Lockheed Martin has delivered the first Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM) Increment 1 to the US Army, providing long-range precision fires capability and achieving a major modernization milestone. Initial deliveries followed a successful production qualification test at White Sands Missile Range,…
Two Australian companies, Adelaide-based Axiom Precision Manufacturing and the Newcastle-based Nupress Group, have been selected as global supply chain partners by Lockheed Martin for the Orion spacecraft program, a cornerstone of NASA's Artemis manned missions to the Moon. Lockheed Martin’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…
Australian online newsletter Defence Connect reports that Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman will compete to develop and build the US Navy’s sixth-generation, carrier-based strike fighter under the F/A-XX program, also known as the New Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program,…
The US Space Development Agency (SDA) has awarded Lockheed Martin a firm-fixed price agreement valued at approximately US$816 million ($1.26 billion) to build 36 Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL) Beta satellites. T2TL is part of an overarching plan to strengthen deterrence with…
Adelaide-based Inovor Technologies has been selected for Lockheed Martin’s Mentor Protégé Program (MPP), becoming the third Australian Small-to-Medium Enterprise (SME) to do so. Inovor is a member of the team assembled by Lockheed Martin Australia for Joint Project 9102; the…
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract of undisclosed value by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop and demonstrate a nuclear-powered spacecraft under a project called Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO). The project will represent…
The US State Department and Defense Security Cooperation Agency have approved an Australian government request to acquire the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Expeditionary (SURTASS-E) mission system for Vessels of Opportunity (VOO), along with related equipment, for an estimated US$207…
The US Navy has awarded contracts worth US$116 million (AUD$175 million) to Raytheon Missiles and Defense and Lockheed Martin for the initial development of a carrier-suitable long range, high-speed missile designated Hypersonic Air Launched Offensive Anti-Surface (HALO). The contract award…
The US Army’s Aviation and Missile Center has selected Lockheed Martin to develop an advanced propulsion Long Range Maneuverable Fires (LRMF) missile. The missile can be fired from existing Army launchers, including the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, HiMARS,…