Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin - American Company. Specialization: aircraft, aerospace, shipbuilding, automation of postal services and logistics of airports.

2024: Lockheed Martin wins $17 billion U.S. missile defense contract

In April 2024, Lockheed Martin won a $17 billion US missile defense contract, sources said.

2023

Agreement on production in Poland MLRS HIMARS

In September 2023, the Ministry of Defense Poland signed a framework agreement with Lockheed Martin to create a joint production of HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems. The document provides for the transfer of technologies and orders, as well as assistance from the United States in solving problems of a logistical nature and training.

The agreement was concluded as part of the Homar-A program to update weapons for the Polish army. Its participants from the Polish side will be local companies Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ), Huta Stalowa Wola, WZU and MESKO.

MLRS is planned to be mounted on Polish Jelcz trucks, the Poles demonstrated such a modification the other day at the MSPO-2023 arms exhibition in Kielce. The terms of the agreement provide for the assembly of 486 HIMARS in Poland with the start of deliveries in 2026.

These are just the copies whose sale the US Congress approved in February 2023. According to the defense department, together with the launchers ordered in 2019, the Polish army will have over 500 HIMARS in 28 squadrons.

The parties discussed the localization of production back in June, and at the end of August, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak signed offset agreements with Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.

Earlier, the HIMARS Academy was opened in Poland to train European soldiers, which should give impetus to cooperation with Baltic partners - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, who also ordered these systems from the United States.

Agreements with the Ministry of Defense of Poland for the production and repair of medium-range missile defense Wisla for $250 million

Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak signed offset agreements with the American companies Raytheon and Lockheed Martin providing for the production and repair of elements for the national medium-range missile defense system Wisla.

The total value of the contract is about $250 million. In accordance with it, a production and repair base will be created in Poland for the facilities of the Wisla system, including LTAMDS Ghost Eye radars and PAC-3 MSE missiles.

The signed agreements also relate to the acquisition of additional capabilities for servicing F-16 and C-130 aircraft. In addition, Poland will receive competencies and licenses for the production of fuel for HIMARS MLRS missiles, as well as competencies related to PAC-3 MSE missiles for the Wisla system. To service these systems, a new repair and production base will be created in the country.

Offset agreements are a long-term supply contract. Offset means compensation provided by the supplier to the customer in the form of subcontracts of counter-trade or investment obligations.

In other words: Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are expected to invest some of the funds received from the contract in the Polish economy. This is likely to be realized through the construction of production plants.

Creation of a company that will create a connection between the Earth and the Moon

On March 28, 2023, the American military-industrial corporation Lockheed Martin announced the creation of a subsidiary of Crescent Space Services, which will develop the lunar infrastructure. The first project of the enterprise will be the deployment of a satellite communication system between the Earth and the moon. Read more here.

China's sanctions against the company for supplying arms to Taiwan

In February 2023, China imposed sanctions on Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technologies over their involvement in arms sales to Taiwan, the country's Commerce Ministry said.

The Chinese government will ban trade with Lockheed and Raytheon Missiles & Defense, as well as ban new investment by the two firms in China. It will also impose fines worth twice the value of those companies' arms sales contracts to Taiwan, the statement added.

In addition, the ministry will annul and prohibit the issuance of work and residence permits to top managers of companies and prohibit them from entering the country.

2022

Pentagon contract for $431 million for the production of HIMARS MLRS for the United States and its allies after deliveries to Ukraine

Lockheed Martin in November 2022 received a contract from the Pentagon in the amount of $431 million for the production of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) M142 HIMARS in order to quickly replenish the US and its allies who sent this military equipment to Ukraine.

It is not reported exactly how many systems Lockheed Martin will produce.

Lockheed in October also won a $14.4 million contract to increase production capacity for the rapid production of HIMARS in the United States.

Previously, the company was set to produce 60 launchers per year, but this deal will allow it to increase production to 96 MLRS per year.

In fact, there was an initiative that the Pentagon worked on with the support of Congress back in September: the parties discussed increasing the production of 155-mm howitzer shells and 100 HIMARS per year until 2028.

Russian hackers posted data of Lockheed Martin employees on the Internet

In August 2022, the hacker group Killnet published evidence of hacking into Lockheed Martin's internal employee authorization system. Until recently, the company claimed that all employee information was safe.

A message on the Killnet channel on Telegram attached a video of a table with data from hundreds of employees of the military-industrial giant. To the music, names, division address, email, employee phone number and his photo scroll on the screen. Some of the employees' images are superimposed directly on a video sequence of personal data.

Russian hackers uploaded Lockheed Martin employee data to the Internet

Who has nothing to do, you can send photos and videos of the consequences of their manufactured weapons to the terrorists from Lockheed Martin! Let them realize what they are creating and what they are contributing to, "the cyber group said in a statement.

The former leader of the Russian hacker group Killnet, known under the pseudonym KillMilk, announced a cyber war against the manufacturer HIMARS on August 1, 2022.

The Lockheed Martin Defense Corporation will be subject to my cyber attacks. Lockheed Martin's industrial control system will be paralyzed! - said the hacker.

He also announced plans to publish personal data of company employees and called on other hacker groups to attack Lockheed Martin systems around the world.

According to Killnet, hackers have disabled an authorization system using an intelligent card NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration USA), as well as an authorization token (RSA cryptographic algorithm) and an agency user indicator.

Killnet added that two more associations of Russian hackers, Anonymous Russia"" and CarbonSec, joined the blocking of Lockheed Martin identification systems.^[1]

Russian hackers hacked the company's website

On August 9, 2022, the hacker group Killnet announced the hacking of the website of the American military-industrial corporation Lockheed Martin, which, in particular, produces HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems and Javelin anti-tank missile systems. The information was published on the group's Telegram channel.

{{quote 'The world's best Akamai defense system fell off Lockheed Martin. Perhaps they realized that there was no need to help terrorists, the RIA Novosti group quoted the statement as saying. }}

According to this data, the internal system of authorization of employees of the enterprise turned out to be hacked, the data of all candidates for work in the corporation were downloaded.

At the end of July 2022, the Killnet group, which claims to be associated with Russia, announced that its head KillMilk was leaving the organization "according to his own convictions," but before that he would conduct his last attack on Lockheed Martin, "for which he had been preparing for a very long time."

There is nothing surprising in hacking the website of the American defense corporation Lockheed Martin, "this is not a hyperbite," said News.ru chief developer of the site Kremlin.ru Artyom Geller. He stressed that the company is likely to suffer reputational losses, since their official resource was vulnerable.

{{quote 'It should be borne in mind that this is the site of the state corporation, it does not store an important one on its servers information. The maximum that is there is a database data of mailings, drafts of events, news, press releases, but not internal document management, contracts, and so on. Security is such a thing... There are always vulnerabilities that can be exploited. For Lockheed Martin, this is primarily a big reputational loss: if they allowed the site to be hacked, then perhaps they treat their products the same way, "said Geller. }}

According to him, it will take from several minutes to months to restore the site, depending on the level of access received by hackers.^[2]

Refusal to buy rocket engine manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4.4 billion

On February 14, 2022, it became known that Lockheed Martin refused its offer to buy rocket engine manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne $4.4 billion after the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit to block the deal, arguing that it would lead to lower competition and higher prices in the defense sector. Read more here.

2021: Creation of the doghouse team to develop the first independent space station in the United States

At the end of October 2021 Nanoracks , in collaboration with Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin, they formed a team to develop the first ever free-flying commercial space station. The space station, named Starlab , will be a permanent crewed platform designed to conduct critical research, stimulate industrial activity, and provide continued presence and leadership in USA low Earth orbit. The station is expected to reach initial operational capacity by 2027. More. here

2020: Purchase of jet engine manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne

On December 20, 2020, the American military-industrial corporation Lockheed Martin announced the purchase of jet engine manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne. The deal is estimated at $4.4 billion. Read more here.

2015: Purchase of Sikorsky Aircraft

In November 2015, Sikorsky Aircraft was sold to Lockheed Martin.

2004: Cyberattack by Chinese hackers

Main article: Industrial espionage by China

In 2004, in the network of one of the enterprises of the defense concern Lockheed Martin, Chinese hackers broke through the computer protection system, left many traces of their stay in the form of Trojans and backdoors. It is still not clear whether the hackers managed to copy important data, but some of the company's data was badly spoiled.

Hackers and the computer network of the US Department of Defense did not ignore, whose sysadmins did not even notice that attackers have had free access to valuable information for 2 years. The US government accused Russian programmers of a hacker attack, but the Official Kremlin denied this accusation.

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