Lockheed Martin News

Jun 01, 2012 -- Lockheed Martin has been selected to prime the Enterprise Standard Architecture IV contract supplying managed information technology services and secure technology solutions to the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Marshals Service .

A Missouri woman risked her career to blow the whistle on fraud in Citigroup's mortgage department, but was quite handsomely rewarded, Bloomberg Markets reports.

AKRON, Ohio, May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin completed its most recent Persistent Threat Detection System order by delivering the 29th unit to the U.S. Army May 29.

HERNDON, Va., May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Known for innovation and IT systems integration, Lockheed Martin has been selected by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic to provide integrated command and control systems and services support through a contract that serves the U.S. Navy and a host of DoD stakeholders.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Navy conducted successful test flights April 14 and 16 of four Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missiles built by Lockheed Martin .

My company recently announced that it achieved a set of aggressive five-year global environmental goals a year ahead of schedule, as part of our Go Green commitment made in 2008.

No one ever wants to own stocks that aren't household names. While companies such as Apple , McDonald's , and Phillip Morris' spinoff Altria get all the attention, companies in the defense sector have quietly been consistently raising dividend payouts by over 15% a year the last couple years.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is opposing new cybersecurity legislation because he fears a "cyber-industrial complex that has an interest in preserving the problem to which it is the solution," Politico.com reported.

Officials cite significant contract changes. The launch of the first GPS III satellite has slipped to 2015 and completion of the ground control system is now delayed by up to two years, according to the chief of the Air Force's space operationsA A "We'll be ready to launch the first GPS III in 2015, but it now appears the next generation GPS ... (more)

ROCKVILLE, Md., May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has been selected as a contractor authorized to compete for task orders on a Government-Wide Acquisition Contracting vehicle managed by the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center .

Given the recent allegations by F-22 Raptor pilots that the aircraft has potentially deadly oxygen-system problems , it's not surprising that questions are also being raised about the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter-which has strikingly similar design elements.

The Obama administration and military leaders recently announced plans for U.S. troops to leave Afghanistan by 2014.

Lockheed Martin is putting temporary workers on its Fort Worth, Texas, aircraft assembly plant to replace striking Machinists' union members.

Lockheed Martin Corp. officials will be in San Antonio on Wednesday to set up an interactive simulation of the company's F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.

Lockheed Martin Wins Contract to Deliver Innovative Platform of Secure IT and Data Solutions to ATF, U.S. Marshals Service ROCKVILLE, Md., May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lockheed Martin has been selected to prime the Enterprise Standard Architecture IV contract supplying managed information technology services and secure technology ... (more)

America is supposed to wind down its war in Afghanistan by 2014. But U.S. forces may continue to track Afghans for years after the conflict is officially done.

Following up on a strong 2011 that saw $50.2 billion in dividend increases, according to Standard & Poor's data, dividend increases surged to a record $24.2 billion in the first quarter of 2012, a year-over-year increase of almost 28% and the good times haven't stopped there.

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Right now, I am bullish on U.S. fixed-income securities, U.S. equities, crude oil, and gold, although equities could be in the process of going into an intermediate-term decline as part of an overall major decline.

This week, photo-blogger Benjamin Chesterton took photographer Ron Haviv, and his agency, VII, to task for commercial photographs Ron did for arms manufacturers Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems.