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Space

Lockheed Martin Preparing Space-Based Testbed For Joint All Domain Operations

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, April 4th, 2022

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Lockheed Martin Preparing Space-Based Testbed For Joint All Domain Operations

A Lockheed Martin employee is seen working on a Transport Layer model with the help of digital transformation tools. Photo: Lockheed Martin

LITTLETON, Colo.—Lockheed Martin [LMT] later this year plans to launch the first two of three satellites that will form the company’s testbed in space to test and demonstrate advanced communications and data transport to enable joint military missions across all operational domains, a company official said on Monday. The 5G.MIL testbed, which is being funded with the company’s internal research and development funds, is “kind of trying to think ahead of our customers, try out those concepts, prove that they…

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