The tech was in part funded by the US Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Lockheed Australia’s Tony Lindsay said.
By Colin Clark“I read about so many people in my position, who say, I’m going to triple revenue by whatever. I don’t get into that game. Perhaps that’s because of my defense upbringing. I know how to turn capital into capability. I look at value in a company. Revenue to me is one marker. Value is the most important marker for me,” Warren “Macca” McDonald, CEO of Lockheed Martin Australia, told Breaking Defense.
By Colin Clark“This critical capability will allow the ADF to leverage information from across all domains at greater speeds, with better accuracy and at a greater scale than it is capable of today,” Stephanie Hill, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, said in a statement.
By Colin ClarkLockheed Australia’s CEO, Warren McDonald sees Air 6500 as part of what he called a “massive recapitalization” of Australia’s military.
By Colin ClarkLockheed Martin Australia announced a $74 million AUD facility that will be modeled to some degree on its Lighthouse facility in Virginia, where it runs modeling and simulations, as well as wargames.
By Colin ClarkThe F-35 “demonstrated its ability to pass data over various networks from aircraft that took off from Fort Worth, Texas, to other aircraft and bounced information through Hawaii to Australia to provide data to the exercise in Australia,” Lockheed’s Gary North noted.
By Colin Clark