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Radar/EW
Lockheed Martin completes TPS-77 Multi-Role Radar site acceptance test - News
March 13, 2018
RIGA, Latvia. Lockheed Martin officials announced they met on-time delivery of the first three radars to the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Latvia with a successful site acceptance test of the third TPS-77 Multi-Role Radar (TPS-77 MRR).
Unmanned
Missile Defense Agency signs $80 million contract with Lockheed Martin-led team for ballistic re-entry vehicles - News
March 12, 2018
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Lockheed Martin will lead a team that will work on an $80.6 million fixed-price contract with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on modified ballistic re-entry vehicles and separation modules for missile defense tests.
Unmanned
U.S. Navy orders high-energy laser weapons for shipboard use - News
March 01, 2018
BOTHELL, Wash. Lockheed Martin won a U.S. Navy contract valued initially at $150 million -- with options worth up to $942.8 million -- for the development, manufacture, and delivery of two high-power laser weapon systems that will integrate intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and counter-unmanned aerial system (counter-UAS) capabilities.
Radar/EW
Lockheed Martin moves to mature Freedom-variant FFG(X) conceptual design - News
February 19, 2018
WASHINGTON. U.S. Navy officials approved Lockheed Martin's Freedom-variant Frigate (FFG(X)) design to move forward for the Navy's FFG(X) competition. The contract to mature the conceptual design is valued at $15 million.
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Finnish forces' airborne surveillance system achieves operational capability - News
February 14, 2018
DENVER. The Finnish Defense Forces achieved final operational capability of the Lockheed Martin-built "Dragon Shield" airborne surveillance system. The milestone was achieved after the final flight test of the system, which evaluated compliance of the aircraft to civilian and military airworthiness requirements as well as system requirements verification.
Unmanned
JASSM-ER missile achieves full operational capability - News
February 07, 2018
ORLANDO. The Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) ? Extended Range (ER) recently achieved full operational capability on the F-15E Strike Eagle, flown by the U.S. and allied nations' air forces, according to a statement from missile maker Lockheed Martin.
Radar/EW
VITA 48.8 Air Flow Through Cooling standard lowers SWaP-C on deployed VPX systems - Story
February 07, 2018
The ongoing challenge for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) system developers is to balance the competing approaches to reduce the system's size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) while trying to deploy the most modern technologies. Today, system integrators are confronting a rapidly narrowing margin for achieving that balancing act. While the power and density of devices has increased, platform ambient boundary conditions haven't changed. The result is tighter and tighter margins. The only option: Become more efficient in removing heat from the system.
