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  • Lockheed to Help Navy Evaluate Freedom-Class LCS Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Help Navy Evaluate Freedom-Class LCS Program

    Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $74.6 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy to help the service branch conduct special studies, reviews and analyses of the Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship development initiative. The Defense Department said Thursday that Lockheed will evaluate production and engineering challenges and cost and schedule risks associated with the Freedom-class LCS program. The company will also provide LCS engineering and […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Nabs Navy Contract for CASS Logistics Maintenance, Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Nabs Navy Contract for CASS Logistics Maintenance, Support Services

    A Lockheed Martin business unit has landed a $21.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy for logistics maintenance and support services for as many as 400 Consolidated Automated Support System stations. Lockheed’s mission systems and training business will also provide support for 150 reconfigurable, transportable CASS stations, the Defense Department said Monday. DoD added that the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division […] More

  • Avcorp Receives F-35 Outboard Wing Order From Lockheed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avcorp Receives F-35 Outboard Wing Order From Lockheed

    Airframe structure builder Avcorp Industries has received a new firm order from Lockheed Martin to produce outboard wings for lots nine and 10 of the F-35 program. The F-35 Carrier Variant Outboard Wing order builds on a previous contract awarded by Lockheed in October 2015, Avcorp said Friday. Avcorp CEO Peter George said the company is in talks with Lockheed to […] More

  • Navy Orders Additional Laser-Guided Training Rounds From Lockheed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders Additional Laser-Guided Training Rounds From Lockheed

    The U.S. Navy has awarded a $25.8 million contract to Lockheed Martin to deliver live-fire training rounds of its laser-guided bombs. Lockheed said Thursday the Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds award is the last of four options under an $84.5 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract originally awarded in 2013. The company added it will also refurbish reusable shipping containers and provide […] More

  • Lockheed, Partners to Open Entrepreneurship College in Saudi Arabia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Partners to Open Entrepreneurship College in Saudi Arabia

    Lockheed Martin and Babson Global have worked with the Saudi Arabia Economic Offset Program office and the King Abdullah Economic City in Saudi Arabia to erect an entrepreneurship college in the region. Lockheed said Wednesday the future College for Business and Entrepreneurship at KAEC will be modeled after the entrepreneurship education programs at Babson College. The project will work […] More

  • State Dept Approves France's $90M Request of Lockheed-Made Unitary Rocket Pods - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Dept Approves France’s $90M Request of Lockheed-Made Unitary Rocket Pods

    The State Department has approved a request by France to purchase Lockheed Martin-built unitary rocket pods and other related resources from the U.S. government under a $90 million foreign military sales agreement between both countries. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification to notify Congress of France’s request to buy Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System unitary rocket pods, DSCA […] More

  • Sandia Lab, CFRTA Sign Partnership Agreement for Emergency Planning Concepts Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sandia Lab, CFRTA Sign Partnership Agreement for Emergency Planning Concepts Development

    Sandia National Laboratories and the California Fire and Rescue Training Authority have signed a memorandum of agreement for the development of new emergency planning, exercise and response concepts. Sandia aims to build on its nine-month agreement with California for emergency response scenarios on wildfire, chlorine tanker release and radiological dispersal device for CFRTA and the state, Sandia […] More

  • DARPA Awards Gremlins Program Phase 1 Contracts to 4 Companies; Dan Patt Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Awards Gremlins Program Phase 1 Contracts to 4 Companies; Dan Patt Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a series of phase one contracts to four companies for proposals to develop unmanned air systems that can be recovered while in flight and are reusable. DARPA said Thursday it selected General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems unit, Lockheed Martin, Dynetics and Composite Engineering to develop launch and recovery techniques, airframe designs, digital […] More

  • Lockheed Reseller Partner Gets Straightline Aviation LOI to Purchase Hybrid Airships for $480M - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Reseller Partner Gets Straightline Aviation LOI to Purchase Hybrid Airships for $480M

    Lockheed Martin reseller partner Hybrid Enterprises has received a letter of intent from Straightline Aviation for the purchase of 12 Lockheed-built Hybrid Airships worth an estimated $480 million. Hybrid Enterprises has started negotiations with SLA regarding the purchase agreement and works to finalize the sales of the cargo and passenger transport aircraft, Lockheed said Wednesday. Lockheed selected Hybrid Enterprises in June 2015 […] More

  • Textron Continues Support for Lockheed's Production of Navy Aircraft Testing System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Continues Support for Lockheed’s Production of Navy Aircraft Testing System

    Textron Systems‘ electronic systems unit will continue manufacturing radio frequency components for Lockheed Martin‘s electronic Consolidated Automated Support System under a U.S. Navy contract awarded in February 2015. Textron said Tuesday its electronic systems business unit is scheduled to deliver 31 Radio Frequency Mission Equipment Kits in July. The Rhode Island-based company said its RF MEK — one of […] More

  • Lockheed and Air Force Named Aviation Week Laureate Awardee for Auto ACAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed and Air Force Named Aviation Week Laureate Awardee for Auto ACAS

    Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force-built Automated Air Collision Avoidance System has won Aviation Week’s Laureate Award. The team composed of the office of the Under Secretary of Defense Personnel and Readiness, Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Air Force Test Center and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works developed Auto ACAS in an effort to […] More

  • Executive Profile: Scott Gray, Lockheed Martin IT & Security VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Scott Gray, Lockheed Martin IT & Security VP

    Scott Gray serves as vice president for the information technology and security business at Lockheed Martin, where he oversees more than 1,200 employees and a portfolio of IT services for government clients including the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, Transportation and General Services Administration, among others. Before assuming his current role in April 2015, Gray served as program director of […] More