The Federal Trade Commission and Lockheed Martin have received recognition at an American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council event for FTC’s identity theft recovery website developed by Lockheed. Lockheed and FTC received the “Impacter Dynamite Award” at the 2016 ACT-IAC Igniting Innovation Awards event for IdentityTheft.gov, a website that …

The U.S. Air Force has selected Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska to house the service branch’s Lockheed Martin-built operational overseas F-35A Lightning II aircraft. The move would allow the Air Force to access 65,000 square miles of available airspace for training on the fifth-generation fighter jets, the Air Force said Monday. “Basing the …

A Lockheed Martin official has said the White House is working to establish a new agency that would take responsibility for the federal security clearance system from the Office of Personnel Management, Federal News Radio reported Friday. Nicole Ogrysko writes Doug Thomas, director for counterintelligence operations and corporate investigations at Lockheed, described the government’s plan to …

The U.S. Navy‘s number-two uniformed officer eyes Lockheed Martin‘s Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile and Raytheon‘s Tomahawk cruise missile as possible options for the Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare program, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. Breaking Defense quoted Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, deputy chief of naval operations,  as saying he wants the military service to compare a …

The Pentagon expects Lockheed Martin to complete the delivery of 36 F-35 fighter jets by the end of 2014, Reuters reported Wednesday. Andrea Shalal writes Air Force Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan, F-35 program manager, revealed flight testing for the final two aircraft is already underway. The completion of orders signals that Lockheed could soon receive majority of …

The Iraqi government expects to receive in September the first batch Lockheed Martin-built F-16 fighter jets out of the 36 it has ordered through the U.S. government for delivery by 2017, Defense News reported Thursday. Lukman Faily, Iraq’s ambassador to the U.S., said the F-16s will be based out of the former U.S. airfield …

The Department of Homeland Security plans to revamp its internal network security methods by implementing a Lockheed Martin-developed intrusion defense chain mechanism known as a “kill chain,” Nextgov reported Friday. Aliya Sternstein writes that kill chain uses predictive analysis of cyber attack behavior and works to deploy countermeasures for stopping an attack at any …

A Lockheed Martin satellite built for the U.S. Air Force‘s Defense Meteorological Satellite Program is scheduled to launch on Thursday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Lockheed said Wednesday that military forecasters use DMSP satellites to monitor global weather systems and gather atmospheric, oceanic, terrestrial and space environment data for deployed …

Lockheed Martin has delivered two C-130J airlifters to the South Korean air force as the country seeks to complement its existing fleet of C-130H aircraft. The company said Tuesday that it will also provide the country’s aircrews with a two-year support program that includes maintenance training for the C-130J Super …

A Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman-built missile detection satellite has entered its operational trial period after the U.S. Air Force concluded post-launch evaluations five months ahead of schedule, Spaceflight Now reported Tuesday. Stephen Clark writes the Space Based Infrared System is part of a $17.6 billion Air Force initiative intended …