Company Watch - Lockheed.Edited by Aram Gesar, edit@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, data, analysis and features, please go to: http://www.AirGuideOnline.com/professional.htm Sep 18, 2006 Lockheed starts engine runs for Joint Strike Fighter A strike fighter is a fighter aircraft which is also capable of attacking surface targets, including ships. It differs from an attack aircraft in that the aircraft remains a capable fighter. . Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. this week will start engine runs on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Company managers said the Oct. 31 target date for the plane's first flight could slip into early November. Design changes to lower the plane's weight created a three-month delay. Sep 11, 2006 Lockheed gets contract extension for space infrared An invisible band of radiation at the lower end of the visible light spectrum. With wavelengths from 750 nm to 1 mm, infrared starts at the end of the microwave spectrum and ends at the beginning of visible light. system. Lockheed Martin has received a contract extension worth $58.3 million to help develop a space-based infrared system  This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one or [ improve this article] yourself. See the talk page for details. for the Air Force. The company will finish the work in September 2007. Sep 11, 2006 Lockheed to sell stake in Russian rocket ventures. Lockheed Martin wants to focus on Pentagon Pentagon Huge five-sided building (1941–43) in Arlington, Va., that is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. Designed by George Edwin Bergstrom, it was, on its completion, the world's largest office building, covering 34 acres (14 hectares) and offering space programs and space exploration and is scaling back its commercial space business. The company will sell its stake in two Russian rocket-launch joint ventures. Sep 11, 2006 |
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