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Lockheed Martin is a world leader in systems integration and the development of air and missile defense systems and technologies. These include the world's first successful hit-to-kill intercept with the Homing Overlay Experiment in 1984, the successful demonstration of the first complete weapon system using hit-to-kill technology with the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), as well as the world's first operational hit-to-kill missile defense system, PAC-3. It ... has considerable experience in interceptor systems; kill vehicles; battle management command, control and communications; precision pointing and tracking optics; as well as radar and other sensors that enable signal processing and data fusion. The company makes significant contributions to all 10 major U.S. Missile Defense Systems and participates in several global missile defense partnerships.
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Lockheed Martin is the leading provider of information technology and systems engineering support to the U.S. Department of Defense. The success is built on helping the government improve its enterprise architecture, e-government, homeland security, information assurance, systems integration, and outsourcing initiatives. Tags: Information Technology, Lockheed Martin Corp., Success, E-government, Outsourcing, Government, Homeland Security, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management White papers 2004-06-29
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The Lockheed Martin-built C-130J Hercules transport aircraft has performed its first operational mission. A C-130J flown by a three-man company crew delivered 83,000 pounds of relief supplies to victims of Hurricane Mitch in Central America. The supplies were loaded and unloaded using an enhanced cargo handling system that is now standard equipment on the C-130Js being purchased by the U.S. military. The aircraft used on the mission will eventually be delivered to the U.S. Air Force Reserve as a WC-130J weather reconnaissance aircraft.
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Lockheed Martin developed the AFIS digital fingerprint database for the FBI, and ... possesses unique capability to provide digital fingerprint identification services for other government entities or private employers. ALS provides Internet and call center payment processing and financial management services as a subcontractor to Fingerprint Services, LLC, which is a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor for provision of digital fingerprint identification services for the Florida Departments of Education ("FLDOE") and Financial Services ("FLDFS"). Fingerprints are collected from applicants for employment in Florida public school districts or insurance licenses through 82 fingerprint centers located in school district offices throughout Florida. Digital fingerprint images are transmitted electronically to the Lockheed Martin database and to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement ("FDLE"), and compared against the databases of the FDLE and the FBI. Via the use of digital technology for automated comparison, results are returned in a fraction of the time previously required, greatly facilitating the hiring or licensing processes.
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The AMC-18 telecommunications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) for SES GLOBAL (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg stock exchanges SESG), was successfully launched today from Kourou, French Guiana. Lift-off occurred at 5:08 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) aboard an Ariane 5 launch vehicle provided by Arianespace of Evry, France. Initial contact with the satellite, called acquisition of signal, was confirmed at 6:12 p.m. EST from Lockheed Martin's satellite tracking station in Uralla, Australia.
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Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $10 million, six-month contract by the NOAA for the Program Definition and Risk Reduction (PDRR) phase of the nation's next-generation environmental satellite system, GOES-R. The contract has two options priced at an additional $10 million each. Over 30 years NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) program has been observing and predicting the intensity and track of severe storms in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, providing data for
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