Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky Helicopter Plant In Coatesville Closing Next Year
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CBS Philadelphia ^
| 08/19/2021
Lockheed Martin is closing its Sikorsky helicopter plant in Chester County. The Coatesville plant will close in March next year. Two
hundred and forty employees are expected to lose their jobs. The company had intended to close it in 2019. However, it stayed open after pressure from then-President Donald Trump and other Pennsylvania elected officials. Chester County commissioners say they will focus on supporting employees, and coming up with plans for the 22-acre site. The company blames a downturn in the commercial helicopter sector. In a statement, it said: “We were unable to secure enough additional work to sustain operations.”
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A man-made sun that could power our planet is created by a British start-up in Oxfordshire - racing against Amazon and Lockheed Martin
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Daily Mail ^
| 7-14-21 | David Rose
Hundreds of times every month, a British scientist sitting in a high-tech control room in an industrial park in the Thames Valley near Didcot clicks his computer mouse. Each
time he does so, a high-energy beam of subatomic particles is fired into a dark, swirling cloud of superheated hydrogen gas, known as a plasma, contained within a spherical steel tank about 6 ft in diameter. The plasma immediately sparks and glows and at that point has just become the hottest place in the solar system, hotter even than the core of the sun — that is to say, more than...
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Is Lockheed Martin ‘White Privilege' Training a Smokescreen?
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Townhall.com ^
| June 9, 2021 | Manuel Rosales
After getting drafted in the mid-1960s as the Vietnam War intensified, I saw all my fellow Soldiers as “olive drab green.” Despite
my childhood immigration from Nicaragua, going back there didn’t cross my mind. Nor did fleeing to Canada like about 125,000 draft dodgers. Ironically, my father who came to California from Nicaragua in the 1940s was also conscripted and saw combat in Europe for two years. Following the war, he returned to Central America for me and my mother so we could move to San Francisco and pursue the American dream. I worked hard in the corporate and government...
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Lockheed Martin gets $1 billion contract for operations of SBIRS ground systems
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SpaceNews.com ^
| June 5, 2021 | Sandra Erwin —
SBIRS is part of the Defense Department’s missile warning network that detects ballistic missile launches. It
includes a combination of two infrared sensors in highly elliptical orbit and five satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit. Lockheed Martin has been the SBIRS primary contractor since the mid-1990s. The fifth satellite launched May 18. The sixth and final SBIRS is in production and projected to launch in 2022. The five-year sole-source contract is for operations and maintenance of the SBIRS mission control center at Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado, and other operations centers at Peterson Air Force Base and Greeley Air National Guard...
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Lockheed Martin forced top execs including a three-star general to complete three-day Zoom course to 'unlearn their white male privilege' - and it was led by a firm called White Men As Full Diversity Partners
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Daily Mail ^
| May 27, 2021 | Jennifer Smith
Lockheed Martin, the nation's top defense contractor, forced 13 executives including a three-star general to complete a three-day Zoom course so they would 'unlearn their male privilege'. The
course was led by Portland-based firm White Men as Full Diversity Partners. It was carried out last June, at the height of the BLM movement, and involved 13 Lockheed employees dialing in for 16 hours. Details of the three-day course last June were obtained by City Journal. The 13 employees were Director of Aeronautics Mark Ward, Air Force lieutenant colonel David Starr, Senior Design Engineer Jeff Schweiss, Risk Management and Sustainability Executive...
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Former Sen. Harry Reid thinks Lockheed Martin may have UFO fragments
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NYPost ^
| Tamar Lapin
Former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid believes US defense contractor Lockheed Martin may have once had fragments of a crashed UFO in its possession, it was revealed Friday. Reid, 81, told The New Yorker that he had never actually seen proof of the remnants — but tried, unsuccessfully, to get approval from the
Pentagon to find them. “I was told for decades that Lockheed had some of these retrieved materials,” the Democrat told the magazine. “And I tried to get, as I recall, a classified approval by the Pentagon to have me go look at the stuff. They would not approve...
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Lockheed Martin’s SR-72 Darkstar: A Mach 6 Bomber?
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19FortyFive ^
| 1/28/2021 | Peter Suicu
Much debate remains on whether the Lockheed Martin SR-72, affectionately known as the “Son of the Blackbird,” is actually real. It
reportedly could be making an appearance in the upcoming film Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel to the 1986 film Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise. While there is no doubt that the aircraft may be in the production stage, whether it is ready to take to the skies is the other question. Another question is what its actual role could be in the U.S. military, but more on that in a moment.
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Lockheed Martin’s SR-72 Mach 6 Darkstar: What We Know
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19FortyFive ^
| 1/12/2021 | Peter Suicu
It was over twenty years ago the Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” was retired by the United States Air Force, and while surveillance satellites can provide that eye in the sky for intelligence gathering there is still a need for such high flying, ultra-fast aircraft. Such
a platform would complement other manned aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), providing flexibility in how intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) is gathered. Back in 2013, Lockheed Martin proposed a follow-up to the SR-71. Fittingly, it was the SR-72, which has also become known as the “Son of the Blackbird,” and it was suggested that the...
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China To Sanction Lockheed Martin, Boeing Unit Over Taiwan Arms Sale.........(Here we go!)
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ndtv ^
| 10/26/2020 | ndtv
China said Monday it would impose sanctions on Lockheed Martin, a Boeing defence division and other US firms involved in arms sales to Taiwan, the self-governed island that Beijing views as its territory. The
two US giants were involved in a recent sale of nearly $2 billion worth of missiles to Taiwan, alongside Raytheon, and foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian urged the US to stop arms sales to the island. Beijing says Taiwan is an inviolable part of China to be reclaimed, by force if necessary. Zhao said the sanctions were "to safeguard national interests" and would apply to those...
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Beijing Sanctions US Defense Manufacturer Lockheed Martin Over Taiwan Arms Sale
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Epoch Times ^
| 07/14/2020 | Cathy He
Beijing will place unspecified sanctions on Lockheed Martin for its involvement in the latest U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, the second time this week that the regime announced punitive measures against individuals and entities in the United States. The U.S. state department last week approved a request by Taiwan to update its
Patriot surface-to-air missiles at an estimated cost of $620 million. U.S. defense giant Lockheed Martin is the main contractor for this deal. The Chinese regime, which considers self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory, has vowed to unify the island by force, if necessary, and has consistently opposed...
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Lockheed P2V-5/Douglas C-118A mid-air
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Aircraft Wrecks in the Mountains and Deserts of the American West ^
Lockheed P2V-5/Douglas C-118A mid-air 2/1/58 On February 1, 1958 a Lockheed P2V-5 BuNo 127733 USNR departed Los Alamitos Naval Reserve Air Station on a routine training flight with a crew of eight on board. At
about the same time a Douglas C-118A # 53-3277 USAF departed Long Beach Municipal Airport en route to McGuire AFB in New Jersey with forty-one passengers and crew on board. At about 7:15 PM the P2V-5 and the C-118A collided over the city of Norwalk, California killing forty-eight persons including one woman on the ground. Incredibly two men aboard the P2V survived the crash. One...
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Lockheed Martin hired over 160 people in DFW the past 2 weeks, has 700 more openings
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Dallas Business Journal ^
| Apr 8, 2020, 8:30am EDT | Evan Hoopfer
The defense industry is one of few manufacturing sectors in North Texas not reeling from the impact of COVID-19. One of the area's largest employers, Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT), hired 166 people in Dallas-Fort Worth during the past two weeks and is advertising for roughly 700 more open positions in the
area, said company spokesperson Ken Ross. The company builds missile products and fighter jets locally. The additions are part of a broader push by Lockheed Martin to beef up its employee base around the country. The Bethesda, Maryland-based defense contractor said last week it has hired close to...
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Lockheed Martin Potentially Mixed Up Structural Fasteners in Most F-35s
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Airforce Magazine ^
| 01/30/20 | John A. Tirpak
Hundreds of F-35s could have the wrong fasteners in “critical areas,” according to the Defense Contract Management Agency. But F-35 builder Lockheed Martin says the problem may not need to be fixed. “All
aircraft produced prior to discovery of this [problem] have titanium fasteners incorrectly installed in locations where the design calls for Inconel,” the F-35 Joint Program Office said in an email in response to a query from Air Force Magazine. “Because of this, the engineering safety analysis of the issue has assumed that each critical F-35 joint was assembled with the incorrect fasteners.” Inconel is an alloy of...
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Gohmert Exposes Cozy Mueller/Comey Relationship That Made Comey $6 Million Man At Lockheed
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Flopping Aces ^
| 07-29-19 | Daniel John Sobieski
Former FBI Director James Comey, who often can’t recall anything about the crimes committed by himself, his FBI and President Obama’s DOJ, but who lectures pompously and endlessly on ethics in government, recently released a list of questions he felt former special counsel Robert Mueller should be asked at his July 24
Congressional hearings. None of the questions Comey recommended, however, dealt with the long, cozy and lucrative relationship between Comey and Mueller that is at the heart of the FISA fraud and the deep state coup against the incoming Trump Administration. You can figure out how the swamp got...
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Lockheed Martin pays tribute to Trump over Wisconsin expansion
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Big News Network ^
| July 14, 2019 | Lola Evans
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin - Derco, a Lockheed Martin company, is planning to expand its plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by up to 15% by the end of this year. The
expansion is to auger in the development of parts for the F-35 Lighting II fighter jet. Derco has been around since 1979 and is highly regarded in ther defense contracting sector as around 20% of its workforce consists of veterans. U.S. President Donald J. Trump visited the plant on Friday and gave a 30-minute speech. "From here in Milwaukee, you are supporting magnificent aircraft, and soon you'll support the unstoppable, stealth F-35...
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Lockheed Martin CEO: Trump asked me to save Coatesville plant that makes WH helicopters, 465 jobs
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The Philadelphia Inquirer ^
| June 14 2019 | Joseph N. DiStefano
Lockheed Martin chief executive Marillyn Hewson said Friday that she’s thinking about ways to keep her company’s Sikorsky helicopter factory in Coatesville, Chester County, open because President Donald Trump asked her to. “@POTUS
called me today to discuss the pending closure of our Coatesville PA operation. We had an open and constructive conversation and I agreed to explore additional options for keeping the facility open,” Hewson said in a social-media post. Lockheed Martin spokeswoman Callie D. Ferrari confirmed her boss’s statement and said the company has nothing to add. The company had told 465 workers it plans to close the...
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Lockheed Martin, in a Dogfight With Boeing, Puts the F-35 on Sale
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The Motley Fool via Yahoo ^
| May 18th, 2019 | Lou Whiteman
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), seeking to give its F-35 a leg up against a rival fighter offered by Boeing (NYSE: BA), is dramatically reducing the F-35 sticker price for the next batch of jets it will sell to the Pentagon. The aerospace company is offering the base model of the fifth-generation F-35
for $80 million apiece in negotiations with the Pentagon, according to a report from DefenseOne. That's an 11% reduction from the $90 million price last September when the last tranche of the fighters was ordered. The F-35 has been marred with lengthy development delays and cost overruns, but...
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Lockheed Martin adds SPICE to its Weapons
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Defense Update ^
| May 16, 2019 | Tamir Eshel
Lockheed Martin and RAFAEL have signed a cooperation agreement to jointly develop, manufacture, market and support RAFAEL’s Smart, Precise Impact and Cost-Effective (SPICE) missile guidance kits to Lockheed Martin’s platforms. RAFAEL
already subcontracts about 80 percent of SPICE subassemblies to US manufacturers in eight states. The agreement will enable Israel to buy SPICE kits from the USA, using US military support funds. The agreement follows a market assessment evaluation done by the two partners in the past year. “Access to GPS is becoming increasingly limited in contested environments,” said Mr. Yuval Miller, executive vice president, and general manager of Rafael’s...
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Lockheed Martin unveils lunar lander design to get humans to the Moon by 2024
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The Verge ^
| Apr 10, 2019, 3:42pm EDT | Loren Grush
Lockheed Martin is unveiling new designs for a human lunar lander concept that can take people to and from the lunar surface. And
the company says it can be ready within the next five years.... The vehicle consists of two elements: a lander portion that can travel down to the ground, and an ascent vehicle that can lift astronauts off the Moon’s surface. The lander is meant to travel to and from a new space station that NASA wants to build around the Moon called the Gateway. If all of these elements are created, astronauts would travel to the Gateway...
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Lockheed Martin Deletes Claim That Its Rebranded F-21 Could Be A Path To Indian F-35s
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The Drive ^
| FEBRUARY 20, 2019 | JOSEPH TREVITHICK
Lockheed Martin has rebranded its latest advanced F-16 offering for India as the F-21 and has shown the jet would have new features, including a revised glass cockpit and other advanced features. But
the pitch appears to be much more about opportunities industrial cooperation in India, a major factor in the latest iteration of India's fighter jet tender, than technological enhancements. It might even pave the way for the country to join the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program – a claim the company scrubbed from its official F-21 webpage shortly after it went live. The Maryland-headquartered defense contractor revealed models...
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