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President Trump said a contribution from the defense contractor will go toward a new South Lawn pad for Marine One helicopters.

July 7 (Reuters) - Defence companies from NATO member states gathered in Ankara on Tuesday for an industry forum held alongside the alliance's annual summit, where several defence cooperation and

By Stephen Culp NEW YORK, July 6 (Reuters) - Wall Street advanced on Monday as a rebound in semiconductors put the Nasdaq on top.

Lockheed Martin acquired the naval defense firm Ultra Maritime from the private equity firm Advent International.

Lockheed said Ultra Maritime’s portfolio of anti-submarine warfare will complement and expand its ability to offer sonar solutions for maritime platforms.

Investing.com -- U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the war in Ukraine, the conflict involving Iran, and next week’s NATO summit during an 85-minute phone call on Saturday, Bloomberg reported, citing the Kremlin.

Lockheed Martin is gearing up to release its Q2 earnings report on July 23, and analysts forecast a slight decline in earnings.

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President Donald Trump met with the CEOs of Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Honeywell at the White House on Wednesday, pressing them to speed up weapons production hours after the White House asked Congress for $87.6 billion in supplemental spending tied largely to the Iran war, according to CNBC. The ...

The defense contractor said the award is one of the first major procurement contracts executed under the Defense Department’s effort to stockpile weapons in the next few years.

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Investing.com-- General Motors (NYSE:GM) is in talks with Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) to manufacture components for the defense contractor’s weapons systems, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The automaker seeks to grow its defense subsidiary as the U.S. aims to replenish munitions supplies.

Rocket Lab was supposed to ride the wave of the biggest space IPO in years, but it ended up getting swamped.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which is likely to get a $1.8 trillion price tag when it debuts on the Nasdaq next week, carries a host of superlatives. Part of the problem is SpaceX itself. The company combines Musk’s space, satellite, social media, and artificial intelligence divisions, and is expected to float 555 million shares next week with a share price of around $135.

SpaceX’s S-1 just handed legacy defense investors a number they cannot ignore. And you can bet they won’t. In 2025, roughly one-fifth of SpaceX revenue came from U.S. federal agencies, primarily NASA, the Department of War, the General Services Administration, and certain Intelligence Community agencies, focused on launch services, spacecraft development, satellite deployment, and artificial ... One-Fifth of SpaceX Revenue Comes From Uncle Sam: The Defense Contractors That Should Worry

SpaceX said it employed "over 22,000" people as of March 31, putting it well down the ranks of publicly traded aerospace and defense companies. It said none of them are unionized and doesn't break out how many are in the U.

Recent presidents have stayed away from trading stocks in companies whose fortunes they could lift or scuttle with the stroke of a pen, but Donald Trump smashed that precedent in the first quarter of this year with more than 3,600 buy and sell orders, many of them involving companies whose profits have been directly impacted by his decisions as head of the government. Among the Trump trades in a recent report filed with a federal ethics agency was as much as $6 million in Nvidia, whose advanced chips Trump approved for sale to China last year. “If he were defense secretary, he would be committing a crime,” said Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics adviser in the George W. Bush administration and a big critic of congressional trading, too.

The U-2 stopped flying over Russia after one was shot down in 1960. But the plane remained an asset for U.S. intelligence.

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IPG Photonics (NASDAQ:IPGP) reported first-quarter 2026 results that exceeded management’s expectations, with revenue rising 17% year over year to $265 million, as improved demand—particularly tied to battery manufacturing and medical applications—supported growth, executives said on the company’s e