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Military contractor "cyber-defense" gold rush begins

Sensing a shift in upcoming defense priorities, Lockheed and Boeing are both launching information security product divisions. Bloomberg is reporting that both Lockheed Martin and Boeing are building security product groups to address the military's needs in defending cyberspace. I doubt that the military requires technology...

Tags: Information Security, Lockheed Martin Corp., Boeing Co., Security, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2009-01-02

Leaked Pentagon doc slams Lockheed

Leaked Pentagon doc slams Lockheedwill it make any difference?Is this going to make any difference as faras Lockheed's ability to get contracts?How many of the Hurricane Katrina relief effortvendors are still doing business with FEMA andother agencies?EVMS sucks...I want you to think long and hard about EVMS for a minute...first...

Tags: Lockheed Martin Corp., EVMS, Pentagon

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

Leaked Pentagon doc slams Lockheed

A leaked Pentagon report said Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest defense contractor, failed to "provide the requisite definition and discipline to properly plan and control complex, multi-billion dollar weapon systems acquisition programs." This allegation casts doubt on Lockheed's ability to manage large programs, including major IT...

Tags: Lockheed Martin Corp., Pentagon, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Performance Management, Productivity, Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Investment, Finance, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Microsoft Webcast Series for Lockheed Martin: What Aren't You Getting Out of SQL Server?

People may be familiar with SQL Server as a data platform, but may be missing out on some powerful capabilities SQL Server has "Under the hood" - Extract, Transform, Load ETL engine; the leading OLAP engine; SQL Server Analysis Services provides a dimensional analysis capability that goes far beyond "Pivot...

Tags: Webcast, Microsoft SQL Server, Lockheed Martin Corp., Server, Microsoft Corp., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2008-03-20

ITT wins bid to build next-gen air-traffic control system

The Federal Aviation Administration may finally be on its way to a modern air-traffic control system with the award to ITT of a $1.8 billion contract, The Washington Post reported Friday. The proposal, which the FAA picked over competing bids from Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, is...

Tags: FAA, Lockheed Martin Corp., News, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-04

Photos: Unmanned vehicles take to air, land and sea

Unmanned vehicles allow military, researchers to explore dangerous areas without putting people in harm's way.Sleek robotic aircraft may have been the scene-stealers at this year''s Association for Unmanned Vehicles International AUVSI show, but land vehicles are also playing an important role in military operations. This ruggedized PackBot, made by iRobot,...

Tags: photograph, Unmanned Vehicle, helicopter, catapult, aircraft, iRobot Corp., BAE Systems Plc., Northrop Grumman Corp., researcher, MLB, zoom, Lockheed Martin Corp., U.S. Army, complement, camera, Mountain View, Iraq, robot, display, monitoring, government, image, Sony Corp., pho

Image galleries 2007-08-09

Photos: 'Quadski' maker eyes sporty military watercraft

Gibbs Technologies teams up with Lockheed Martin to develop high-speed amphibious vehicles for small teams of GIs.

Tags: Lockheed Martin Corp., photograph, team

Image galleries 2007-04-03

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics - Global F-35 Aircraft Coalition Builds Unique Collaboration Network

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics wanted three primary industrial partners, plus up to 1,000 suppliers in 30 countries. As many as 5,000 aircraft with at least three design variants with goals include unprecedented design/build cycle reductions, lowest cost of sustainment for 30-year life of fleet. The Lockheed Martin-led F-35 team turned to...

Tags: Collaboration, Network, Lockheed Martin Corp., Product Marketing, Aerospace & Defense, Marketing, Manufacturing

Case studies 2006-10-01

Lockheed gets contract for new space ship

The space shuttle is history. And NASA took a huge step forward towards the future by awarding a multibillion-dollar contract to Lockheed Martin to build the replacement craft, which would put a man on the moon again and be a precursor to a ship that would go to Mars,...

Tags: NASA, ORION

Blog posts 2006-09-01

Lockheed picked to build shuttle replacement

Lockheed picked to build shuttle replacementSounds like a step back to the 1970's to me...A capsule that flies into space on top of a staged rocket; then lands by parachute. Disappointing.Sure it's safer than the Shuttle; but I have an idea. Why don't they just make a new...

Tags: shuttle, NASA, Lockheed Martin Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-09-01

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Modeling Via Reuse of Service Components

In defining Service Oriented Architecture SOA government leaders and technical practitioners need to think of SOA as part of an enterprise strategy for enabling reuse of Service Components. Government and industry organizations can leverage the Component Organization and Registration Environment CORE repository to publish Service Components, and establish communities of...

Tags: Lockheed Martin Corp., Vision, Government, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Vertical Industries, Strategy, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

White papers 2006-08-15

Canadian census counts on online responses

Canadian census counts on online responsesyeah right!I've refused do the census on 3 different occasions and I've never been fined or sent to jail. Sure they threaten you but nothing ever happens.Like they are going to waste there time on that sort of thing. All they do is get angry...

Tags: Free trade, SECURITY, Census, Canadian Softwood, Lockheed Martin Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-05-02

FBI"s Sentinel project goes to Lockheed

The FBI is on track for a fully computerized casefile program, dubbed Sentinel, with a $305 million grant to Lockheed Martin, FBI CIO Zalmai Azmi said. The full program, which will cost $425 million, will give agents secure Internet access to many systems within a year and the entire system...

Tags: Sentinel, Zalmai Azmi, FBI

Blog posts 2006-03-20

For the National Archive, a new e-records system built by Lockheed Martin

The National Archives has awarded a $308 million contract to Lockheed Martin to build an electronic records system. Computerworld quotes Ken Thibodeau, director of the Electronic Records Archives. The system will do three basic things. It will start modernizing the National Archives...

Tags: electronic record, National Archives, Lockheed Martin Corp.

Blog posts 2005-09-12

UML for Ontology Development

Ontologies are becoming increasingly important because they provide the critical semantic foundation for many rapidly expanding technologies such as software agents, e-commerce and knowledge management (McGuinness, 2001). The Unified Modeling Language UML has been widely adopted by the software engineering community and its scope is broadening to include more diverse...

Tags: Software Engineering, Lockheed Martin Corp., Ontology, UML, Research & Development, Programming Languages, Strategy, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Business Operations, Management

White papers 2004-04-07

Lockheed Martin Empowers Employees With "my ePortal" Intranet

Lockheed Martin is a global enterprise principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems, products, and services for government and commercial customers. With tens of thousands of employees located in distant offices around the country, the main problem Lockheed Martin faced was how to...

Tags: Lockheed Martin Corp., Vignette Corp., Intranet, Portals, Government, Web Technology, Vertical Industries, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies

Lockheed Martin Unit Moves SAP From UNIX to Windows, Cuts Technology Cost 41 Percent

SAP software is mission critical to the Missiles and Fire Control unit of global aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin, which wanted to significantly reduce the costs of its deployment while improving its performance. Its solution: migrate the SAP infrastructure from Reduced Instruction Set Computing RISC platforms running UNIX to the Microsoft...

Tags: RISC, Lockheed Martin Corp., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Aerospace & Defense, Processors, Software, Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Case studies

Seamless Integration With SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control LMMFC - a member of the international aerospace and defense group Lockheed Martin - wanted to improve supply chain management and master scheduling. The SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer will enable LMMFC to develop and employ a collaborative multi-company planning process for greater transparency,...

Tags: Lockheed Martin Corp., SAP AG, Integration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Aerospace & Defense, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing

Case studies

Additional Resources

Dems charge federal contracting rife with abuse

Democrats are charging that federal procurements are out of control, fueld by mismanagement and corruption, WashingtonTechnology reports. A report prepared for Rep. Harvey Waxman, senior Democrat on the House Government Reform committee, identified 118 problematic contracts collectively worth $746 billion. The contracts had significant overcharges, wasteful spending and...

Tags: noncompetitive

Blog posts 2006-06-20

$2b RFP for tech surveillance of Mexico, Canada borders

The Dept. of Homeland Security has issued an RFP for Secure Border Initiative-Net (SBI-Net), a $2 billion contract to deply technologial surveillance of not only the entire US-Mexico border but also the US-Canada border, Washington Technology reporter Alice Lipowicz notes. "Under the contract, the system must detect entries when...

Tags: RFP, SBI

Blog posts 2006-04-17