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Ayar Labs captures $155M to bring light into chip manufacturing

Three of the world's most notable chip manufacturers and Lockheed Martin's venture capital arm are investors in Ayar Labs, which is touting light transfer as an answer to the artificial intelligence-energy quandary.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Growth and strategy leadership moves across the market

A pair of appointments to boards of directors also feature a high-profile consulting firm and a global defense giant.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Lockheed details executive transitions in its enterprise, engineering functions

The defense giant's famed Skunk Works advanced development division is also getting a new leader.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Inversion closes $44M Series A round

Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm is one of a handful of investors in this company looking to further enable autonomous delivery and re-entry from space.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Undersea drone startup fetches $16M to aid hiring, manufacturing push

Lockheed Martin Ventures, RTX Ventures, SAIC Ventures and In-Q-Tel are the GovCon names involved in this investment round.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Quantum startup stretches Series B round to $133M, adds Lockheed's venture arm

First launched in 2017, Q-CTRL is looking to further advance its quantum computing software for use in larger-scaled commercial and government deployments.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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A trio of space startup investment rounds to highlight

The venture arms of AE Industrial Partners, Lockheed Martin and RTX are among the notable names at the heart of these investments.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Lockheed to acquire spacecraft maker Terran Orbital

This represents the global defense giant's first move to buy a company it first backed through its venture capital arm.

  • By Ross Wilkers

AI and rockets mark the week's space investments

The venture capital arms of Boeing, Booz Allen Hamilton and Lockheed Martin are among those involved in the deals.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Growth, operational and tech leadership moves across the market

Plus a former Air Force secretary and intelligence agency director join the boards at two blue chip defense hardware companies.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Air Force marks key signpost in robot wingmen award

Anduril and General Atomics are well known in the defense industry. But their selections for phase one of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program stand out for who they went up against and where the tech is going.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Sikorsky, Rain demo autonomous firefighting helicopter

The companies integrated their autonomous flight and wildfire detection technologies into a Black Hawk helicopter.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Air Force chooses 17 for $499M anti-tampering tech contract

Three incumbents will continue onto this expanded iteration of the program focused on defending against unintended technology transfers or alterations by adversaries.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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Lockheed's venture arm backs weather tech company

Meteomatics operates a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles that work to collect weather data on an hourly basis.

  • By Ross Wilkers

NGA brings in more companies for $795M research, development contract

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency uses this program to further iterate its hardware and software capabilities.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Navy wraps up awards for $250M undersea tech contract

Some of the program's core functional areas include payloads, propulsion, electrical power, guidance and control, and non-payload sensors.

  • By Ross Wilkers

HawkEye 360 adds Lockheed's venture arm as investor

The companies are also entering into a new partnership arrangement focused on advancing remote sensing and radio frequency technologies.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Vayu Robotics makes its debut with initial investors

Lockheed Martin's venture arm is one of Vayu's early backers as the artificial intelligence startup looks to further scale its robotic product development efforts.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Special Operations Command starts process to recompete $8B logistics contract

A pair of site visits are on the calendar for companies interested in this largest of SOCOM's service contracts currently held by Lockheed Martin.

  • By Ross Wilkers

WT 360: For Lockheed's ventures team, its investments are merely step one

Chris Moran, executive director and general manager of Lockheed Martin's venture capital arm, takes us behind the scenes of their work with startup technology companies after the investment and how that larger ecosystem really operates.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Lockheed, Northrop share $1.5 billion contract for new transport satellites

This batch of 72 satellites will begin launching in 2026 and function as “the space backbone for the Joint All Domain Command and Control.”

  • By Patrick Tucker