SUNNYVALE, Calif., — Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] delivered the U.S. Navy’s first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on December 15, where it will be prepared for a Feb. 16, 2012 liftoff aboard an Atlas V launch vehicle. The MUOS constellation is a next-generation narrowband tactical satellite communications [...]

DENVER, — The Lockheed Martin [NYSE : LMT] team developing the U.S. Air Force’s next generation Global Positioning System has delivered the program’s pathfinder spacecraft to the company’s Denver-area facility. The pathfinder, known as the GPS III Non-Flight Satellite Testbed (GNST), will now undergo final assembly, integration and test activities in a new facility designed [...]

MOORESTOWN, N.J., December 14th, 2011 — Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] submitted its final proposal to the U.S. Navy today to provide combat system engineering services – including design, development, integration, test and life cycle support – for Aegis-equipped ships. During the four decades that Lockheed Martin has partnered with the Navy as the Aegis Combat [...]

On International Women’s Day today, Muslim Aid issued a statement urging Governments and NGOs not to overlook social, political and economic equality for women in developing countries as key stakeholders in sustainable development. A Spokesperson for Muslim Aid said: “The contribution of women is central to resolving conflicts, poverty eradication and economic empowerment. Governments and [...]

Prime Minister David Cameron has hosted a two day Nordic Baltic Summit which saw politicians, policy innovators, entrepreneurs and business leaders discuss how best to boost economic growth, enterprise and job creation whilst improving people’s well being. The Premiers of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined the Prime Minister for the [...]

Tuesday, 18th May 2010 Meddling council bureaucrats have been accused of attempting to spy on residents after providing households with diaries in which they are supposed to keep track of the way their neighbours put out their rubbish. UKIP councillor and local government spokesman Pete Reeve slammed Hull council for producing the ‘environmental crime incident [...]

Tuesday, 18th May 2010 Every family in the country should welcome health inspectors round to check that their home is safe for their children to live in, according to guidance released yesterday by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). Professor Mike Kelly, director of NICE’s Centre for Public Health Excellence, says the [...]

Tuesday, 18th May 2010 Mass immigration is fuelling poverty and leading to declining education standards according to two separate reports. Former Labour Minister Frank Field said in a Radio 4 interview yesterday that Britons would continue to be put out of work if immigration remained at the levels it was under Labour. “If this Government [...]

Tuesday 18 May 2010 Eleanor Boddington and Professor Geoffrey Crossick have been appointed as Trustees of the National Maritime Museum for a period of four years from 8 April 2010. Biographical notes Eleanor Boddington has been Senior Solicitor at the Wellcome Trust, the UK’s largest charity, where she advises on all aspects of general commercial [...]

Tuesday 18 May 2010 Gareth Thomas was appointed as a Tate Trustee for a term of four years from 1 April 2010. Biographical Details Gareth Thomas trained in law, and then began a 30-year commercial career with the John Lewis Partnership. Its longest-serving board member, he has helped it to win in recent years every [...]