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The U.S. and Indian governments look to close a deal that will potentially bring the production of fighter aircraft from Lockheed Martin and Boeing to India, the Washington Post reported Monday. Annie Gowen writes Lockheed has proposed to move its Texas-based F-16 assembly line to India, which will make the country the sole producer of the single-engine aircraft that […] More

BAE Systems has transported a new dry dock to the company’s San Diego shipyard as part of its $100 million investment to support the U.S. Navy’s fleet repair efforts on the West Coast. The Posh Terasea Eagle ship towed the 55,000-lifting-ton floating dry dock to the shipyard, where it will undergo testing, installation, final assembly and certification, BAE said Thursday. Joe […] More

Smiths Detection has opened a Hemel Hempstead, England-based facility for engineering, research and production of chemical and explosive detection technologies. The company said Thursday it will develop security products for the aviation, military and emergency response sectors at the new 67,000-square-foot center of excellence for trace detection. The facility is located nearly 11 miles from Smiths Detection’s previous manufacturing hub […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has opened a system testing facility for the Combat Rescue Helicopter program that aims to replace the U.S. Air Force‘s HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters. The Systems Integration Lab is located within Sikorsky’s Stratford, Connecticut-based manufacturing facility and has four laboratories that will be used to test avionics, electrical power, electronic flight controls and integrated vehicle diagnostics, […] More

Sandia National Laboratories and the government of Singapore have inked a four-year cooperative research and development agreement to set up the nation’s first grid energy storage test-bed. Singapore’s Energy Market Authority has tapped Sandia Labs, operated by Lockheed Martin’s subsidiary Sandia Corp., to assess up to three energy storage test-beds at existing electrical substations with […] More

Atlanta-based privacy management software provider OneTrust and the International Association of Privacy Professionals have partnered to launch the U.S. Federal Agency privacy threshold analysis and privacy impact assessment templates for members via the IAPP-OneTrust comprehensive PIA platform. OneTrust said Wednesday the launch aims to build on existing privacy management systems that the team offers and adds to previous services […] More