by - June 25, 2026 10:39 am
Lockheed Martin, the Bethesda, Md.-based defense industry company that manufactures the F-35 fighter jet, said Thursday (June 25) it will boost employment in Fort Smith from an initial plan of…
by - January 6, 2026 5:16 pm
The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin on Tuesday (Jan. 6) announced a unique seven-year deal to boost production of advanced Patriot-system missiles from around 600 a year to 2,000 a year….
by - March 27, 2024 4:59 pm
Defense industry giant Lockheed Martin is the first known company with plans to locate a facility in Fort Smith to support the foreign pilot training center being established at Ebbing…
by - October 13, 2023 11:59 am
Lockheed Martin Chairman, President and CEO James “Jim” Taiclet will headline the Arkansas Economic Development Foundation (AEDF) luncheon on Oct. 31 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. Gov….
by - October 5, 2022 7:30 am
Lockheed Martin on Tuesday (Oct. 4) marked the opening of a new All-Up Round III (AUR III) facility at its Camden operations in Arkansas. The 85,000-square-foot expansion supports increased production…
by - May 18, 2022 6:31 pm
If Lockheed Martin and Airbus win a U.S. Air Force award for an aerial refueling system, the two companies plan to locate the manufacturing facility for the project in western…
by - May 4, 2020 12:11 pm
Lockheed Martin has received a $6.07 billion contract from the U.S. Army for the production of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors and associated equipment. The interceptors…
by - January 15, 2020 12:23 pm
Lockheed Martin’s Camden, Ark., plant will benefit from a $31.9 million missile system weapons contract between the company and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The contract is to…
by - October 22, 2019 4:16 pm
Lockheed Martin Corp., which broke ground in September on the first of many expansions at the company’s industrial site in Camden, Ark., on Tuesday (Oct. 22) posted earnings that were…
by - June 26, 2019 10:18 am
Only days after Gov. Asa Hutchinson returned from a European trade mission where Lockheed Martin announced a multimillion-dollar deal to expand its operations in Camden, the Pentagon awarded the defense…
by - June 17, 2019 8:29 am
Lockheed Martin announced a $142 million expansion investment in its Camden, Ark. facilities that will add another 326 new workers to the complex. Currently, Lockheed Martin employs around 700 workers…
by - March 6, 2019 1:07 pm
Lockheed Martin Corp.’s industrial site in Camden is likely to be apportioned a significant amount of work from the Pentagon’s nearly $1 billion contract to provide so-called THAAD missiles to…
by - August 7, 2018 5:14 pm
As Lockheed Martin ramps up next generation production of its $406 billion F-35 fighter jet program, Arkansas is benefitting from offshoot contract work that is filtering into the state from…
by - June 28, 2018 5:12 pm
Lockheed Martin announced that it has received a $364 million contract to produce the U.S. Army’s Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missile at the defense giant’s sprawling industrial site in Camden,…
by - July 18, 2016 1:00 pm
The nation’s largest defense contractor emerged from Farnborough International Airshow in the United Kingdom last week with a long list of new contracts and big deals in the pipeline that…
by - April 26, 2016 4:58 pm
Defense giant Lockheed Martin’s stock hit a 52-week high on Tuesday after the defense giant raised its year sale guidance based on robust revenue from F-35 fighter jet productions and…
by - February 10, 2016 6:13 pm
Lockheed Martin Corp.’s was recently awarded a $198.7 million boost to a previous multimillion dollar contract that will enhance production on an anti-ballistic system that President Obama recently touted as…
by - December 15, 2015 9:38 am
Lockheed Martin’s Camden-based operations, which is awaiting final word on a bid protest for the $30 billion Joint Light Armored Vehicle contract that went to Oshkosh Defense, will take part…
