ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Air Force (USAF) announced the selection of five companies that will develop autonomous aircraft for the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Anduril, and General Atomics. 

WASHINGTON. The Space Development Agency (an agency within the U.S. Space Force) announced plans to acquire 20 satellites carrying a new type of payload to outfit a military communications network. 

PALMDALE, Calif. NASA and its design partners officially rolled out the X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft on Friday, January 12, at prime contractor Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility Palmdale, California. The X-59 is the centerpiece of NASA’s Quesst mission, which aims to make sonic booms quieter, one of the major challenges to supersonic flight over land.

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Army's Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors (PEO IEW&S) chose Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to develop spying and jamming payloads for uncrewed aerial systems (UASs) that can be catapulted from a moving vehicle or larger aircraft.

DENVER, Colo. Lockheed Martin is slated to launch a new wideband electronically steerable antenna (ESA) payload demonstrator aboard the Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket to illustrate how its technology will aid in increasing the efficiency and speed of on-orbit missions. 

BETHESDA, Md. and ESPOO, Finland. Lockheed Martin and Finnish R&D engineering agency VTT signed a cooperation agreement to lead a consortium to develop signals-intelligence technologies aimed at benefiting the global defense industry. 

BETHESDA, Md. Lockheed Martin announced that it plans to launch a payload to orbit next year to demonstrate 5G connectivity from space, part of a larger project -- which the company calls 5G.MIL -- begun in 2020 in response to military demand for high-speed wireless communications.