Bulgaria is looking to acquire eight additional F-16 Block 70 fighter jets from the U.S. to expand on its initial eight-aircraft order and avail ammunition and training support services, Bulgarian News Agency reported Thursday. An investment expenditure draft previously adopted by the Balkan nation’s budget and finance committee details a plan...
The State Department has cleared Australia’s request to procure from the U.S. government two dozen military transport aircraft built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and related equipment under a potential $6.35 billion foreign military sales deal. The Australian government asked to buy 24 C-130J-30, the stretch variant of Lockheed’s Hercu...
Boeing (NYSE: BA), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Airbus and Leonardo will advance to the next phase of an estimated $1.15 billion acquisition program to replace the U.K. air force’s Puma HC.2 medium support helicopter platform, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. A British defense ministry spokesperson said the agency intends to ask all four c...
The space business of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will produce submarine-launched fleet ballistic missiles and support deployed systems for both the U.S. and U.K. navies under a potential $1.2 billion contract modification. This award for Trident II D5 support services has a face value of $581.2 million, with the U.S. Navy obligating $147.1 million ...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics segment will develop a common reprogramming tool for the F-35 program under a $111.1 million contract modification awarded by the U.S. Navy. The business will establish network connections to create the CRT and select a service-oriented architecture to modernize software and hardware for use by aircraf...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Red Hat have partnered to support national security missions using artificial intelligence and Kubernetes technologies. Lockheed will use Red Hat Device Edge to equip unmanned aerial systems and other military platforms with updated software designed to enable such systems to manage large AI workloads and speed up the...
The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a potential $476.8 million contract to provide Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems. Army Contracting Command received one offer for the cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract and expects work to run through Aug. 15, 2025, the Department of Defense said Friday. The service will obligate ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) received the most money through Department of Defense contracts during the government’s 2021 fiscal year, according to data from the Pentagon’s Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation. The “Fiscal Year 2021 Defense Spending by State” report...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has booked a $1.99 billion order from NASA to manufacture Orion spacecraft for an additional three human space exploration missions under the Artemis program. The space agency placed the order under the $4.6 billion Orion Production and Operations Contract to procure vehicles for Artemis VI through VIII missions, Lockheed...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) logged a 3 percent jump in fiscal year 2022 third quarter sales to $16.58 billion and three of the company’s four business areas also posted revenue increases for the July-September period. The company reported third quarter net earnings of $6.71 per share, $4.5 higher than the prior year period, and raised...
