As is the custom of recent times, Lockheed Martin started a new earnings season for GovCon companies Tuesday with a boost to its full-year guidance and second quarter financial results that “Beat The Street.”

The world’s largest aerospace and defense contractor also gave investors a forecast on how the current status of F-35 contract negotiations could affect its cash flow and detailed potential future impact on earnings from the merger of Lockheed’s services segment into Leidos.

Click here for GovCon Wire’s story on Lockheed’s second quarter results and this link here on what Lockheed’s finance chief said to investors on the Leidos transaction.

Next week, 10 of the GovCon Index‘s 30 companies and six listed in both the GCI and S&P 500 indices will report quarterly earnings to fill up the calendars of investors with keen interests in the aerospace, defense and government contracting sectors.

The GCI’s sister site GovCon Wire — Executive Mosaic’s home of news that moves the GovCon market — will have all the facts and figures as they come out with the details behind the numbers.

Here is the GovCon Wire and GovCon Index earnings calendar for next week:

• Monday: Rockwell Collins
• Wednesday: Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Booz Allen Hamilton, ManTech International and McKesson Corp.
• Thursday: Raytheon, L-3 Communications and Leidos

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