Lockheed-Martin stated that they fully expect to deliver a qualified product to operational test and evaluation as scheduled.
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Companies that remained or came--Lockheed-Martin, New Process Gear, Crouse-Hinds--couldn't absorb all the slack.
In the case of Lockheed-Martin ( LMT), however, those fears have been overdone.
According to Mark Matney of Lockheed-Martin, who works at the Orbital Debris Programme Office at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, shielding is an increasing influence on satellite design.
The company behind the product is an engineering development outfit with 35 employees (Engineers and Scientists) that has been retained to complete projects for Boeing, 3M Corporation, Oakley, Lockheed-Martin and others.
In December it was disclosed that Iraq would be allowed to acquire 36 single-engine Lockheed Martin F-16s and that Oman would double its fleet of the same plane to 24 aircraft.
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At the event, execs at some of the biggest names in the defense business--Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, among others--made their case to investors.
When assembly is completed, HMS Queen Elizabeth will be a 280m (919ft)-long carrier capable of deploying up to 40 Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft.
Companies like U.K. firm Vodafone, U.S.-based Lockheed Martin and China's Haier Group landed toward the bottom of the list, with scores under 65--but they aren't losers by many means.
The firms with the most open positions: Microsoft, Northrop Grumman (nyse: NOC - news - people ), Lockheed Martin (nyse: LMT - news - people ) and General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ).
D-Wave Systems announced today that it has signed a multi-year contract with Lockheed Martin that includes the sale of its D-Wave One system, which is the first commercially available quantum computer.
When assembly is completed, HMS Queen Elizabeth will be a 280m (919ft) long carrier capable of deploying up to 40 Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft.
The Navy plans to continue using the extremely reliable Lockheed Martin D-5 ballistic missile, which has seen 135 consecutive test launches without mishap.
Japan has also ordered 16 Lockheed Martin ground-based Patriot Advance Capability-3 missiles to protect critical targets and get a second shot at incoming missiles if the SM-3s miss.
"We were given targets of taking man-hours and training hours off the ship, " said Rich Lockwood, director of the Advanced Naval and C4I Program for Lockheed Martin NESS - Surface Systems.
The Lockheed Martin F-35C that the Navy is officially planning to buy is a stealthy, single-engine strike fighter derived from the same technologies as the Air Force F-35A and Marine Corps F-35B.
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Raytheon's SM-3 has successfully intercepted five of six missiles in tests, and Lockheed Martin's PAC-3 has succeeded in 17 out of 19 tries.
The Carbon Nanostructures Consortium an industry-led, multi-sector effort established by Lockheed Martin to accelerate the development and transition of affordable, high-performance carbon nanostructure-enhanced materials.
My favorite example of this occurred a decade ago, when Boeing convinced the intelligence community that it could build the next generation of photo-reconnaissance spy satellites better than 40-year incumbent Lockheed Martin could.
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Europe's firms can help themselves by forming closer links with their American counterparts (as British Aerospace has done by co-operating with Lockheed Martin on a new scout vehicle and on America's new Joint Strike Fighter).
Departing executive Lawson is generally considered to have done a competent job of putting the F-35 on a sustainable track while maintaining the profitability of other Lockheed Martin aircraft franchises such as the C-130 airlifter and F-16 fighter.
The feisty 67-year-old partner of Semtek International, a small telecom company, has dedicated much of his life since the mid-1990s to a long-shot legal battle against two powerful foes: the Russian government and U.S. defense giant Lockheed Martin (nyse: LMT - news - people ).
At present the K-MAX has no defensive systems, but Lockheed Martin says the helicopters could easily be fitted with armour, machine-gun pods or flares which could be fired as decoys to divert ground-launched missiles.
India also purchased Super Hercules C-130J military-transport planes from Lockheed Martin Corp.
Lockheed Martin ( LMT - news - people ), could see annual economic growth of nearly 4% during the same period.
The move will be a major boost to Lockheed Martin, whose F-35 programme has been criticised in the US for its high cost and production delays.
The high-performance systems that Lockheed Martin develops require a range of technologies, including cloud computing, biometrics, information management, modeling and simulation, precision pointing, energy management and storage, optics and electro-optics, and nanotechnology.
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In July 2010, the FBI issued a stop-work order to contractor Lockheed Martin Corp.
Although this idea is several decades old, Lockheed Martin flew the first large-scale hybrid prototype only this year.
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