Lockheed Martin has won a $6.6 million contract extension from the U.S. Defense Department to continue helping operate two K-Max unmanned aircraft systems, AviationToday.com reported Monday. Work on the project will occur through September outside the continental U.S. and at the Naval Air Systems Command’s base in Patuxent River, Md., according to the report. The [...]
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Lockheed Martin has completed a series of surveillance tests on gyro-based optical sensors with the U.S. Navy as the company and branch aim to deploy the sensors for all military operations. Sailors at the Navy’s Expeditionary Combat Command sailors evaluated the abilities of both the Gyrocam 15-inch dual sensor and 15-inch triple sensor to track [...]
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Lockheed Martin has completed the first guided test flight of a missile interceptor intended to counter adversarial rocket, artillery and mortars by using a radar to track the threat while in flight. The Extended Area Protection and Survivability Program test on Friday at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. was intended to evaluate the interceptor’s seeker, [...]
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Lockheed Martin is developing a new type of quantum computer nearly two years after acquiring an early version of the computer from a Canada-based company, the New York Times reports. D-Wave Systems developed the computer’s processor from a set of superconducting wires that run at absolute zero degree temperatures, then receive mathematical equations, according to [...]
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Lockheed Martin has obtained a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to commercialize its filter technology, designed to remove salt from water. The company designed the Perforene material to remove sodium, chlorine and other salt molecules from seawater and other sources to produce drinkable water, Lockheed said Monday. “The Perforene filtration solution is [...]
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The U.S. Air Force launched a second Lockheed Martin-built missile warning and infrared satellite Tuesday, nearly two months after the company delivered the satellite to the Air Force. Lockheed’s Space Based Infrared System geosynchronous earth orbit spacecraft lifted from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. at 5:21 p.m. yesterday onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas [...]
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A U.S. Air Force base in Nevada has received its first three Lockheed Martin-built F-35 conventional takeoff and landing jets for testing, with a total of 12 jets to be assigned to the squadron by 2019. Nellis’ 422 Test and Evaluation Squadron of the 53rd Test and Evaluation Group will test and evaluate the jets, [...]
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Lockheed Martin is preparing for the launch of the second Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite for the Air Force. The SBIRS GEO-2 satellite is suppose to launch on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 aboard the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, Lockheed said Monday. “We understand the important role SBIRS plays in our national security [...]
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Lockheed Martin has delivered a new P-3 Orion plane to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for the agency’s maritime patrol and reconnaissance operations. CBP has flown the Orion for more than 6,500 flight hours and seized more than 117,000 pounds of drugs, worth around $8.7 billion, in missions involving the plane, Lockheed said Friday. Orion planes [...]
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Lockheed Martin has won a $12 million contract to update radars the U.S. Army uses in Afghanistan, Syracuse.com reports. The Q-53 radars are designed to detect and destroy approaching mortar and rocket fire, Mark Weiner writes. Under the contract, the company will service eight Q-53 radars deployed in Afghanistan and 24 radars located in Germany [...]
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