Lockheed Martin Opens Expansion Of Newtown, Pa Facility

July 5, 2010 - Lockheed Martin opened the doors to new facilities at its Space Systems Company operations in Newtown, Pa. Ribbon-cutting ceremonies with community leaders and customers were conducted on Friday for the $24 million expansion project which includes an addition to the facility’s manufacturing capabilities as well as a conference center. 

The new 15,000-square-foot multi-purpose Patriot Center will facilitate large-scale meetings such as spacecraft program design reviews, demonstration initiatives and customer events. The new meeting facility accommodates up to 250 people and offers users the ability to subdivide the space into separate meeting rooms as well as enjoy modernized audio visual and information technology equipment.

Lockheed Martin’s Newtown facility serves as the headquarters for Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems, the U.S. Air Force’s GPS III Space Segment program and NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series (GOES-R) program. LMCSS has delivered 36 commercial communications satellites based on the A2100 platform to customers world-wide. The GPS III and GOES-R programs were awarded to Lockheed Martin in May 2008 and July 2009, respectively. The facility also builds components, subsystems and systems for all Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (LMSSC) lines of business, including military satellite communications programs such as the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) system and the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS). 

The Newtown facility is part of LMSSC, a major operating unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation. LMSSC designs and develops, tests, manufactures and operates a full spectrum of advanced-technology systems for national security and military, civil government and commercial customers. Chief products include human space flight systems; remote sensing, navigation, meteorological and communications satellites and instruments; space observatories and interplanetary spacecraft; laser radar; ballistic missiles; missile defense systems; and nanotechnology research and development.