PAC-3 MSE Archive photo from Lockheed Martin.

PAC-3 MSE Archive photo from Lockheed Martin.

Lockheed Martin Conducts Successful PAC-3 MSE Missile Flight Test at White Sands Missile Range

Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin’s [NYSE: LMT] PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) Missile successfully engaged, intercepted and destroyed two different threat representative targets during a flight test today at White Sands Missile Range, N.M.

Pentagon Seeks More for Missile Defense, Less for Space, in Reprogramming Request

Space News

June 5, 2013 – WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Defense is seeking congressional approval to add about $137 million to missile defense accounts while trimming about $59 million from space programs in a large-scale shuffling of the 2013 budget. [...]

Pentagon Defends Weapons After Report of Hacker Attacks

Bloomberg News

The Pentagon vouched for the capabilities of U.S. weaponry, responding to a report that Chinese hackers had gained access to sensitive information about major American weapons systems. “We maintain full confidence in our weapons platforms,” Pentagon spokesman George Little said [...]

Confidential report lists U.S. weapons system designs compromised by Chinese cyberspies

The Washington Post

Designs for many of the nation’s most sensitive advanced weapons systems have been compromised by Chinese hackers, according to a report prepared for the Pentagon and to officials from government and the defense industry. Among more than two dozen major [...]

Oman to buy $2.1B Lockheed Martin missile system

UPI

MUSCAT, Oman, May 21 (UPI) — The Persian Gulf sultanate of Oman is set to buy a $2.1 billion missile system built by the Lockheed Martin as part of a U.S. drive to install a coordinated air-defense system linking the region’s Arab monarchies to counter Iran.