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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

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
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Lockheed promotes new human resources leader

The 35-year company veteran will now oversee HR and workforce development functions for all 116,000 employees.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Lockheed acquires stake in one of its component suppliers

The defense giant deepened its relationship with a company that uses 3D printing to make certain products for flight applications.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Computing and AI feature in this week's major venture investments

AEI HorizonX's newest investment targets a computer programming language specialist, while Lockheed Martin's venture capital arm continues its backing of a company focused on trusted artificial intelligence.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Propulsion tech maker fetches $13M from Lockheed's venture arm, other investors

Agile Space Industries is looking to scale up its production operations and test infrastructure.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Lockheed fears L3Harris will block access to Aerojet’s rockets

Lockheed Martin has begun making investments in other rocket makers amid its concern over what L3Harris Technologies' agreement to buy Aerojet Rocketdyne means.

  • By Marcus Weisgerber

Lockheed, GlobalFoundries form secure chip manufacturing team

GlobalFoundries is among the handful of the world's largest semiconductor makers and for this partnership, is working with the globe's largest defense company on a more resilient chip ecosystem.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Red 6 fetches $70M in Series B investment round

The five-year-old company is looking to disrupt the military pilot training domain with its augmented reality system.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Fortify fetches $12.5M in capital for advanced manufacturing

The venture investment arms of two large defense companies participated in this round as they look for new ways to make products.

  • By Ross Wilkers