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Space Force Zeroing-in On Satellites, Launch Vehicles, Radar, Electro-optical Sensors, Communications, And Cyber Security (From Military & Aerospace Electronics)
A 2018 quote by Lexington COO Loren Thompson in the Washington Post was included in a piece by Military & Aerospace Electronics discussing the purposes and functions of the Space Force. A large section of the article was devoted to potential change ...
The Global War On Terror Shifted Air Force Vector, Boosted Wright-Patterson (From Dayton Daily News)
Lexington COO Loren Thompson was featured in an article for the Dayton Daily News looking ahead to the 20th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks and the impact the subsequent War on Terror had on the amount of work at the Wright-Patterso ...
Republicans Inflate Cost Of Taliban-Seized U.S. Military Equipment (From FactCheck.org)
Lexington COO Loren Thompson was quoted in a FactCheck.org analysis of Congressional Republican claims that the Taliban had seized U.S. military equipment worth $85 billion after the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Not only was the value of the equipment ...
What Happened To US Military Equipment Left Behind In Afghanistan? (From USA Today)
Lexington COO Loren Thompson was quoted in a USA Today piece analyzing what would become of the equipment left behind in Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal. Ultimately, said Thompson, “the systems and material will have little more than symbolic val ...
Fact Check: Photos Show Service Members Killed In 2017 Plane Crash, Not Kabul Attack (From USA Today)
Lexington COO Loren Thompson was mentioned in a USA Today piece on the circulation of an image falsely depicting the U.S. service members killed in the August 26 ISIS-K attack on the Kabul airport. In reality, the image, largely spread on Facebook, dep ...
Boeing’s St. Louis F-15 Program Continues To Soar, Could Add 500 Jobs In Coming Years (From The St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Lexington COO Loren Thompson was quoted in a piece by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch discussing the production of the F-15 fighter in St. Louis, along with production of Boeing’s Super Hornet. The F-15 program alone added 500 jobs to Missouri, and Boeing ...
A New Hypersonic Missile Is Being Developed By Tucson-Based Raytheon Unit (From Tuscon.com)
Lexington COO Loren Thompson was quoted in Tuscon.com, a Tuscon, Arizona-based news outlet, in a piece discussing Raytheon’s new contract with the Pentagon to develop a hypersonic missile. The Raytheon unit developing the missile is based out of Tuscon ...
Carl Levin, Six-Term Michigan Senator Who Garnered Bipartisan Respect, Dies At 87 (From The Washington Post)
Lexington COO Loren Thompson was quoted by the Washington Post in their obituary for Carl Levin, the six-term Democratic senator from Michigan. He died July 29 in Detroit of lung cancer. In the Post’s words, Levin was “an influential leader on national ...
Riding The Wave: Defense Revenues Rise Despite A Dark 2020 (From Defense News)
Lexington’s Dan Goure was quoted in a Defense News piece describing the growth of U.S. defense spending in FY2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Revenues in the defense industry recorded in this year’s Defense News Top 100 list totaled $551 billion, an ...
Obscure Language In Postal Reform Bills Causes Stir (From FreightWaves)
Lexington’s Paul Steidler was quoted in an article on FreightWaves discussing the controversy surrounding Section 202 of the Postal Service Reform Act of 2021. Critics of the language say it would allow the U.S. Postal Service to use mail revenues to s ...