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- 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 Lifecycle Management, 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
- Navy Standard Integrated Personnel System: Supporting Best Business Practices for the Enterprise
- Lockheed Martin has partnered with the United States Navy on a development strategy that includes the use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf COTS products, such as PeopleSoft, Business Objects and Oracle. This approach takes advantage of Business Process Re-engineering and continuous process improvement to achieve commercial HR 'best practices.' This enterprise-wide, COTS-based, single...
- Tags: Lockheed Martin Corp., COTS, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), It Operations
- White papers 2004-06-14
- 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
- With IBM Rational Rose and IBM WebSphere Studio, Lockheed Martin Leverages Models Throughout Development
- Through integration between IBM WebSphere Studio and IBM Rational Rose, Lockheed Martin is able to drive code development using visual models as a foundation. WebSphere Studio's integration with Rational Rose allowed a seamless integration between the teams that were doing the UML modeling and the teams that were doing the...
- Tags: IBM WebSphere Studio, IBM WebSphere, Lockheed Martin Corp., IBM Rational Rose, IBM Corp., Integration, Application Servers, Java Development Tools, Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Case studies
- Neoware Systems Case Study: Lockheed Martin
- Lockheed Martin is a customer-focused, global enterprise principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems, products and services for government and commercial customers. It selected Neoware thin client appliances to provide a seamless replacement within its current environment for obsolete X Window terminals. Lockheed...
- Tags: Lockheed Martin Corp., Thin Client, Neoware Systems, Thin Client Appliance, Thin Clients, Hardware
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- Lockheed Martin: Sun and PTC Provide Smooth Sailing for Lockheed
- Lockheed Martin's Naval Electronics and Surveillance Systems (NE&SS)-Surface Systems is Lockheed Martin's Center for Excellence in combat system engineering development, production, integration, test, and lifetime support for naval surface ships. In an effort to provide the cutting edge data sharing required to support the changing needs of the defense customer...
- Tags: Lockheed Martin Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Product Development, Leadership, Sun Solaris, Storage, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Case studies
- OpenMaster for Telecom Case Studies: Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications
- Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications LMGT, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, is a premier global provider of network services and advanced technology solutions to enterprise, commercial and government customers. The challenge faced was to improve the management of its time division multiple access TDMA networks, which are used by...
- Tags: Groupe Bull, Lockheed Martin Corp., Evidian, Intelsat Ltd., Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies
- VMware Helps Lockheed Martin Space Operations Provide Low-Cost, Efficient Support to NASA
- When Lockheed Martin Space Operations was awarded NASA's $3 billion+ Consolidated Space Operations Contract CSOC, the contractor took on the responsibility of providing end-to-end space operations support for NASA missions, including the Space Shuttle and International Space Station mission operations and planning systems design, development, and integration. They needed to...
- Tags: NASA, Lockheed Martin Corp., VMware Inc., EMC Corp., Storage, Microsoft Windows NT, Linux, Hardware, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
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