Companies

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.

Companies

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.

Companies

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.

Companies

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.

Companies

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.

Companies

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.

Companies

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.

Opinion

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.

Opinion

Sikorsky, Rain demo autonomous firefighting helicopter

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

Contracts

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.

Companies

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.

Contracts

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.

Contracts

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.

Companies

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.

Companies

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.

Contracts

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.

Podcasts

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.

Contracts

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.”

Companies

Lockheed promotes new human resources leader

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

Companies

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.