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  • Harris Delivers Comms, Connectivity Services to Support NASA Juno Mission on Jupiter - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Delivers Comms, Connectivity Services to Support NASA Juno Mission on Jupiter

    Harris has provided communications and monitoring connectivity to support the NASA mission to insert the Lockheed Martin-built Juno spacecraft into an elliptical polar orbit around Jupiter. Harris said Tuesday a team of more than 100 employees supported operations, maintenance and engineering work for the space agency and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Deep Space Network. “Harris and the DSN have been […] More

  • Lockheed-Built Juno Spacecraft Reaches Orbit Around Jupiter; Guy Beutelschies Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built Juno Spacecraft Reaches Orbit Around Jupiter; Guy Beutelschies Comments

    NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Lockheed Martin‘s mission support area have worked together to operate and place the company-built Juno spacecraft into a large elliptical polar orbit around Jupiter. Lockheed said Monday the probe reached Jupiter Monday evening after a 1.76-billion-mile journey in the last five years. A team of engineers from the company and the agency sent final commands to […] More

  • Lockheed's Sandia Subsidiary to Receive Energy Tech Project Funds From DOE - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Sandia Subsidiary to Receive Energy Tech Project Funds From DOE

    The Energy Department will support two technology development initiatives at Sandia National Laboratories for eventual transmission into the commercial market. Sandia Labs said Tuesday its Sandia Cooler and BA-BZT-BT capacitors projects will receive an equal amount of non-federal money with the other selected energy projects from TCF to match the federal investment. Lockheed Martin‘s Sandia Corp. subsidiary operates the laboratory […] More

  • Austal USA Delivers 'Montgomery' Littoral Combat Ship to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Austal USA Delivers ‘Montgomery’ Littoral Combat Ship to Navy

    Austal USA formally turned over the USS Montgomery littoral combat ship to the U.S. Navy at a ceremony held Thursday at the company’s shipyard in Mobile, Alabama. The Navy said Friday Montgomery, which is scheduled to be commissioned in September,  will be the military branch’s seventh LCS and fourth ship of its Independence class. Capt. Tom Anderson, the Navy’s LCS program manager, said the service […] More

  • Sikorsky-Built King Stallion Aircraft Completes 27,000-Pound Payload Lift; Michael Torok Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky-Built King Stallion Aircraft Completes 27,000-Pound Payload Lift; Michael Torok Comments

    The Sikorsky-built CH-53K King Stallion has accomplished an “out of ground effect” external load test to lift a 27,000 pound payload 100 feet above the ground while performing hover maneuvers. Lockheed Martin said Thursday the test was conducted at Sikorsky’s Development Flight Test Center to display the aircraft’s control authority. “This is the most strenuous condition we had to demonstrate from a […] More

  • Report: Lockheed, Australian Defense S&T Agency Partner for 'Over-the-Horizon' Radar Devt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lockheed, Australian Defense S&T Agency Partner for ‘Over-the-Horizon’ Radar Devt

    Australia’s defense science and technology organization has partnered with Lockheed Martin to develop radar technology for detecting and tracking small, fast-moving targets at a very long range, Defense News reported Friday. Nigel Pittaway writes the Australian DST Group and Lockheed completed the first phase of validation work on ‘over-the-horizon’ radar technology as part of Project Coorong. The report said Lockheed invested in […] More

  • Sikorsky, Turkey Enter Agreements to Produce 109 Black Hawk-Based Utility Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky, Turkey Enter Agreements to Produce 109 Black Hawk-Based Utility Helicopters

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has entered agreements with Turkey’s government and aerospace companies in the country to license production of 109 T70 utility helicopters based on Black Hawk aircraft. Sikorsky said Thursday Turkish Aerospace Industries will build and deliver T70 aircraft within the next 10 years as prime contractor for the $3.5 billion Turkish Utility Helicopter Program. Sikorsky will provide engineering data […] More

  • Denmark Takes in 3 Sikorsky Seahawk Multimission Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Denmark Takes in 3 Sikorsky Seahawk Multimission Helicopters

    The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin have handed over an initial set of three Sikorsky-built MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to Denmark under a foreign military sales agreement. Lockheed said Wednesday Denmark’s unified armed forces will deploy the MH-60Rs to support maritime surveillance, anti surface warfare, force protection and utility transport, search-and-rescue, patrol and support operations across the country’s borders. Denmark ordered nine Seahawks under an FMS deal with the […] More

  • Lockheed, Interset Aim to Offer Analytics-Based Insider Threat Detection Platform for Commercial Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Interset Aim to Offer Analytics-Based Insider Threat Detection Platform for Commercial Clients

    Lockheed Martin and Interset have partnered to develop an integrated platform for commercial customers to identify potential insider threats through user behavior analytics. The partnership seeks to combine Interset’s user behavior analytics software and Lockheed’s Wisdom Insider Threat Identification technology, Lockheed said Monday. “Insider threats pose one of the highest risks to an organization, and thefts by malicious insiders are projected to double by […] More

  • Reuters: Lockheed Considers Moving F-35 Work From Canada - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: Lockheed Considers Moving F-35 Work From Canada

    Jack Crisler, Lockheed Martin vice president of business development for the F-35 program, said the company might move production work on the fighter jets away from Canadian companies amid uncertainty in Canada’s plans to buy F-35s, Reuters reported Friday. Andrea Shalal writes Crisler told Reuters the company might shift future F-35 work to other partner countries that placed firm […] More

  • Lockheed Funds Initiative to House Homeless Veterans in Santa Clara - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Funds Initiative to House Homeless Veterans in Santa Clara

    Lockheed Martin has entered a three-year funding commitment to support the All the Way Home program that aims to house more than 700 homeless veterans in Santa Clara, California by Veterans Day 2018. The company said Thursday it has contributed an initial $10,000 to All the Way Home to supply 70 kits that contain personal care items, clothing, cookware and linens as well as […] More

  • Lockheed EVP Rick Ambrose to Speak at Atlantic Council's 'Captains of Industry Series' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed EVP Rick Ambrose to Speak at Atlantic Council’s ‘Captains of Industry Series’

    The Atlantic Council‘s Captains of Industry Series will feature Rick Ambrose, a Lockheed Martin executive vice president, in its next event on June 8, 2016. The Council said that Ambrose will hold a discussion on Lockheed’s opinion in the evolving space sector. The Captains of Industry Series showcases aerospace and defense industry senior executives and their opinions on matters that affect the industry to help constituents […] More