{"id":53966,"date":"2026-07-06T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T14:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/53966\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T14:37:09","slug":"lockheed-martin-expands-naval-defense-portfolio-with-ultra-maritime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/53966\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin expands naval defense portfolio with Ultra Maritime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lockheed Martin<\/a> will buy naval defense company Ultra Maritime from private equity firm Advent for $3.45 billion, bolstering its portfolio as global demand for military technology surges.<\/p>\n

After the closing of the deal, announced on Monday, Ultra Maritime will become a part of Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems, which reported revenue of $17.3 billion in 2025 and employs 35,000 people worldwide.<\/p>\n

Sustained conflicts in Ukraine<\/a> and the Middle East, and US President Donald Trump’s<\/a> $1.5 trillion defense budget request for 2027 are driving up demand for weapons and military technology, pushing defense contractors to expand their capabilities.<\/p>\n

Ultra Maritime, specializing in anti-submarine \u200cwarfare \u2060and undersea defense technologies, is a part of Cobham Ultra – created after Advent acquired British aerospace company Cobham in 2020 and then combined \u200bit with \u200bUltra Electronics \u2060following its 2022 takeover.<\/p>\n

Lockheed said Ultra Maritime’s international presence and a portfolio of exportable anti-submarine<\/a> warfare technologies, including naval sonar sensing systems, will complement and expand its existing sonar solutions.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Ultra Maritime received a development contract from the US Navy for its underwater acoustic decoy, designed to protect ships or submarines from torpedoes.<\/p>\n

In 2025, Ultra Maritime announced a partnership with Anduril Industries to advance autonomous ocean sensing, and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems to develop unmanned airborne anti-submarine warfare capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin will buy naval defense company Ultra Maritime from private equity firm Advent for $3.45 billion, bolstering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2867,7933,35934,9303,8,35933,2260,33,8107,13062],"class_list":["post-53966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-company","tag-defense-industry","tag-defense-tech","tag-drone","tag-japan","tag-lockheed","tag-navy","tag-nihon","tag-submarine","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}