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The F-35 fighter aircraft is seen at Lockheed Martin's production plant in Fort Worth, Texas August 31, 2009.

" Lockheed Martin has strong hopes of clinching a sale of the F-16 fighter with an undisclosed Arab country in the near future, said Rick Groesch, regional vice president for the Middle East.

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The littoral combat ship Independence this week successfully completed acceptance trials, the last set of tests before the vessel is handed over to the U.S. Navy, the Navy said Thursday.

FORT WORTH, Texas : Lockheed Martin's first optimized conventional takeoff and landing F-35 Lightning II fighter made its inaugural flight on Saturday, Nov.

BAE Systems has questioned the safety of a rival turret design being bid by Lockheed Martin UK in a 1 billion pound competition to upgrade the British Army's Warrior infantry fighting vehicle.

The U.S. Census Bureau and Lockheed Martin today unveiled two new facilities in Phoenix, Ariz., to support the data capture efforts required for the 2010 Census.

Tuesday November 17th, 2009 Flyte Systems Implements Airport Information Displays at Oracle and Lockheed Martin Facilities Corporate headquarters, training centers benefit from real-time airport travel information and boarding pass printing.

Computer Sciences Corp., an information technology services company, said Monday it has won a $75 million subcontract from Lockheed Martin Corp.

Lockheed Martin announced Monday it will realign its Electronic Systems business and will need to cut more jobs early next year.

By BOB COX Lockheed Martin officials say the company is well on its way to surmounting the worst of the obstacles faced in building test airplanes for the F-35 joint strike fighter program.2009 'has been the most challenging year, but we knew it would be,' said Dan Crowley, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.

Lockheed Martin Corp. has given CSC a subcontract on its big Census Bureau job in Baltimore County worth $75 million over the 15-month life of the contract.

Lockheed Martin Corp. announced Monday a reorganization of its Electronic Systems business, including appointing a new head of the division, which makes the Aegis ballistic missile and the Pac-3 surface-to-air guided missile.

Lockheed Martin Corp. and a dozen other companies have a new research and development center where they can collaborate on new ways to fight cyber-security threats.

Honoring the fallen...State budget projection...Talking gene ARLINGTON, Va. Families of troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq have had a surprise visit with President Barack Obama.

Lockheed Martin today announced the opening of its NexGen Cyber Innovation and Technology Center, a world-class research and development center for customer and partner collaboration located in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Source: Lockheed Martin Corporation - Comments Lockheed Martin is in the final stages of preparation for Saturday's launch of a commercial telecommunications satellite for Intelsat, the world's leading provider of fixed satellite services, aboard an Atlas V booster provided by United Launch ...

A former engineer for defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. claims in a federal whistleblower lawsuit that the company knowingly used "defective" stealth coatings when building its F-22 Raptor stealth jets.

The largest defense deal in Israeli history, for the purchase of the F-35 stealth fighter aircraft, is advancing, slowly but surely.

Military trucker Oshkosh continued to stay one step ahead of the competition this week.