Case No. CT-2014-313525-2
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Lockheed Martin Corporation
2121 Crystal Drive
Arlington, VA 22202
Dear Mr. [ ]:
This is in response to your correspondence dated November 17, 2015 and supplemented on January 8, 2016 (the “Application”), on behalf of the Lockheed Martin Corporation to renew License CU-2014-313525-1 (the “License”), which expired on November 30, 2015. The License authorized Lockheed Martin Corporation and Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control to engage in all transactions necessary and incidental to arranging for the return to the United States of an inert Hellfire Captive Air Training Missile and associated hardware that were temporarily exported to Spain for testing and evaluation on SH-60B “Seahawk” helicopters sold to the Government of Spain under the United States Foreign Military Sales program and then mistakenly shipped to Cuba. Lockheed Martin Corporation and Lockheed Martin...
1) For background on the facts concerning this case, see e.g. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cuba-missile-idUSKCN0VM0VN ("U.S. recovers Hellfire air-to-ground missile from Cuba"). As described in the article, which was published on February 13, 2016, i.e. just two weeks after the issuance of this guidance letter, "[t]he laser-guided AGM 114 Hellfire mistakenly arrived in Cuba in June 2014 and was retrieved on Saturday by U.S. officials and representatives of Lockheed Martin Corp, the missile’s owner, the Cuban foreign ministry said in a statement." Also, "A team of U.S. government and Lockheed Martin experts took the missile back to the United States..."
Evident from the guidance letter is that Lockheed initially had a specific license to "to engage in all transactions necessary and incidental to arranging for the return to the United States [from Cuba] of an inert Hellfire Captive Air Training Missile...," and that, in the...