Sikorsky Innovations celebrates five-year anniversary of Entrepreneurial Challenge by launching 8th competition

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Lockheed Martin Receives Four Manufacturing Leadership Awards

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CH-53K King Stallion Program Achieves Milestone C

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Lockheed Martin Debuts System to Protect Space Assets

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Design Evolution: Lockheed Martin is using 3-D Printed Parts for U.S. Military Satellites

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Lockheed Martin Long Range Anti-Ship Missile Conducts Successful Jettison Flight Test from US Navy F/A-18E/F

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Lockheed Martin to Sustain the 'Engine of the Air Operations Center'

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Historic Cape Canaveral Building Gets New Lockheed Martin Tenants

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Lockheed Martin’s Latest Electronic Warfare System for Helicopters to Safeguard U.S. Navy Against Anti-Ship Missile Threats

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Sikorsky Awarded DARPA ALIAS Phase 3 Contract to Increase Aircraft Autonomy

DARPA's ALIAS program is leveraging advances in autonomy to reduce pilot workload, augment mission performance, and improve aircraft safety and reliability. DARPA is working with Sikorsky to improve and expand the capabilities developed through a tailorable autonomy kit for installation in both fixed wing airplanes and helicopters.



Sikorsky Awarded DARPA ALIAS Phase 3 Contract to Increase Aircraft Autonomy: Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) company, has won the contract for Phase 3 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program.

Sikorsky - PZL Mielec Plans Caribbean and Latin American Tour to Demonstrate Multirole Capabilities of the M28 Short Takeoff and Landing Airplane

STRATFORD, Conn., Jan. 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, and its PZL Mielec affiliate will launch a two-month, 13-city tour across seven Caribbean and Latin American countries in early 2017 to demonstrate the short take-off and landing capabilities of the M28 twin turboprop airplane.



Sikorsky - PZL Mielec Plans Caribbean and Latin American Tour to Demonstrate Multirole Capabilities of the M28 Short Takeoff and Landing Airplane: Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, and its PZL Mielec affiliate will launch a two-month, 13-city tour across seven Caribbean and Latin American countries in early 2017 to demonstrate the short...

Lockheed Martin and Accurate Machine and Tool Collaborate Under Mentor-Protege Agreement

From Lockheed Martin:

Accurate Machine and Tool manufactures products for several Lockheed Martin programs, including this Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Missile Round Transport Container.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Jan. 11, 2017 – Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is working with locally-based Accurate Machine and Tool (AMT), preparing the company to serve a wider array of potential customers and increase opportunities to bid on government work as a prime contractor in the future. The partnership is part of the Department of Defense’s Mentor-Protégé Program, which encourages prime contractors to serve as mentors in developing the technical and business capabilities of small businesses.

Under a three-year contract awarded by the Missile Defense Agency in April, Lockheed Martin is assisting AMT with refining its manufacturing and management processes to better serve its aerospace, defense and commercial customers. AMT currently manufactures products for Lockheed Martin’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), F-35 Lightning II and Orion spacecraft programs.

“Lockheed Martin partnered with Accurate Machine and Tool in a mentor-protégé agreement because of AMT’s outstanding quality, versatility, adaptability and proactive execution of THAAD Peculiar Support Equipment,” said Tom Smiley, Lockheed Martin THAAD Project Manager.

AMT is a woman-owned small business specializing in hardware integration and support manufacturing services. The company employs 37 people in Madison, Alabama, and has an AS-9100C and ISO-9001:2008 certified Quality Management System.

“AMT is looking forward to broadening our relationship with Lockheed Martin and considers our partnership an opportunity to explore new ideas, expand our integration capability, sharpen our expertise and posture us for continued growth,” said Norris Simons, AMT Vice President and General Manager.

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About Lockheed Martin

Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 98,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.

Last Look Before Lift-Off: SBIRS GEO Flight 3 Encapsulated for Launch

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The Lockheed Martin-built SBIRS missile warning satellite was enclosed in its protective launch vehicle fairing for Jan. 19 launch

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla., Jan. 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Air Force's next Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) satellite, built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), was encapsulated on Jan. 7at Cape Canaveral, Florida, where it will launch on Jan. 19 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Encapsulation refers to the sealing of the satellite in a protective launch vehicle fairing—one of the last steps a satellite must undergo before launch.

The SBIRS GEO Flight 3 satellite is the latest to join an orbiting network of satellites equipped with powerful scanning and staring sensors that collect and transmit infrared surveillance information to relay ground stations. This information is used by the U.S. military to detect missile launches, support ballistic missile defense, expand technical intelligence gathering and bolster situational awareness on the battlefield. While SBIRS' primary mission is strategic missile warning, infrared data will also be made available for new qualified military and civilian uses at the Air Force's recently opened Tools, Applications and Processing Lab in Boulder, Colorado.

"The satellite's successful delivery and encapsulation closes out a manufacturing process that Lockheed Martin has continued to streamline with each build, driving significant schedule and cost reductions into the SBIRS program," said David Sheridan, vice president of Lockheed Martin's Overhead Persistent Infrared systems mission area. "With its launch, the addition of GEO Flight 3 into the constellation will greatly enhance SBIRS' ability to provide resilient, space-based infrared surveillance capabilities for decades to come."

The satellite's journey to launch began at Lockheed Martin's Sunnyvale, California, facility, where it was built, integrated and thoroughly tested. For its trip to Florida, the satellite was loaded aboard a C-5 Galaxy aircraft at nearby Moffett Federal Air Field.

The next SBIRS satellite, GEO Flight 4, is in storage and will undergo final assembly, integration and test prior to its planned 2017 launch. SBIRS GEO-5 and GEO-6, which are currently in production, incorporate Lockheed Martin's new modernized A2100 spacecraft to dramatically reduce costs and cycle times while increasing the potential to incorporate future advanced sensor suites.

The SBIRS development team is led by the Remote Sensing Systems Directorate at the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sunnyvale, California, is the SBIRS prime contractor, with Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Azusa, California, as the payload integrator. The 460th Space Wing, Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado, operates the SBIRS system.

For additional SBIRS information, photos and video visit: www.lockheedmartin.com/sbirs.

About Lockheed Martin
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 98,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.