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Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.

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A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B takes off aboard the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6) in the Pacific Ocean in June 2023.
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Lockheed Martin eyes computer simulation and analysis to help prevent ship deck damage from jet engine heat

Engine heat from the F-35B jet fighter and MV-22 tiltrotor aircraft can warp or even melt the decks of the Navy's amphibious assault ships.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) conducts a live fire missile exercise.
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Navy asks Lockheed Martin for launchers of hypersonic missiles aboard Zumwalt-class land-attack destroyers

Conventional Prompt Strike is a boost-glide hypersonic missile with a two-stage solid rocket motor, hypersonic glide body, and kinetic-energy warhead.
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The fast-attack submarine USS Louisville (SSN 724) sails on the surface of the sea during Guardian Sea 2019 Exercise hold in Thailand.
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Lockheed Martin to build submarine electronic warfare (EW) systems to detect enemy radar and communications

The AN/BLQ-10 is for Navy fast-attack submarines, Ohio-class guided-missile submarines, and future Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarines.
The U.S. Navy fired four LRASM anti-ship missiles simultaneously during tests last year to demonstrate the weapon’s effects on the target.
Sensors

Lockheed Martin tapped for more work on Anti-ship missile with semi-autonomous guidance and sensor fusion

LRASM is designed to detect and destroy high-priority targets within groups of ships from extended ranges in electronic warfare jamming environments.
A Navy electronics technician stands watch in the combat information center aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) in the South China Sea earlier this month.
Sensors

Lockheed Martin to support anti-submarine warfare (ASW), -mine, and -torpedo system in $502.2 million deal

AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 is an undersea combat system for surface warships designed to search for, detect, classify, localize, and track underwater contacts.
The Lockheed Martin AN/TPY-4 3DELRR radar is designed to detect, identify, and track objects at great distances.
Sensors

Air Force taps Lockheed Martin for additional AN/TPY-4 3DELRR transportable air-search radar for air defense

3DELRR is the principal Air Force long-range ground-based radar for detecting, identifying, and tracking aerial targets for the Joint Force commander.
A U.S. Navy aviation electronics technician calibrates eCASS test equipment aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)
Test

Lockheed Martin to provide 14 eCASS test and measurement components to troubleshoot and repair avionics

The eCASS is replacing the Navy's legacy CASS test equipment, originally fielded in the early 1990s, as the Navy’s standard automatic test equipment.
An F-35 Lightning II performs a maneuver over Luke Air Force Base, Ariz.
Sensors

Lockheed Martin to build 145 new F-35 jet fighter aircraft, avionics, and sensors in $11.8 billion deal

The F-35, with its advanced avionics and sensors, is a fifth-generation single-seat, single-engine, all-weather stealth multirole jet fighter-bomber.
PrSM is the next-generation long-range precision-strike missile to attack, neutralize, suppress, and destroy enemy targets.
Sensors

Lockheed Martin to build PrSM land- and sea-attack missiles with multi-mode seekers in $59.2 million deal

Surface-to-surface missile is fired from the M270A1 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) and the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS).
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Navy asks Lockheed Martin to redesign components of F-35 cockpit displays avionics to mitigate obsolescence

F-35 panoramic display is divided in two electronically, offers redundancy, and continues functioning in case of component failure or battle damage.

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An F-35B Lightning II aircraft launches from amphibious assault carrier USS Tripoli (LHA 7) during a 2022 exercise.
Sensors

Lockheed Martin prepares to build batch of F-35 combat jets, avionics, and sensors in $869.9 million deal

The aircraft has a 25-millimeter Gatling gun and can carry advanced air-to-air missiles, air-to-ground missiles, smart bombs, and conventional bombs.
Sailors load a MK 48 torpedo aboard the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Annapolis.
Sensors

Navy asks Lockheed Martin for updated MK 48 submarine-launched sonar-guided torpedoes in $245.4 million deal

MK 48 torpedo is aboard Los Angeles-, Virginia-, and Seawolf-class attack submarines, as well as Ohio-class ballistic- and cruise-missile submarines.
The Trident II D5 nuclear ballistic missile launches from a submarine during recent testing.
Sensors

Lockheed Martin to build submarine-launched nuclear ballistic missiles with inertial and celestial guidance

Warhead 93 will replace W76 and W88 warheads on Navy submarines from 2034, and will be aboard future Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines.
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Lockheed Martin to build sensor fusion anti-ship missile blending satellite navigation and on-board sensors

The anti-ship missile, which will replace Harpoon, has a multi-mode RF sensor, a new weapon data-link and altimeter, and an uprated power system.
The Lockheed Martin Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) drops from an Air Force B-1B jet bomber during flight testing.
Sensors

Air Force asks Lockheed Martin for air-to-surface weapons with satellite navigation and infrared seeker

The JASSM long-range air-to-ground missile is designed to attack and destroy high-value, well-defended, fixed and relocatable targets.
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Navy asks Lockheed Martin for electronic warfare (EW) systems to help submarines detect hostile radar

Navy asks Lockheed Martin for electronic warfare (EW) systems to help submarines detect hostile radar
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Navy taps Lockheed Martin to support and upgrade electro-optical submarine imaging and surveillance system

ISIS is a backfit system that is part of the submarine Photonics Imaging System, a non-hull-penetrating replacement for existing optical periscopes.
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Lockheed Martin to finish prototype system to detect and defeat disinformation based on analyzing media

SemaFor is developing technologies to detect falsified text, audio, images, and video automatically to defend against disinformation attacks.
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Lockheed Martin moves forward on developing aerial targeting using infrared sensors for search and track

Super Hornet IRST is a long-wave infrared detection sensor system that targets enemy aircraft in conditions where the aircraft cannot use its radar.
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Lockheed Martin ramps-up building JASSM and LRASM air-to-surface missiles with semi-autonomous guidance

Stealthy JASSM has standoff ranges to keep air crews well out of danger, while their stealthy airframes makes it extremely difficult to defeat.
Computers

Navy taps Lockheed Martin, L3Harris, to redesign F-35 core processor SDRAM memory and panoramic display

This contract aims to help alleviate design and long-term maintenance issues, and to mitigate the effects of electronic parts obsolescence.
Power

Lockheed Martin moves forward to develop hypersonic missiles for U.S. Navy submarines and surface warships

CPS is a conventional boost-glide hypersonic missile with a two stage solid rocket motor, a hypersonic glide body, and kinetic-energy warhead.
Sensors

Air Force asks Lockheed Martin to build four gallium nitride (GaN)-based 3DELRR air-defense radar systems

3DELRR is designed to detect, identify, and track objects at great distances. The radar is interoperable with coalition systems and meet the requirements of many foreign militaries...
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Sensors

Lockheed Martin to integrate electronic warfare (EW) avionics for situational awareness and radar jamming

The Viper Shield all-digital electronic warfare (EW) suite is custom designed for F-16 Block 70/72 aircraft that U.S. allies like Bahrain fly.
Sensors

Lockheed Martin to upgrade guidance and sensors of JASSM, LRASM, JAGM, and Hellfire air-launched weapons

Upgrades will involve sensors, multi-mode seekers, tube-launched unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), autonomous weapons, and precision targeting.
Sensors

Army awards second big order in a month for artillery rocket launcher that fires different smart munitions

These launchers fire the Army's future long-range Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), and the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) rocket.
Sensors

Lockheed Martin to build missile launchers for advanced guided and unguided rockets on the battlefield

The system also can fire the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) and the future Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) to attack land and sea targets.
Power

Army asks Lockheed Martin to provide ground support equipment for long-range hypersonic strike missile

Hypersonic strike weapons are a key aspect of the Army's Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF) effort to develop long-range artillery-delivered munitions.
Power

Lockheed Martin to build HIMARS rocket launchers to help long-range smart munitions reach their targets

In addition to the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), HIMARS also can fire the MLRS rocket and the MGM-140 Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) rocket.
Sensors

Advanced hypersonics munitions and aircraft: industry shows it's up to the challenge

Developing enabling technologies for hypersonic flight -- or the ability to move at speeds of Mach 5 or faster -- is one of the highest research priorities at the U.S. Department...
Computers

Lockheed Martin to upgrade critical command and control system for U.S. ballistic missile defense system

The C2BMC key interface to the Ballistic Missile Defense System provides situational awareness of system status, coverage, and missile tracks.
Test

Lockheed Martin to maintain and upgrade legacy avionics test and measurement system for ships and ashore

CASS is an automatic test system for naval avionics, and helps avionics technicians to troubleshoot and repair aircraft assemblies at sea or ashore.
Sensors

Navy asks Lockheed Martin to upgrade and sustain electro-optical submarine surveillance and imaging system

The ISIS program seeks to replace the optical light path of existing submarine periscopes with high-definition cameras and fiber optic digital imagery.
Sensors

Lockheed Martin eyes long-range precision missile with imaging infrared sensors and radio signals guidance

PrSM is a 300-mile surface-to-surface, all weather, precision-strike guided missile that fires at land targets and at enemy surface warships at sea.
Computers

Navy asks Lockheed Martin to provide submarine electronic warfare (EW) and digital signal processing

AN/BLQ-10 provides automatic detection, classification, localization, and identification of enemy radar and communications signals at sea.
Sensors

Lockheed Martin eyes upgrades and support for electro-optical periscope surveillance system for submarines

The ISIS system rolls-up existing components and capabilities into an architecture for inserting future capabilities as they become available.
Communications

Space Force picks Lockheed Martin and Boeing to begin project to upgrade MUOS mobile SATCOM system

MUOS adapts a commercial third-generation wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) cellular phone network with geosynchronous satellites.
Sensors

Air Force asks Lockheed Martin to build another three gallium nitride (GaN)-based air-defense radar systems

3DELRR is to be the principal Air Force long-range, ground-based radar to detect, identify, track, and report enemy missiles, aircraft, and UAVs.
Sensors

Navy asks Lockheed to support and upgrade ISIS electro-optical mast-mounted submarine imaging system

ISIS rolls-up existing components and near-term capabilities into an architecture for inserting future capabilities as they become available.
Sensors

Navy asks Lockheed Martin for submarine electronic warfare (EW) systems to detect enemy radar emissions

The AN/BLQ-10 provides detection, classification, localization, and identification of potentially hostile radar and communications signals at sea.
Sensors

Navy asks Lockheed Martin to build electro-optical helmet-mounted displays for F-35 combat jet air crews

Helmet blends head-up display (HUD), helmet-mounted display, and visor-projected night vision to target weapons and maintain spatial orientation.
Power

U.S. Space Force moves ahead on orbital nuclear power reactors to support future satellites, space stations

The aerospace contractors to design space nuclear power through the Joint Emergent Technology Supplying On-orbit Nuclear Power (JETSON) project.
Communications

Lockheed Martin to develop weapons interfaces to enable F-35 to fire JASSM, LRASM, JAGM, and Hellfire missiles

Lockheed Martin will modify JASSM, LRASM, JAGM, and Hellfire missiles for firing from the F-35, which has not been able to deploy these weapons before.
Sensors

Lockheed Martin chosen to design and build reentry vehicle for future Sentinel nuclear ballistic missile

Future LGM-35A Sentinel nuclear missile will replace the aging LGM-30G Minuteman III, and will have improved accuracy, security, and reliability.
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Sensors

Lockheed Martin to build 61 more AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles to attack high-priority targets

The LRASM blends artificial intelligence (AI), jam-resistant GPS and inertial navigation sensors (INS), and electro-optical imaging infrared seeker.
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Power

Lockheed Martin, Westinghouse to develop on-orbit high-power electricity generation in future space missions

Nuclear power may provide advantages over conventional power for spacecraft, and drive enhancements in future space missions and spacecraft designs.
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Sensors

Navy orders eight MH-60R anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopters and avionics for government of Spain

The multimission MH-60R helicopters have sophisticated sensors, and are designed for anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare.
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Navy taps Boeing, Lockheed Martin to support and upgrade extra-large long-endurance unmanned underwater subs

Extra-large UUVs typically are autonomous mini-submarines that measure about seven feet in diameter for launch from shore or from large military ships.
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Sensors

Lockheed Martin to build 8 F-16 Block 70 jet fighter aircraft for Bulgaria with modern avionics and sensors

The F-16 Block 70 features the most advanced fourth-generation fighter aircraft capabilities in NATO’s inventory today, company officials say.
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Sensors

Navy asks Lockheed Martin to provide electro-optical helmet-mounted displays for F-35 combat jets

F-35 combat jets represent the first tactical fighter aircraft in 50 years designed without a traditional heads-up display (HUD) in the cockpit.
Javelin 4 Aug 2023
Sensors

Army orders infantry fire-and-forget anti-tank missiles with electro-optical guidance in $13.5 million deal

Javelin uses imaging infrared guidance to steer the missile's tandem warhead to its target; the weapon specializes in defeating reactive armor.
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DARPA and NASA select Lockheed Martin to develop nuclear-powered spacecraft

The in-space flight demonstration of a nuclear thermal rocket engine vehicle will take place no later than 2027.
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Sensors

Lockheed Martin prepares to build another 147 F-35 combat aircraft, avionics, and sensors for U.S., allies

The F-35 with its advanced is a single-seat, single-engine, multirole jet fighter-bomber designed to perform ground attack and air-to-air missions.
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Sensors

Lockheed Martin to build electronic warfare (EW) systems to help Apache helicopters target enemy radar

The MRFI identifies ISR emitters, and helps the AH-64E pilot to detect and engage an enemy radar threat long before the aircraft becomes vulnerable.
Submarine Imaging 27 June 2023
Sensors

Lockheed Martin to upgrade and sustain electro-optical submarine imaging system for attack and missile boats

The ISIS program seeks to replace the optical light path of existing submarine periscopes with high-definition cameras and fiber optic digital imagery.
Lrasm 26 May 2023
Sensors

Lockheed Martin to build LRASM anti-ship missiles with on-board sensors and artificial intelligence (AI)

The missile employs a multi-mode sensor suite, weapon data link, and enhanced digital anti-jam Global Positioning System (GPS) to attack targets.
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Sensors

Lockheed Martin to build GPS-guided missiles with infrared seeker technology for launch from B-2 bombers

The JASSM-ER is a 2,250-pound cruise missile with a 1,000-pound penetrator and blast-fragmentation warhead that uses precision routing and guidance.
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Sensors

Lockheed Martin to provide additional submarine electronic warfare (EW) systems to help detect enemy radar

AN/BLQ-10 processes signals from the submarine’s imaging periscope to avoid counter-detection and collision, find targets, and conduct surveillance.
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Sensors

Lockheed Martin to upgrade Army's MLRS field artillery to fire a variety of modern long-range rockets

Upgraded GMLRS will fire the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) rockets, Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), and Extended-Range GMLRS missiles.
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Sensors

Lockheed Martin to sustain surface warship combat systems that integrate radar, infrared, and other sensors

COMBATSS-21 warship combat system is for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; mine warfare; special operations; and maritime interdiction.
Himars 3 May 2023
Sensors

Lockheed Martin to build launchers for next-generation long-range rockets in $616 million three-year deal

These launchers will fire the Army's future long-range Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) surface-to-surface, all weather, precision-strike guided rocket.
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Sensors

Navy orders 126 new F-35 jet fighter bombers with advanced avionics and sensors in $7.8 billion deal

The F-35 is an all-weather stealth multirole jet fighter-bomber designed to perform ground attack, aerial reconnaissance, and air defense missions.
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Sensors

NASA to kick-off project for orbiting lightning sensor to boost aviation safety, and provide storm warnings

LMX will be an orbiting single-channel near-infrared optical persistent surveillance detector to monitor for potentially damaging lightning storms.
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Sensors

Lockheed Martin to build Trident II submarine-launched nuclear missiles with inertial and celestial guidance

Each Trident II missile has a range of 4,000 to 7,000 miles, and its navigation subsystem uses a combination of inertial and celestial guidance.
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Lockheed Martin’s completes completed EMI testing on its LM 400 multi-mission space vehicle

The mid-sized satellite can be adapted for military, civil or commercial uses.
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Sensors

Lockheed Martin to build electronic warfare (EW) systems for surface warships using commercial technology

SEWIP Block 2 expands the receiver and antenna to keep capabilities current with the pace of the threat and to yield improved system integration.
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Sensors

Navy asks Lockheed Martin to provide sonar signal processing for undersea warfare surveillance system

ICP processes and displays data from fixed and mobile underwater sensors using machine automation and common software of undersea warfare systems.
Ship Laser Weapons 20 March 2023
Sensors

Navy picks seven companies to design prototype high-energy solid-state laser weapons for surface warships

Laser weapons will detect and defeat unmanned vehicles, missiles, intelligence and reconnaissance, rockets, artillery rounds, and mortar shells.
F 35s 4 Jan 2023
Sensors

Lockheed Martin to build 127 F-35 jet fighter-bomber aircraft, avionics, and sensors for U.S. and allies

The F-35 is a fifth-generation single-seat, single-engine, all-weather stealth jet fighter-bomber for ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense.
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Computers

Navy asks Lockheed Martin to set up obsolescence-mitigation program for electronic parts on F-35 combat jets

DMS refers to the obsolescence of electronic components such as computer processors, FPGAs, power supplies, and databus interface chips.
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NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis I mission is the first integrated flight test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and ground systems. SLS and Orion launched at 1:47am ET from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center.
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NASA’s Artemis I 'mega rocket' launches tech-filled Orion spacecraft to the Moon

Artemis I is supported by thousands of people around the world, from contractors who built Orion and SLS, and the ground crews needed to launch them, to international and university...
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Sensors

Lockheed Martin takes-on manufacturing of PAC-3 missiles

The Patriot PAC-3 is a hit-to-kill missile designed to defeat enemy tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and aircraft.
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Sensors

Lockheed Martin to refurbish M-TADS/PNVS electro-optical sensors aboard Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopters

The Arrowhead targeting sensor suite has forward looking infrared (FLIR) elements of the TADS and the PNVS to provide precision engagement.
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The Orion crew module pressure vessel for the Artemis III mission—the first vehicle under the Lockheed Martin OPOC contract—is undergoing assembly at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
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NASA taps Lockheed Martin for three more Orion spacecraft

Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor to NASA for the Orion program and has completed two Orion vehicles, including EFT-1 which flew in 2014.
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NASA prepares to break the sound barrier with Lockheed Martin's X-59

If successful, history will be made again, Nergis Firtina reports for Interesting Engineering.
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Sensors

Navy seeks to boost anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities of multistatic, active, and passive sonobuoys

Bathythermograph capability provides vertical temperature profiles of the ocean layer to help determine the right sonobuoys for different conditions.
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Computers

Lockheed Martin to upgrade and redesign software for AH-64E helicopter electronic warfare (EW) avionics

The MRFI is part of the AH-64E's AN/APR-48B avionics, which performs target acquisition and cueing for the helicopter's fire-control radar system.
Javelin Missile 4 Oct 2022
Sensors

Army makes big order of Raytheon-Lockheed Martin Javelin electro-optical imaging infrared anti-tank missiles

Javelin has an imaging infrared seeker to guide the warhead to its target, and a tandem warhead with two shaped charges for use against reactive armor.
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Sensors

Lockheed Martin to build 129 F-35 jet fighter-bomber aircraft, avionics, and sensors for U.S. and allies

The F-35 is replacing U.S. F-16, A-10, F/A-18, and AV-8B tactical fighter and attack aircraft. Lockheed Martin has been developing the F-35 since 2001.
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The X-59 is lowered to the ground at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California last month following a crane operation to remove it from the back of its transport.
Commercial Aerospace

X-59: NASA's quest to build a 'quiet' supersonic plane

The X-59 is currently undergoing tests on the ground, in anticipation of a first flight later in 2022, Jacopo Prisco reports for CNN.
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Sensors

Lockheed Martin to build electronic warfare (EW) systems to protect surface warships from anti-ship missiles

SEWIP Block 2 is an evolutionary acquisition and incremental development program to upgrade the existing AN/SLQ-32(V) electronic warfare system.
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Sensors

Army picks Lockheed Martin to upgrade electro-optical targeting sensors in AH-64 Apache attack helicopter

The M-DASA kits are helping to upgrade the Apache's day sensor assembly to enhance performance, mitigate obsolescence, and accommodate future upgrades.
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Sensors

Lockheed Martin picks BAE Systems for RF and microwave missile seekers and sensors for LRASM targeting

The LRASM seeker has long-range sensors and targeting that help the stealthy missile find and engage protected enemy ships amid jamming and spoofing.
Thaad Interceptors 20 May 2022
Sensors

Lockheed Martin to build radar- and infrared-guided missile defense interceptors in $304.9 million deal

THAAD uses the AN/TPY-2 ground-based radar for guidance and navigation, and an indium-antimonide imaging infrared sensor seeker for terminal guidance.
NASA
The X-59 is lowered to the ground at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California last month following a crane operation to remove it from the back of its transport.
Commercial Aerospace

X-59: the next supersonic ‘Concorde’?

As luck would have it, travel snobs like me who haven’t experienced the joys of sound barrier-breaking commercial flight may yet be able to take heart, Christian Orr writes for...
Mlrs 19 May 2022
Sensors

Upgrades set to enable the Army MLRS artillery system to fire ATACMS and PrSM surface-to-surface missiles

MLRS is a tracked mobile launcher, transportable via large aircraft, that fires guided rockets and Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles.
Thaad Interceptors 3 May 2022
Sensors

Lockheed Martin to build radar- and infrared-guided rocket interceptors to defend against ballistic missiles

THAAD is designed to shoot down short-, medium-, and intermediate-range ballistic missiles in their terminal phase using a hit-to-kill kinetic warhead.
Satellite Interface 15 April 2022
Communications

Lockheed Martin submits industry standard for docking satellites to facilitate several different vendors

The Mission Augmentation Port (MAP) open-source non-proprietary interface industry standard is to support on-orbit docking within the industry.
Thaad Launchers 12 April 2022
Power

Missile Defense Agency (MDA) orders six more THAAD launchers to help defend against enemy ballistic missiles

THAAD is designed to shoot down short-, medium-, and intermediate-range ballistic missiles in their terminal phase using a hit-to-kill kinetic warhead.
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Sensors

Lockheed Martin to build AN/TPQ-53 counter-fire radar to protect against artillery and uncrewed aircraft

The so-called Q-53 is a solid-state phased array radar that detects, classifies, tracks, and determines the location of enemy indirect fire weapons.
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Sensors

Air Force asks Lockheed Martin for 3DELRR expeditionary radar systems for forward edge of the battlefield

3DELRR is to be the principal Air Force long-range, ground-based radar sensor for detecting, identifying, tracking, and reporting aerial targets.
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Sensors

Air Force orders 308 advanced air-to-ground smart missiles with infrared sensors and inertial navigation

JASSM-ER uses precision routing and guidance in adverse weather, day or night, using infrared sensors and anti-jam GPS to find aim points on targets.
Spike Missile 9 March 2022
Sensors

Army evaluating Rafael anti-tank missile for use on helicopters, combat vehicles, and unmanned aircraft

The Spike non-line-of-sight (NLOS) missile is a fire-and-forget anti-tank and anti-personnel missile with a tandem-charge high-explosive warhead.
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Sensors

Australia Super Hornet jets to get LRASM anti-ship missile

The LRASM can be guided toward enemy ships from as far away as 200 nautical miles by its launch aircraft, can receive updates via its datalink.
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Sensors

Lockheed to build AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and anti-torpedo systems for surface warships

The AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 undersea combat system for surface warships is designed to search for, detect, classify, localize, and track underwater contacts.
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Render of La Jument nanosatellite.
Commercial Aerospace

D-Orbit deploys USC's La Jument system

La Jument is a 3U CubeSat developed by the University of Southern California (USC), in collaboration with Lockheed Martin for image processing.
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NASA's Perseverance rover.
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NASA selects Lockheed Martin to lift samples off of Mars surface

NASA says that Lockheed Martin's Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) will be the first rocket fired off of another planet.
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Lockheed Martin’s LMXT strategic tanker is offered as an American-built, allied interoperable solution for the U.S. Air Force’s KC-Y Program.
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Lockheed announces LMXT tanker to be built in Georgia and Alabama

Lockheed Martin's aircraft is based on the Airbus A330.
Zumwalt Hypersonic 21 Jan 2022
Sensors

Lockheed Martin eyes hypersonic missiles for Navy ships

Hypersonic weapons aboard these vessels is part of the Navy's Conventional Prompt Strike project to launch attacks around the world in less than an hour.
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Lockheed Martin Ventures invests in Electra’s Series A funding round to support flight testing Electra’s hybrid-electric eSTOL aircraft full-scale technology demonstrator in 2022.
Commercial Aerospace

Electra.aero announces funding round for its hybrid eSTOL aircraft

Electra's hybrid-electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft can operate from spaces as small as 300x100 feet using its distributed electric propulsion and blown lift ...
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Sensors

Lockheed Martin ready to build 105 F-35 jet fighter bombers

Long-lead items are difficult and time-consuming to obtain, and are funded early in the aircraft design process to keep overall production on schedule.
Sonobuoys 7 Dec 2021
Sensors

Navy orders ASW sonobuoys with sensor-fusion capability

The AN/SSQ-125 sonobuoy works in a multistatic field, and is designed to work with the AN/SSQ-53F, AN/SSQ-77C, and AN/SSQ-101 (ADAR) sonobuoys.
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Sensors

Navy orders airborne radar signal processing for E-2D

The E-2D radar features advanced radar signal processing subsystems to enable flexible radar beam management and enhanced target processing.
Laser Air Defense 15 Oct 2021
Sensors

Army wants air defense laser weapons for Stryker vehicles

DEIMOS is a 50-kilowatt-class laser weapon for integration onto a Stryker vehicle, much like the Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense.
The Sikorsky Autonomous Research Aircraft, or SARA, is a modified S-76B helicopter using the Matrix Technology autonomy system.
Uncrewed

Enabling technologies for urban air mobility

Government regulators and industry designers gearing-up for a public transportation future with unmanned helicopters that rely on machine automation, sensors, and software.
The Tactically Responsive Launch-2 (TacRL-2) mission launched on a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in June, delivering a technology demonstration satellite to low-Earth orbit. U.S. Space Force photo
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Space Force focuses on satellites, rockets, radar, and cyber security

The newest branch of the U.S. military in residence at the Pentagon, the U.S. Space Force, operates at the upper limits of human territory.
Sonar 13 Sept 2021
Computers

Lockheed Martin eyes ASW Integrated Common Processor (ICP)

ICP is part of the Navy's system of fixed, mobile, and deployable acoustic arrays to detect, localize, and track quiet diesel and nuclear submarines.
Blackjack 13 Sept 2021
Communications

DARPA boosts Lockheed Martin Blackjack satellite integration

The technology developed in the Blackjack program is supporting a large network of communications and missile-warning satellites in low Earth orbit.
M Tads Pnvs 26 Aug 2021
Sensors

More electro-optical fire-control for Army helicopters

M-TADS/PNVS is for the AH-64 Apache attack helicopters that crews use for targeting and pilotage in day, night, and bad weather.