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Lockheed Martin Pursues LCS Sales Abroad

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, October 26th, 2012

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] has been in discussions with various countries around the world to market its version of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) already in production for the U.S. Navy, a company executive recently said. Several nations have shown “active interest” in the Multi-Mission Combatant (MMC), the name Lockheed Martin has assigned the vessel for the international market, Tom Cosgrove, the company’s director of business development for the MMC, told reporters Oct. 19. Lockheed Martin builds the Freedom variant of…

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