Latest Lockheed Corporation Stories

FARNBOROUGH, England, July 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has signed an agreement authorizing Marshall Aerospace to become the world's first commercial company to install C-130 Center Wing Boxes (CWB). Marshall Aerospace is also the first C-130J Heavy Maintenance Centre (HMC) in the world. "As we see the C-130J Super Hercules global fleet expanding, and the demand for the C-130J remaining strong, we need to expand our specialized support network around the...

BETHESDA, Md., June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] today announced its media briefing schedule for the 2012 Farnborough International Airshow. At the show, Lockheed Martin is celebrating its centennial and the innovations and achievements that helped its customers rise to some of the world's most vital challenges. It also looks toward the future by highlighting the global security capabilities and international partnerships that underscore its ongoing commitment...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com NASA has pulled the plug on the Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small (GEMS) explorer mission, which was designed to look into black holes, due to budget cuts. The mission won a NASA competition for a moderately priced space science mission in 2009, and had been scheduled for launch in 2014. Paul Hertz, NASA's astrophysics division director, told reporters on a conference call on Thursday that an independent review team estimated GEMS would be 20 to 30...

ORLANDO, Fla., May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] submitted its proposal today to the U.S. Air Force for the KC-46 Aircrew Training System, a program that will prepare pilots, boom operators and other on-board personnel for air refueling, cargo transport and medical evacuation. The KC-46 Aircrew Training System supports the Air Force's strategy for global mobility. Aircrews will refuel fixed-wing receiver-capable aircraft for the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps...

MARIETTA, Ga., May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Royal Canadian Air Force formally accepted the 17th Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] CC-130J Super Hercules in ceremonies here today, completing the order placed in December 2007. The aircraft will be flown to Canadian Forces Base Trenton later this week. The original contract called for all 17 aircraft to be delivered by the end of 2012. The first CC-130J was accepted in June 2010 and today's acceptance demonstrates the success of the...

MARIETTA, Ga., May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] leadership delivered today the 195th and last F-22 Raptor to U.S. Air Force leadership in a ceremony at the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics site here. With this delivery, the U.S. Air Force now possesses the world's only 5th generation stealth fighter aircraft fleet in the world. "There is no longer any nation that wishes us ill or any adversary who wishes us harm that has any doubt that their actions will have...

ORLANDO, Fla., May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $156 million contract to provide new training devices to accommodate the growing pipeline of C-130J aircrews and maintainers. Lockheed Martin will develop 24 new training devices and provide program management and engineering services under the U.S. Air Force's C-130J Maintenance and Aircrew Training System II, referred to as JMATS II. The devices include weapons systems, enhanced...

MARIETTA, Ga., April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] completed delivery of the 79th and final C-5 Galaxy aircraft of the current Avionics Modernization Program at a ceremony at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., on April 27. "We are very proud of our AMP team," said Greg Ulmer, vice president of the C-5 program, "This delivery continues the ever-growing legacy of the C-5 Galaxy and the critical role it plays in supporting the warfighter across the globe for...

WASHINGTON, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Several million young stars are vying for attention in a new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, a star-forming complex located in the heart of the Tarantula nebula. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The new image comprises one of the largest mosaics ever assembled from Hubble photos and includes observations taken by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3...

WASHINGTON, April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement from NASA's Chief Scientist, Waleed Abdalati, on the Space Telescope Science Institute naming its astronomical database the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST). MAST holds science data from the Hubble Space Telescope and 14 other NASA missions. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) "The Space Telescope Science Institute's decision to name its database for...