Defense Department and Lockheed Martin [LMT] officials confirmed specific measures around cash flows and accounting for inflation are key to a new framework agreement that aims to more than triple production of the Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC)-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE). Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet told reporters during a Tuesday roundtable that two key cooperative elements of the framework that allow it to work for the company are the inclusion of an escalation index to cover inflation for ongoing…
By