Lockheed Enhances Simulation Center:

Nov. 23, 2005

Lockheed Martin is ramping up its Suffolk, Va.-based Center for Innovation by adding net-enabled air combat simulation capability to its net-centric laboratory, said company officials. They said the two simulators built to investigate emerging and future capabilities of the F/A-22 and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will provide “unprecedented opportunities” to test new capabilities, technology, and interoperability within the framework of the network battlespace.

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