MANILA, Philippines. The U.S. State Department approved a sale of 20 F-16 Block 70 fighter jets to the Philippines as part of ongoing efforts to bolster the country's air defense and regional interoperability, the company announced in a statement.

PHOENIX. Honeywell announced that its F-35 Power and Thermal Management System (PTMS) marked one million flight hours since the supersonic F-35 strike fighter aircraft first took flight in late 2006. 

LEEUWARDEN AIR BASE, Netherlands. The Royal Netherlands Air Force and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works demonstrated the first live, in-flight transfer of classified F-35 targeting data to a non-U.S. command-and-control system during the Ramstein Flag multi-domain operations exercise, the company announced in a statement.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. Lockheed Martin is featuring its SPY-7 solid-state radar system this week at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space symposium.

CHERRY HILL, New Jersey. Lockheed Martin won a $15.8 million cost-plus fixed fee contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to develop a tactical electronic warfare (EW) software suite under the Ephemeral Paragon program, according to a U.S. government announcement.

KAUAI, Hawaii. The USS Pinckney (DDG 91) conducted a simulated engagement of a hypersonic medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) using the Aegis Combat System during Flight Test Other-40 (FTX-40), Lockheed Martin announced in a statement.

BETHESDA, Md. Lockheed Martin secured a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Innovation Unit (DIU) to develop a quantum-enabled inertial navigation system (INS) prototype, which is aimed at enabling precise location measurements even in GPS-denied environments.