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  • Navy Plans Five-Year Trident II Missile Production Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Plans Five-Year Trident II Missile Production Contract

    The U.S. Navy intends to negotiate a potential five-year contract with Lockheed Martin for TRIDENT II D5 missile production, support tools and system deployment services. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says the company’s space business will perform work through Sept. 30, 2024, if the contract is awarded. The Navy’s Office of Strategic Systems Programs seeks contractor support to build and […] More

  • Lockheed to Help Develop Navy's Consolidated Afloat Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Help Develop Navy’s Consolidated Afloat Network

    The U.S. Navy’s Tactical Networks Program Office has awarded Lockheed Martin a new contract aimed at utilizing commercial information technology systems to develop the service branch’s afloat network. Lockheed will collaborate with PMW 160, which operates under the Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence, to deploy cyber-resilient networking hardware and software […] More

  • Mike Gordon: Lockheed Works With DoD, Industry Partners on Supply Chain Security Pilot Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Gordon: Lockheed Works With DoD, Industry Partners on Supply Chain Security Pilot Program

    Mike Gordon, deputy chief information security officer at Lockheed Martin, has said the company has collaborated with the Defense Department and some industry partners on a pilot program to provide DoD with a comprehensive view of the supply chain, Fifth Domain reported Sunday. The pilot program aims to help DoD know the companies that supply […] More

  • Report: Some Contractors Launch Efforts to Continue Defense Work Amid Clearance Backlog - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Some Contractors Launch Efforts to Continue Defense Work Amid Clearance Backlog

    Companies such as Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics have initiated measures to continue development work on defense contracts amid the rising security clearance backlog, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. The National Background Investigations Bureau said the number of individuals seeking security clearances has climbed to nearly 500K in the past four years and the […] More

  • Synopsys to Develop System-On-Chip Emulation Tech Under DARPA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Synopsys to Develop System-On-Chip Emulation Tech Under DARPA Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen Synopsys to develop a technology to emulate system-on-chips as part of DARPA’s Electronics Resurgence Initiative. Synopsys said Wednesday it will collaborate with Lockheed Martin and Analog Devices on the Posh Open Source Hardware program that aims to improve the quality of mixed-signal SoC platforms intended for defense and aerospace use. DARPA seeks to establish a […] More

  • Lockheed-Built AEHF-4 Comms Satellite Launches Aboard ULA Rocket; Tory Bruno Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built AEHF-4 Comms Satellite Launches Aboard ULA Rocket; Tory Bruno Quoted

    Lockheed Martin received in-orbit signals from the U.S. Air Force’s fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency spacecraft just hours after the communications satellite launched Wednesday atop United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V 551 rocket. AEHF-4 that took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida completes a geostationary satellite constellation that will deliver tactical military communications coverage to […] More

  • Lockheed Uses SSR Integration Site to Demo Long Range Discrimination Radar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Uses SSR Integration Site to Demo Long Range Discrimination Radar

    Lockheed Martin has concluded a closed loop satellite tracking demonstration of a scaled version of the Long Range Discrimination Radar using tactical software, production hardware and backend processing equipment. The test is one of the technical milestones in the LRDR program needed to facilitate the delivery of the radar platform to the Missile Defense Agency in […] More

  • Air Force to Test Lockheed-Built Space Object Tracking System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force to Test Lockheed-Built Space Object Tracking System

    The U.S. Air Force‘s 45th Test Squadron at Eglin AF Base will test and evaluate a radar installation Lockheed Martin has built to help the military service track objects currently in orbit, NWF Daily News reported Sunday. Lockheed developed the Space Fence on Kwajalein Island in the Republic of the Marshall Islands under a $914M contract awarded in […] More

  • ULA Preps Atlas V Rocket for Fourth AEHF Military Comms Satellite Launch; Gary Wentz Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Preps Atlas V Rocket for Fourth AEHF Military Comms Satellite Launch; Gary Wentz Quoted

    United Launch Alliance has begun final preparations to launch a Lockheed Martin-built military communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force on Wednesday at Cape Canaveral AF Station in Florida. ULA said Friday its Atlas V 551 rocket will carry the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency spacecraft designed to help command and tactical forces transmit data. Lockheed delivered AEHF-4 to Cape […] More

  • Lockheed to Insert Gallium Nitride Into Army Radar Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Insert Gallium Nitride Into Army Radar Tech

    Lockheed Martin has received a contract modification to incorporate gallium nitride into U.S. Army radars used to protect soldiers from indirect fire. The company said Monday updating the AN/TPQ-53 radar technology with GaN can help increase the system’s performance to acquire counterfire targets. AN/TPQ-53 is designed to help military users detect, classify, track and identify the location of adversarial indirect fire in […] More

  • Lockheed Completes AEHF-4 Comms Satellite Encapsulation; Mike Cacheiro Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes AEHF-4 Comms Satellite Encapsulation; Mike Cacheiro Quoted

    Lockheed Martin has enclosed the U.S. Air Force’s fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite in a payload fairing in preparation for its Oct. 17 launch atop United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket. Mike Cacheiro, vice president of protected communications at Lockheed, said in a statement published Monday AEHF-4 will complete a constellation of satellites that will provide “global […] More

  • Leidos CEO Roger Krone Gets AUSA's 2018 John W. Dixon Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos CEO Roger Krone Gets AUSA’s 2018 John W. Dixon Award

    The Association of the U.S. Army has selected Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, to receive AUSA’s 2018 John W. Dixon Award in recognition of his contributions to national defense programs. “I dedicated my own career to ensuring our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines were able to do their jobs with the best technology,” Krone said in a […] More