The agreement was signed in Madrid by Aurelio Martínez, president of Navantia, and Orlando Carvalho, president of Lockheed Martin’s Mission Systems and Sensors business, which is based in Washington, DC.

We have successfully collaborated with Lockheed Martin on surface ships for Spain, Norway and Australia, and we are now starting to collaborate on submarines, which could open interesting new markets,” said Martínez. “Lockheed Martin has long experience in the design, development and production of naval combat systems and has been collaborating with Navantia since the mid-1990’s to provide these systems for many of the ships that Navantia builds