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U.S. Navy awards Lockheed Martin $84M for laser-guided training rounds

Jan. 9, 2014

Bethesda, MD--The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin an $84.5 million dollar contract to produce paveway II Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds (ELGTR).

Gail Overton

Bethesda, MD--The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) an $84.5 million dollar contract to produce paveway II Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds (ELGTR). Under the four-year indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract, Lockheed Martin will deliver ELGTRs, shipping containers, logistics and product support to the U.S. Navy. Joe Serra, precision guided systems manager at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, said, "We are nearing completion of multi-carriage ELGTR development, which will further increase training efficiency, proficiency and flexibility."

ELGTR emulates cockpit indications, release and terminal characteristics of the paveway II laser guided weapon systems to provide affordable, high-performance aircrew defense training without depleting paveway II laser guided bomb (LGB) tactical inventory. Recognized worldwide as the only live-fire training solution for warfighters, the ELGTR is compatible with F/A-18, AV-8B, F-16 and various international aircraft.

This contract extends delivery of ELGTRs to the U.S. Navy through 2018. Lockheed Martin has produced advanced training solutions for the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and international customers since Laser Guided Training Round production began in 1992, and has delivered more than 130,000 training rounds to date.

In addition to paveway II ELGTR, Lockheed Martin’s 350,000-square-foot production facility in Archbald, PA designs and manufactures combat-proven paveway II Plus LGB kits. Lockheed Martin has delivered more than 70,000 LGB kits and 7,000 Dual Mode LGB kits to the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and international customers.

Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs about 116,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products, and services. The Corporation’s net sales for 2012 were $47.2 billion.

SOURCE: Lockheed Martin; http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2014/january/mfc-010814-lm-us-navy-awards-lm-84-million-contract.html

About the Author

Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)

Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.