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Lockheed-owned Sikorsky operates as a subcontractor to Turkish Aerospace Industries on the TUHP program.

A GA-ASI spokesman defended the company’s Increment 1 prototype, but did not criticize the remarks directly.

Though Lockheed managed earnings of per share of $6.80, beating Wall Street’s expectations, sales declined 1% year-over-year to $17.1 billion.

The mission would deliver back to Earth scientifically selected samples of the Martian surface being gathered by the agency’s Mars Perseverance rover.

The memorandum of understanding would allow Lockheed to establish a final assembly line between 2028 and 2030 for the tactical missile in the GMLRS.

A market survey released on Oct. 10 by the MDA calls for industry to submit ideas for “low-cost interceptors.”

When the U.S. Army began developing a utility helicopter in the 1960s, it faced the unenviable task of replacing arguably the most storied rotorcraft to date.

Lockheed Martin-Sikorsky is studying the technology transfer of its X2 to KAI if the CH-53K King Stallion is for South Korea’s heavy-lift helicopter program.

The startup aims for flight certification of a digital twin before the aircraft is physically built.

As satellite operators turn to smaller, proliferated spacecraft to protect space-based capabilities, industry sees ground stations as a new target for attacks.

The Denver-based aerospace company is on contract for more than 130 satellites to build out the SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).

NOAA expects Lockheed to deliver the fully instrumented aircraft in 2030.

The U.S. and Japan have chosen Northrop Grumman to continue development of a new long-range hypersonic defense system known as the glide phase interceptor.

The USAF secretary is targeting an F-22 replacement's per-unit cost near that of an F-35 or F-15EX .

Increasingly, defense plans in Europe are converting to contracts for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 and Eurofighter’s Typhoon, giving industry executives on both sides of the Atlantic reason to be optimistic.

The service’s Evolved Strategic Satcom (ESS) program office is completing source selection and expects to announce a contract award by early 2025.

The FAA has certified a one-time life extension for main gearbox housings for the Sikorsky S-92 twin-engine heavy helicopter.

Service leaders have said the NGAD fighter competition is on pause.

The missile was unveiled Sept. 16 at the Air & Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference.

The UK should consider acquiring U.S.-developed hypersonic weapons until it can fully resource nationally developed weapons, a think tank says.

Lockheed Martin says timing issues around the next lot of F-35 JSF production could affect sales and cashflow.

The service hopes to progress on F/A-18, T-45 and MH-60 replacements, though ship- and submarine-building requirements are likely to take priority.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

From trainers to missiles, Japan is putting money behind efforts to build a military with more punch.

The Space Development Agency is about to put the first operational satellites in its Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture on orbit.