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Lockheed Martin

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Bethesda, Maryland, United States
www.lockheedmartin.com
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Lockheed Martin, Ball Aerospace, and L3Harris received contracts from the Defense Innovation Unit in April 2019 to develop phased array antenna prototypes.

NARRATIVE PLAN9/29/2020Space Force weighing options to modernize ground antennas for military satellites

Lockheed Martin is one of the two companies selected to build 10 satellites each for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 0.

ORG RELATIONSHIP9/17/2020Space Development Agency praised as change agent in Pentagon procurement

Lockheed Martin received a $51,200,000 contract on 2020-09-16 to begin integrating U.S. missile warning satellites with a new ground system.

ORG RELATIONSHIP9/16/2020Military early warning satellites to begin migration to new ground system

The transition of SBIRS (either GEO-5 or GEO-6) to EGS will serve as a pathfinder for the migration of three Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) satellites that Lockheed Martin is developing.

NARRATIVE PLAN9/16/2020Military early warning satellites to begin migration to new ground system

Lockheed Martin previously worked with Tyvak on a mesh network demonstration in space known as Pony Express.

TECHNICAL PRODUCT9/1/2020Lockheed Martin enlists Tyvak and Telesat for Space Development Agency contract

Lockheed Martin won a $187,500,000 contract from the Space Development Agency for Transport Layer Tranche 0 satellites.

ORG RELATIONSHIP9/1/2020Lockheed Martin enlists Tyvak and Telesat for Space Development Agency contract

Lockheed Martin will build 10 satellites for the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency using small buses from Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems.

NARRATIVE PLAN9/1/2020Lockheed Martin enlists Tyvak and Telesat for Space Development Agency contract

Lockheed Martin received a $187,500,000 contract for Transport Layer Tranche 0 satellites.

ORG RELATIONSHIP8/31/2020Lockheed Martin, York Space to produce 20 satellites for Space Development Agency

Lockheed Martin is using the collaboration with USC to test its new software-defined satellite technology and to provide students experience building satellites with real-world applications.

NARRATIVE GROWTH8/4/2020Lockheed Martin teams with USC and Momentus on cubesat program

The payload for the 2020-06-30 launch cost $568,000,000 and was the third GPS III satellite built by Lockheed Martin.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL6/30/2020SpaceX launches a U.S. Space Force GPS 3 satellite, recovers rocket’s first stage

Lockheed Martin received a $2,900,000,000 contract in August 2018 to build three Next-Gen OPIR geosynchronous satellites.

ORG RELATIONSHIP5/25/2020Two payloads qualified for U.S. Space Force early warning satellites

Lockheed Martin will perform the Blackjack satellite integration work at its satellite manufacturing plant in Sunnyvale, California.

NARRATIVE GROWTH4/24/2020Lockheed Martin wins DARPA contract to integrate Blackjack satellites

Lockheed Martin’s space unit recorded an operating profit of $281,000,000 in the first quarter of 2020.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL4/21/2020Lockheed Martin beginning to feel impact of pandemic

Lockheed Martin received a $462,000,000 contract in December 2018 to add cybersecurity enhancements and maintain the COps system until 2025.

ORG RELATIONSHIP3/28/2020GPS ground system gets cybersecurity upgrade as OCX faces new schedule setback

Lockheed Martin was selected as the prime contractor for the Space Fence in 2014.

ORG RELATIONSHIP3/28/2020Space Fence surveillance radar site declared operational

Lockheed Martin is under contract to produce 10 GPS 3 satellites and 22 GPS 3 Follow-On models.

ORG RELATIONSHIP3/6/2020Space Force’s 2021 budget plan is heavy on satellites and launch

The 2021 budget includes $628,000,000 to acquire two GPS 3 Follow-On satellites from Lockheed Martin.

ORG RELATIONSHIP3/6/2020Space Force’s 2021 budget plan is heavy on satellites and launch

The two final SBIRS spacecraft made by Lockheed Martin are scheduled to launch in 2021 and 2022.

NARRATIVE PLAN3/6/2020Space Force’s 2021 budget plan is heavy on satellites and launch

Lockheed Martin received a $240,000,000 contract for Protected Tactical Satcom payload development.

ORG RELATIONSHIP3/4/2020Boeing, Lockheed win U.S. Space Force contracts to develop satcom payloads

Lockheed Martin will acquire the satellite technology assets of Vector by default after a bankruptcy court received no qualified bids by the 2020-02-21 deadline.

ORG RELATIONSHIP2/24/2020Lockheed to obtain Vector satellite assets
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