(Editor's note: This story and headline have been updated with additional information to clarify the focus on increased progress payment rates, not all progress payments.) SIMI VALLEY, CA -- Lockheed Martin President and CEO James Taiclet said today that large prime contractors, like his company, should commit to flowing 100% of all progress payment increases down to smaller subcontractors to strengthen the U.S. defense industrial base. Taiclet, speaking on a panel here at the Reagan National Defense Forum, said...