Canberra-based Leidos Australia has won a contract of undisclosed value to provide Lockheed Martin Australia with software development, cyber security and verification and validation services for the ADF’s next generation Joint Air Battle Management System (JABMS) under Project AIR6500. Under…
The RAN destroyer HMAS Sydney has conducted a successful firing of a Standard Missile 6, or SM6, representing a step-change in the lethality, air and missile defence, and long-range strike capability of Navy’s surface combatant fleet. The SM6 will be progressively deployed…
At EX Valiant Shield 24, Arlington-based Raytheon demonstrated a simulated complex missile engagement leveraging the US Army's Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, or LTAMDS, and Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System, IBCS, launching the US Navy's…
Ten Lockheed Martin-built satellites have successfully been deployed into low-Earth orbit in support of the Space Development Agency's (SDA) Tranche 0 Transport Layer (T0TL) mission. SDA's T0TL is a proliferated low-Earth orbit (LEO) constellation that will demonstrate low-latency communication and…
Canberra-based Lockheed Martin Australia has been named winner of the first stage Defence’s $765 million Project AIR6500 Ph.1. This is expected to be a multi-billion dollar, multi-phase program. Defence says it is also accelerating the ADF’s Medium-Range Ground-Based Air Defence…
Australian companies will be able to access a global Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD) export market estimated to be worth $83 billion on the back of Lockheed Martin Australia’s proposed solution for Project AIR6500, the RAAF’s planned Joint Air…
Lockheed Martin Australia’s $74 million investment in a national Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD) ecosystem has been earmarked for development within the Williamtown Special Activation Precinct (SAP). The fully inclusive facility, designed to support Australia’s sovereign capability and future…
Canberra-based Lockheed Martin Australia has submitted its own bid for the ADF’s Project AIR6500, Joint Air Battle Management System (JABMDS). And in parallel, the company has announced it will invest AUD$74 million to establish a National Integrated Air and Missile…
Lockheed Martin Australia has joined forces with Melbourne-based secure communications systems expert C4i, as part of a proposal to deliver advanced secure communication capabilities to support the RAAF’s Project AIR6500 Phase 1 (AIR6500-1), Joint Air Battle Management System. The contract…
Martin Australia’s Melbourne-based R&D team, STELaRLab, in collaboration with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and the Defence Science Technology Group (DSTG), has successfully tested Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD) decision support capabilities using a live, virtual, constructive (LVC)…