Lockheed Completes Design Review of Missile Defense Training System; Jim Quinn Comments
A Lockheed Martin- Missile Defense National team has completed the preliminary design review of the command, control, battle management and communications’ upgraded training component that allows users to plan and oversee ballistic missile defense operations. The review ensured that the Lockheed Martin-led team is on schedule and that the upgrades will support the C2BMC’s existing operation [...]
Lockheed Martin has added information technology service integration and management to its cloud computing offerings for the U.K. government under the country’s G-Cloud program. The G-Cloud 3 framework agreement succeeds the previous G-Cloud 2 program and the company will offer the services through its solutions-as-a-service portfolio, Lockheed said Monday. Through the SolaS portfolio, the company [...]
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Lockheed Martin‘s F35 fighter jet recently completed a series of high-angle-of-attack tests to evaluate the plane’s ability to fly beyond the positive and negative limits of control. The conventional takeoff-and-landing F-35A variant initially flew in a clean-wing configuration and then with external pylons, missiles and open weapon bay doors, Lockheed said Thursday. In Fall 2012, [...]
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A Lockheed Martin prototype of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s extended medium-range ballistic missile target has been successfully tested at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, the company said Monday. The eMRBM target was released from an Air Force C-17 aircraft at great than 25,000 feet of altitude during the air launch, Lockheed said. According to [...]
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NASA, Google and the Universities Space Research Association have acquired a quantum computer from science company D-Wave with the goal of advancing machine learning and solving computer science problems. USRA intends for D-Wave Two to be available to the wider U.S. academic community, D-Wave said Thursday. Lockheed Martin acquired an earlier version of a D-Wave quantum [...]
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A Lockheed Martin-led team has added a new palmprint technology and other upgrades to a fingerprint identification system the FBI uses to identify suspects and solve cold cases. The FBI’s Next Generation Identification program is designed to provide biometric services to more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the country, Lockheed said Wednesday. Morpho developed [...]
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Lockheed Martin Corp. has handed over to the U.S. Navy its second mobile communications satellite to commence site testing and delivery of the spacecraft to orbit. The Bethesda, Md.-based contractor will install the Mobile User Objective System–2 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket for a July launch, Lockheed said Monday. It transported the [...]
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Lockheed Martin has upgraded its automation system and Web portal for pilots with goals to ensure safety in aviation sector. The surveillance-enhanced search and rescue service intends to help pilots monitor aircraft movements, location and emergency signals for search and rescue operations, Lockheed said Thursday. SE-SAR works with SpiderTracks GPS devices on the new Web [...]
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Lockheed Demonstrates Anti-Munitions Ground Laser System; Tory Bruno Comments
May 9, 2013 No CommentLockheed Martin announced that in the past two months, it has tested its area defense anti-munitions system against free-flying Qassam-like rockets. During the demonstration in March and April, the ADAM system was able to destroy eight small-caliber rockets at 1.5-kilometer ranges, according to a Lockheed statement. “High-energy lasers complement kinetic energy systems and have unique attributes, including [...]
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