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  • Paul Colonna to Head Lockheed Investment Mgmt Subsidiary - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Colonna to Head Lockheed Investment Mgmt Subsidiary

    Paul Colonna, former executive vice president and chief investment officer of the fundamental equities group at State Street Global Advisors, will join Lockheed Martin on Jan. 7 as president and CIO of its investment management arm. Lockheed said Monday Colonna will succeed Chris Li and oversee the subsidiary’s portfolio, investment strategies, manager selection, risk management and retirement trust assets […] More

  • Lockheed-Universal Synaptics Partnership Aims to Help DoD Address Electronic Anomalies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Universal Synaptics Partnership Aims to Help DoD Address Electronic Anomalies

    Lockheed Martin and Universal Synaptics have partnered to leverage an automated testing platform in efforts to help the Department of Defense address intermittence in electronics used on military aircraft, ground vehicles and ships. Both companies agreed to utilize Universal Synaptic’s Intermittent Fault Detection tool to identify fault anomalies in multidomain platform electronics and wiring harnesses, Lockheed said […] More

  • Craig Reed Named Senior Fellow at George Mason University Center for Government Contracting - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Craig Reed Named Senior Fellow at George Mason University Center for Government Contracting

    Craig Reed, president of transaction advisory consulting firm Growth Strategy Leaders, has been appointed one of the three senior fellows at the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business. He and the two other senior fellows will research and lead the center’s programs on GovCon policies and other related issues, the […] More

  • Lockheed-Led Shipbuilding Team Launches Navy's 19th LCS; Joe DePietro Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Led Shipbuilding Team Launches Navy’s 19th LCS; Joe DePietro Quoted

    A Lockheed Martin-led industry team launched the U.S. Navy‘s 19th littoral combat ship into the Menominee River in Wisconsin during a ceremony held Saturday. Barbara Broadhurst Taylor, the ship’s sponsor and daughter of a decorated pilot during World War II, led the USS St. Louis christening at a Fincantieri Marinette Marine-owned shipyard before the launch, Lockheed said […] More

  • Northrop Demos Orion Abort Motor in Static Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos Orion Abort Motor in Static Test

    Northrop Grumman has evaluated a motor for the launch abort system of NASA‘s Orion spacecraft through a ground-firing test held at its Promontory, Utah-based facility. The abort motor fired upward for five seconds with flames going approximately 100 feet high and generated about 350K pounds of thrust in half a quarter of a second during the Qualification […] More

  • Omega Eyes Fleet Expansion to Meet USAF Aerial Refueling Needs; Bill Schaefer Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Omega Eyes Fleet Expansion to Meet USAF Aerial Refueling Needs; Bill Schaefer Quoted

    Omega Aerial Refueling Services intends to purchase new aircraft and take out from storage its Boeing-built KC-707 and KDC-10 tankers as the U.S. Air Force looks to industry for additional tanker services, FlightGlobal reported Thursday. “We are very much interested in bringing our expertise to that problem, and expect to go ahead and either bid or […] More

  • Lockheed to Help Army Develop Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Help Army Develop Software

    Lockheed Martin will provide software development and help desk support for the U.S. Army under a potential two-year, $40.4M contract. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract includes product updates, analysis, design, integration, testing, fielding and exercise support, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Contract work will take place in Orlando, Fla., and is projected to run through Dec. […] More

  • Lockheed Encapsulates Air Force's First GPS III Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Encapsulates Air Force’s First GPS III Satellite

    Lockheed Martin has finished encapsulation of the first GPS III satellite the company has built for the U.S. Air Force as part of pre-launch preparations at a facility in Titusville, Fla. GPS III Space Vehicle 01 is scheduled to lift off Dec. 18 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Lockheed said Tuesday. The satellite, […] More

  • MDA, Navy Demo Lockheed’s Updated Aegis Combat System in On-Land Missile Defense Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA, Navy Demo Lockheed’s Updated Aegis Combat System in On-Land Missile Defense Test

    The Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. Navy have conducted an on-land test to demonstrate the capability of Lockheed Martin’s latest Aegis Combat System to detect and counter an intermediate-range ballistic missile threat. Aegis Baseline 9.B2.0 or BMD 5.1 intercepted an IRBM target using ground-based remote sensor data derived from the Command and Control, Battle Management and Communications system during […] More

  • Lockheed-Led Team Concludes Acceptance Trials of Eighth Freedom-Variant LCS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Led Team Concludes Acceptance Trials of Eighth Freedom-Variant LCS

    A Lockheed Martin-led industry group has wrapped up a series of acceptance trials of the U.S. Navy‘s eighth Freedom-variant littoral combat ship in Lake Michigan. USS Billings (LCS-15) underwent maneuverability tests and demonstrations of the ship’s combat systems against surface and aerial threats as well as aviation support and small boat launch-and-recovery capabilities, Lockheed said Monday. “LCS […] More

  • SIPRI: Global Military Arms Sales Totaled $398B in 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SIPRI: Global Military Arms Sales Totaled $398B in 2017

    A new Stockholm International Peace Research Institute report says sales of military services and weapons systems worldwide reached $398.2B in 2017, a figure that reflects a 2.5 percent increase from 2016. SIPRI said Monday the U.S. arms industry landed the top spot in the 2017 Top 100 for posting a 2 percent rise in weapons sales […] More

  • Report: Lockheed on Track for 2020 MDA Long-Range Discrimination Radar Delivery - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lockheed on Track for 2020 MDA Long-Range Discrimination Radar Delivery

    Lockheed Martin aims to deliver a long-range discrimination radar for installation at Clear Air Force Station in Alaska by 2020 under a contract with the Missile Defense Agency, Defense News reported Sunday. The LRDR system is currently under development at a company facility in Moorestown, N.J., and designed to operate with ground-based interceptors built to counter ballistic missile […] More