning II – the AM 1 conventional takeoff and landing variant. The company said Wednesday it reached the milestone on time and within budget, utilizing an integrated assembly line approach to produce the […] More

  • Bob Mehltretter: Lockheed Taps Northrop Attitude Control Instrument for 5th SBIRS Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bob Mehltretter: Lockheed Taps Northrop Attitude Control Instrument for 5th SBIRS Satellite

    Lockheed Martin has selected Northrop Grumman‘s Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit to bring attitude control and sensor stabilization functions to the U.S. Air Force‘s fifth Space-Based Infrared System geosynchronous Earth orbit satellite. Bob Mehltretter, vice president of navigation and positioning systems at Northrop’s electronic systems sector, said Tuesday that the award continues his company’s support for the SBIRS program, with Lockheed as […] More

  • Lockheed Migrates NGA Interactive World Map to AWS Cloud; Jason O'Connor Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Migrates NGA Interactive World Map to AWS Cloud; Jason O’Connor Comments

    Lockheed Martin has launched a cloud-based version of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s interactive Map of the World application in a move to link Earth’s features and intelligence observations in real time. This map works to show manmade and natural changes to the surface of or beneath the planet and be searchable on the map for users through the […] More

  • Northrop Hands Lockheed 4th Payload for AEHF Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Hands Lockheed 4th Payload for AEHF Satellite

    Northrop Grumman has delivered the fourth protected military communications payload for the U.S. Air Force‘s Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite to prime contractor Lockheed Martin ahead of its integration with the AEHF payload module. Northrop said Monday it will perform payload integration while Lockheed works on satellite bus unit integration as part of a hybrid satellite integration and test approach. The […] More

  • Lockheed-Solid Power Team to Build Air Force ICBM Battery; Doug Campbell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Solid Power Team to Build Air Force ICBM Battery; Doug Campbell Comments

    Lockheed Martin and Solid Power have partnered to develop intercontinental ballistic missile battery systems under a two-year, $2.9 million U.S. Air Force contract awarded to Solid Power. Lockheed will help Solid Power perform electrochemical and environmental tests on the power cell units in order to comply with program requirements, Solid Power said Monday. Doug Campbell, president and CEO of Solid Power, said the companies intend […] More