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  • Lockheed to Open Port San Antonio Facility for Cyber Operations; Deon Viergutz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Open Port San Antonio Facility for Cyber Operations; Deon Viergutz Comments

    Lockheed Martin plans to house its cyber solutions team at a new facility within the Project Tech complex at Port San Antonio, Texas, beginning in early 2019. The company said Friday a group of systems engineers, software developers and cyber architects will occupy more than 15,000 square feet of office space to develop and test cybersecurity […] More

  • Report: Boeing-Built 'Echo Voyager' AUV Undergoes 2nd Round of Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing-Built ‘Echo Voyager’ AUV Undergoes 2nd Round of Tests

    Boeing has conducted a second round of at-sea tests for an autonomous vehicle the company built in pursuit of a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater drone program, Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. The service branch awarded separate contracts to a Boeing-Huntington Ingalls Industries team and Lockheed Martin to conduct design efforts under the first phase of the Orca Extra Large Unmanned […] More

  • Twelve Startups Pitch AI Tools to In-Q-Tel, Intelligence Community - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Twelve Startups Pitch AI Tools to In-Q-Tel, Intelligence Community

    In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community’s venture capital arm, has named Focal Systems as the winner of a competition that featured artificial intelligence tools from 12 startup companies. Focal Systems developed and presented a retail automation technology to IC representatives, investors and corporate executives during the “AI Computing at the Edge” pitch event, IQT said Thursday. The winning tool […] More

  • Sikorsky's S-97 Helicopter to Proceed With Full Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky’s S-97 Helicopter to Proceed With Full Flight Test

    A second prototype of Sikorsky‘s S-97 Raider light tactical helicopter has reached a milestone necessary to enter into the full-flight testing phase, Defense News reported Wednesday. The report said pilots of the Lockheed Martin subsidiary operated the helicopter for 90 minutes Tuesday and have completed a flight-test card. Dan Spoor, vice president of future vertical lift at Sikorsky, told […] More

  • Bell Conducts First Public Demo of V-280 Prototype for Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell Conducts First Public Demo of V-280 Prototype for Army

    Textron‘s Bell subsidiary has conducted the first public demonstration of the V-280 Valor tiltrotor prototype for the U.S. Army’s capability demonstration program, which is expected to be completed in 2019, Defense News reported Wednesday. The aircraft reached 170 knots in the first pass and 175 knots in the second pass of the demonstration while on hover […] More

  • CAE Hands Over Super Hercules Fuselage Trainer to Australian Air Force; Ian Bell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Hands Over Super Hercules Fuselage Trainer to Australian Air Force; Ian Bell Comments

    Australian’s air force has received a C-130J Fuselage Trainer system CAE built with partners an Airbus Group subsidiary and Lockheed Martin. CAE said Friday it led the design and development of the Super Hercules FuT platform that features simulation software used in other C-130J training programs. Airbus Australian Pacific produced the trainer hardware using two airframes from the country’s C-130H aircraft, while Lockheed provided […] More

  • Frank St. John: Lockheed-MBDA Team Awaits German Missile Defense System RFP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frank St. John: Lockheed-MBDA Team Awaits German Missile Defense System RFP

    Frank St. John, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin‘s missiles and fire control business, told Defense News in an interview published Wednesday that Germany has reviewed a missile defense system the Bethesda, Md.-based company is offering through a partnership with MBDA. Lockheed originally teamed up with MBDA Deutschland and Leonardo in late 2016 to bid for Germany’s Medium Extended Air Defense […] More

  • Lockheed Taps Raytheon for F-35 Sensor Development Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Taps Raytheon for F-35 Sensor Development Work

    Raytheon has been chosen to develop a sensor technology for F-35 pilots to obtain situational awareness and detect threats in battlespace. Lockheed Martin said Wednesday it picked Raytheon after a competitive process for the development of the Distributed Aperture System starting with the fighter program’s lot 15. Greg Ulmer, vice president and general manager of the F-35 program at Lockheed, […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Gets Army Contract to Commence Development of Small Artillery Interceptor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Gets Army Contract to Commence Development of Small Artillery Interceptor

    Lockheed Martin will proceed with the development of an artillery, mortar and rocket threat interceptor under a $2.6 million contract from the U.S. Army. The company said Wednesday it has completed the science and technology phase of the Extended Mission Area Missile Program by the Army Cruise Missile Defense Systems Project Office. Work for the next phase […] More

  • Lockheed to Continue In-Service Support for Canadian Navy Frigates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Continue In-Service Support for Canadian Navy Frigates

    Lockheed Martin will continue to provide in-service support for the Canadian navy’s 12 multirole patrol frigates for an additional three years under a contract extension. The company said Tuesday it began to support the fleet in late 2008 as part of the $2 billion Halifax Class Modernization project, for which Lockheed’s Canadian arm serves as the prime contractor and […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Delivers 300th F-35 Aircraft to Hill AFB - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Delivers 300th F-35 Aircraft to Hill AFB

    Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office have delivered the 300th F-35 aircraft. The 300th Lightning II unit is an F-35A variant assigned to the U.S. Air Force‘s Hill AF Base, the company said Monday. At present, 197 conventional takeoff and landing variants, 75 short takeoff/vertical landing variants and 28 carrier variants compose the combined F-35 fleet. Over 620 pilots and […] More

  • Lockheed to Supply Targeting Pods for Qatar Fighter Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Supply Targeting Pods for Qatar Fighter Aircraft

    Lockheed Martin has secured a contract of an undisclosed value to provide a targeting system for installation on Qatar’s Rafale fighter aircraft fleet. The company said Monday it will begin to deliver Sniper Advanced Targeting Pods , spares and fielding support to the Qatar Emiri Air Force starting next year. ATP is designed to identify and track small tactical targets […] More