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The COMSAT Secret Is Out Of The Bag — PAN Power For U.S.
Relevance Score: 6.060 2009-10-06 14:44:31
A nexgen (and secret) satellite, designed and crafted by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] for the U.S. government, is performing as required following its successful launch from Cape Canaveral on September 8th aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle, with the Lockheed Martin team successfully completing a series of key activities toward providing the spacecraft for customer use. The program, designated PAN, was awarded to Lockheed Martin in October of 2006. It consists of a novel and robust turnkey commercial-based satellite, ground and launch system solution developed to meet the government's future needs. The PAN satellite is based on Lockheed Martin's configure-to-order A2100 spacecraft series and leverages mature commercial space technologies and extraordinary Lockheed Martin processes that enabled delivery of a high-quality, low-cost solution with reduced cycle times for the government clients.
Lockheed Martin And Adaptive Digital Informed About An Agreement
Relevance Score: 5.483 2010-03-11 21:54:47
See the PowerRating of LMT now and learn how it rates on a 1-10 scale. The higher the PowerRating, the greater potential short-term gain based on historical data. Global security company Lockheed Martin and Adaptive Digital Technologies have inked an agreement to introduce Lockheed Martin's voice compression technology Time Domain Voicing Cutoff (TDVC) to commercial markets, Lockheed Martin announced on Friday. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. According to the company, TDVC is a speech-coding algorithm that delivers high voice quality while operating at lower bit rates than standard voice codecs of comparable quality. It is suitable for voice over Internet protocol wireless communications as well as other markets. TDVC vocoder was developed for military applications where it provided a low bandwidth, high voice-quality coding scheme to combat harsh communication environments. It is expected to find the same success in the commercial communication arenas due to the continuing need for more bandwidth to accommodate the increasing number of users and data. Adaptive Digital is a developer of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms and custom solutions for VoIP, telephony, audio and video applications. For full details on Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT) LMT. Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT) has Short Term PowerRatings at TradingMarkets. Details on Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT) Short.
LockMart Awarded Contract To Develop USAF Next-Gen Long-Range Radar
Relevance Score: 5.161 2009-06-12 09:01:06
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a fixed-price contract for nearly $25 million to develop a prototype for the next-generation 3-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar (3DELRR). Lockheed Martin was one of two industry teams placed under contract for the technical development of this new land-based radar. The Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base leads the acquisition for the new radar. The Air Force plans to replace its entire TPS-75 long-range radar inventory with the 3DELRR, which will detect, identify, track and report aircraft and missiles. Following a 20-month Technical Development Phase, the Air Force has said it intends to competitively award one contract for system development in the 2011 timeframe. "Lockheed Martin will leverage our years of experience in developing transportable long-range radars to provide our long-time Air Force customer with a radar that will meet its mission requirements," said Carl Bannar, vice president of Lockheed Martin's radar business in Syracuse, NY. "We are honored to have been selected to continue development on 3DELRR, and intend to demonstrate that we have the best solution." Lockheed Martin built the first next-generation long-range radar, the AN/TPS-59. There are more than 170 of the company's radars - including the TPS-59, the AN/FPS-117 and the AN/TPS-77 - operating throughout the world. The radars are used in areas such as battle theaters and very remote locations; none has ever been removed from service.
Lockheed Martin meeting GPS milestones
Relevance Score: 4.758 2009-03-09 15:22:10
Lockheed Martin Corp. said Monday that the team it is leading to develop the next generation of Global Positioning System satellites has met its required milestones so far. The Bethesda, Md.-based defense contractor said its team has completed 19 of the 71 milestones in the program’s preliminary design review phase. The Air Force will conduct an overall performance design review in May to ensure the preliminary design meets defense and civil requirements. If it does, the project will move into the critical design review phase. The team is working under a $1.4 billion contract awarded last May that calls for it to produce the first two next-generation GPS satellites, the first of which is projected to be launched in 2014. The contract also contains options for up to 10 additional spacecraft. Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) Space Systems in Newtown, Pa., leads the team, which also includes the Clifton, N.J.-based Space Systems Division of ITT Corp. (NYSE:ITT) and the Gilbert, Ariz.-based C4 Systems unit of General Dynamics Corp. (NYSE:GD).
LockMart Receives Worldwide LANTIRN Depot Award
Relevance Score: 4.660 2009-07-15 18:08:57
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a five-year, $60 million contract to continue depot maintenance support for LANTIRN navigation and targeting pods at the Lockheed Martin Warner Robins Worldwide Depot. The depot supports repairs on LANTIRN pods for both U.S. Air Force and foreign military sales customers. LANTIRN navigation and targeting pods provide aviators with enhanced range, resolution and reliability. Under provisions of the contract, Lockheed Martin will continue to operate the government-owned Worldwide Depot at Warner Robins Air Force Base, GA, through 2014. "Lockheed Martin is proud of its 11-year partnership with the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center to keep LANTIRN pods available and battle-ready," said David Ragsdale, LANTIRN product support manager at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. "Our depot employees and U.S. Air Force team provide quick-turn repairs on LANTIRN assets with a commient to quality. We "proud to be given the opportunity to continue this support." The Worldwide Depot is located alongside the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, strengthening a close partnership that has been a key factor in achieving LANTIRN fully-mission capable rates exceeding 90 percent. "The renewal of this contract represents much more than the renewal of the successful public-private partnership between the U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin," said Marty Hutchinson, Air Force Precision Attack System program director at Warner Robins AFB. "It represents the continuation of our joint commient to meeting the worldwide mission needs of LANTIRN Warfighters by providing them timely and highly effective LANTIRN support." LANTIRN Extended Range (ER), an upgraded version of the highly successful LANTIRN, allows aircrews to operate in daylight or darkness, at mission altitudes from sea level to 40,000 feet, all with outstanding targeting performance. LANTIRN ER is offered as a newly fabricated pod, or as an upgrade to existing pods. The LANTIRN ER targeting pod is deployed and combat-proven on the U.S. Navy S-3B, and is integrated and tested on the P-3.
US Army Awards $142m Arrowhead Production Contract to Lockheed
Relevance Score: 4.528 2009-07-30 12:19:39
The US Army has awarded a $142m contract to Lockheed Martin to provide 55 Apache Arrowhead systems for its AH-64D Apache attack helicopters. The Apache Arrowhead is a combat-proven night-vision targeting system that uses second generation long-wave infrared sensors specifically designed for the Apache. The Arrowhead kits overhaul the Army's Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor providing the Apache pilots advanced long-range, electro-optical precision engagement and pilotage capabilities, ensuring safe flight in all weather conditions. Lockheed Martin Apache fire control vice-president Bob Gunning said the Arrowhead will enhance system reliability and maintainability while improving Apache operation in severe environments at increased tempo. Under the contract, the company will provide 55 Arrowhead kits.
Sikorsky, Lockheed Team Up To Make Bid To Build Presidential Helicopter
Relevance Score: 4.460 2010-04-29 14:28:00
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. will work with a former rival in a new competition to provide the next U.S. presidential helicopter, Marine One, the companies informed. In a joint announcement, Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin Corp. said they had cut a deal "to compete jointly" for the program, valued five years ago at $6 billion. Lockheed beat Stratford-based Sikorsky for the same project in 2005, but later lost the contract because of extreme cost overruns. Under Lockheed, program costs swelled to $13 billion for 28 aircraft. The 2005 loss was a bitter blow for Sikorsky, a division of United Technologies Corp. that has supplied the presidential helicopter for decades, and still does. Sikorsky and Lockheed, which is based in Maryland, informed they would offer a version of Sikorsky's H-92 medium-lift helicopter. Lockheed would supply major components. "We're thrilled to team with Lockheed Martin to provide taxpayers and the U.S. government with a common-sense solution for the next presidential aircraft both in terms of economy and technology," Scott Starrett, president of Sikorsky Military Systems, informed in a statement. Barack Obama, campaigning for president in 2008, argued against a new Marine One in 2008, saying that the old fleet would be fine for shuttling him around if he won the White House. This new aircraft would enter service after Obama leaves office. In February, the Navy advertised that it has resumed looking for a replacement for the Marine One fleet, with the first new helicopter entering service in 2017 at the earliest. The Sikorsky-Lockheed partnership does not come as a complete surprise. Last June, Sikorsky President Jeff Pino floated the idea at the Paris Air Show. Sikorsky and Lockheed have cooperated on other military projects for decades.
Lockheed Martin Wins $243 Million Air Force Contract
Relevance Score: 4.440 2010-02-05 16:07:29
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) has received a U.S. Air Force contract valued at $243.5 million for an eighth production lot of the JASSM cruise missile. The company said the award brings the total contracted quantities of the cruise missile to over 1,200. The Lot 8 contract is for 158 JASSM missiles, along with fuze reliability, parts obsolescence efforts, test instrumentation kits, system reliability and flight test support. JASSM is a 2,000-pound class weapon with a penetrator/blast fragmentation warhead. It has eight production lots under contract toward a total objective of 4,900 JASSM and JASSM-ER (Extended Range) missiles. Lockheed Martin also produces the baseline JASSM for foreign military sale customers.
Lockheed Martin — Determined DSCS Does A Decade
Relevance Score: 4.163 2010-03-01 17:58:56
The U.S. Air Force’s Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) B8 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], has now surpassed its 10-year design life of on-orbit service in providing secure and reliable communications capabilities for the warfighter. Launched from Cape Canaveral on Jan. 20, 2000, the B8 satellite is one of 14 DSCS III spacecraft designed and built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems for the MILSATCOM Systems Wing at the Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California. The satellite is also the first of four DSCS III satellites to feature Service Life Enhancement Program (SLEP) upgrades that enabled a 200-percent increase in communication capacity over original DSCS III spacecraft with its 50-watt Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers. The system provides uninterrupted secure voice and high-data rate communications to Department of Defense users; essential tools in monitoring events and deploying and sustaining forces anywhere in the world. In 2009, the overall DSCS III constellation surpassed 200 years of on-orbit operations, the longest total operational experience of any U.S. military communications satellite constellation. Lockheed Martin is also progressing on the Department of Defense’s highly secure communications satellite system, the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program. As the successor to Milstar, AEHF will increase data rates by a factor of five, permitting transmission of more tactical military communications, such as real-time video, battlefield maps and targeting data. The first AEHF spacecraft has completed final testing and is planned for delivery to the Air Force in second quarter 2010.
Military Communications Satellite Created by Lockheed Martin Achieves 10 Years in Service
Relevance Score: 4.092 2010-02-27 16:06:08
The U.S. Air Force's Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) B8 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has surpassed its 10-year design life of on-orbit service in providing secure and reliable communications capabilities for the warfighter. Launched from Cape Canaveral on Jan. 20, 2000, the B8 satellite is one of 14 DSCS III spacecraft designed and built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems for the MILSATCOM Systems Wing at the Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif. The satellite is also the first of four DSCS III satellites to feature Service Life Enhancement Program (SLEP) upgrades that enabled a 200-percent increase in communication capacity over original DSCS III spacecraft with its 50-watt Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers. "The high performance and longevity of the DSCS III constellation is direct testimony to a joint U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin team dedicated to providing the warfighter with secure and reliable satellite communications," informed Kevin Bilger, Lockheed Martin's vice president and general manager of Global Communications Systems. "The DSCS III constellation has provided the Department of Defense with its core communications capability for over two decades and will continue to make a significant contribution to our national security well into the future." The system delivers uninterrupted secure voice and high-data rate communications to Department of Defense users; essential tools in monitoring events and deploying and sustaining forces anywhere in the world. In 2009, the overall DSCS III constellation surpassed 200 years of on-orbit operations, the longest total operational experience of any U.S. military communications satellite constellation. Lockheed Martin is also progressing on the Department of Defense's highly secure communications satellite system, the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program. As the successor to Milstar, AEHF will increase data rates by a factor of five, permitting transmission of more tactical military communications, such as real-time video, battlefield maps and targeting data. The first AEHF spacecraft has completed final testing and is planned for delivery to the Air Force in second quarter 2010. Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security company that employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, production, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Corporation reported 2009 sales of $45.2 billion.