Defense Industry
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Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors has received a $1 billion contract from the Naval Air Systems Command, the Defense Department said. Lockheed will provide new avionics and display systems for military aircraft.
April 06, 2012 -
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden talks about his agency\'s fiscal health and top priorities, which extends from low-earth orbit to Mars and beyond.
November 29, 2011 -
The new ceiling on the deal is $7.4 billion. The planes have never been used in combat and have in fact been grounded several times due to ongoing issues with the Onboard Oxygen Generating System and other malfunctions.
November 23, 2011 -
Curt Aubley, vice president and chief technology officer of Lockheed Information Systems and Global Solutions, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss what the partnership means for the federal government.
November 18, 2011 -
Under the $40 million deal, ICE wants a modernized system that gives investigators access to more than 100 disparate databases.
November 15, 2011 -
The Lockheed Martin NextGen Cyber Innovation and Technology Center is already under construction. It is expected to open in March and will house 200 employees. The system will run three private clouds and one public cloud.
November 11, 2011 -
The Air Force\'s B-2 stealth bomber fleet is getting ready to go under the knife.
November 10, 2011 -
Two senior senators will introduce an amendment to the DoD authorization bill to increase the oversight over the IT supply chain. A preliminary report from GAO finds counterfeit technology parts easily making their way into weapons systems.
November 09, 2011 -
he leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee say counterfeit electronic parts, mostly from China, are flooding the supply chain for the Pentagon.
November 07, 2011 -
As MilCom conference gets underway, Roger Krone, president of Boeing Network and Space Systems, discusses challenges of taking broadband communications mobile.
November 07, 2011 -
SafeGov.org aims to provide government with a greater understanding of the benefits of cloud computing.
November 01, 2011 -
An uncertain spending budget at the Defense Department isn\'t stopping large defense contracting companies from turning a solid profit.
October 27, 2011 -
Lee Holcomb, a senior vice president at Lockheed Martin and this year's industry chair of the Executive Leadership Conference, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss the federal mobility push — the theme of this year's conference, which kicks off this weekend.
October 21, 2011 -
The Pentagon says the program costs too much to keep it going.
October 14, 2011 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission has released new guidance for how companies should disclose cyberattacks. The guidance comes after Sen. Jay Rockefeller asked the SEC to issue it, so companies would be compelled to reveal any cyberattacks that lead to losses.
October 14, 2011
