OREANDA-NEWS. November 25, 2015. Three Korean Universities were recently selected to receive funding as part of Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT), Republic of Korea Science, Technology, and Research (ROKST&R) Fund. The projects include research related to supersonic flight, unmanned vehicle navigation techniques, new analysis techniques for composite materials, and enhanced imagery analysis techniques for reducing errors caused by different illumination characteristics.

“These four projects offer new approaches to technology that are of importance to Lockheed Martin and represent unique ideas that we want to explore in collaboration with Korean academia”, said Dr. John D. Evans, Lockheed Martin vice president for International Science and Technology. “Last year’s ROKST&R projects provided excellent scientific insights and yielded a promising joint patent application. The ROKST&R fund’s second year is also off to a great start”.

The Universities selected for ROKST&R funding this year are Korea University, Seoul National University, and Ulsan National Institute for Science and Technology.