LOCKHEED MARTIN WINS NEW CONTRACT ON DEFENCE FIXED
TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE PROGRAMME
10 June 2003
London, United Kingdom – June 10,
2003 –Lockheed Martin has announced that it has
been awarded a further contract for the Defence
Fixed Telecommunications Service (DFTS). The new
contract includes scope for Programme
Management, Risk, Business Efficiency, Quality
Assurance, Configuration Management Leadership
and IT services.
As a partner to BT, Lockheed Martin UK Ltd is
part of the highly-regarded consortium working
on the DFTS programme. The privately financed
initiative, initially awarded in 1997 provides
the UK Ministry of Defence with secure and
survivable telecommunications for the future,
enables efficient delivery of service and allows
substantial cost savings whilst improving
operational effectiveness. The programme
amalgamates the existing private and secure
communications currently used by the Royal Air
Force, Royal Navy and British Army. The DFTS
programme has provided the MOD
with the
mechanisms to support the migration from the
previous fixed communications networks to a
single automated and integrated system. The
resulting high speed, secure services, complete
with computer-enhanced communication data
services, is markedly more responsive to user
demand and covers the whole of the UK mainland.
Mike Hardgrave, Managing Director of Lockheed
Martin UK Mission Systems said, “We are
delighted to be part of this very successful
team delivering the DFTS programme. DFTS has
provided Lockheed Martin with a further
opportunity to demonstrate our core skills of
programme management and systems integration on
a very complex task”.
Lockheed Martin UK, a unit of Lockheed Martin
Corporation, is a leader in systems integration
working on major programmes spanning the
aerospace, defence, civil and commercial sectors
with significant capabilities in the transport
infrastructure market. In the UK, Lockheed
Martin has annual sales in the range of £400-600
million working with more than 75 business
partners. Lockheed Martin employs approximately
1,000 people at over 10 UK facilities including
London, Havant, Southampton, Yeovil, Swindon,
Hertford, Bristol and Cornwall.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed
Martin employs about 125,000 people worldwide
and is principally engaged in the research,
design, development, manufacture and integration
of advanced technology systems, products and
services. The Corporation reported 2002 sales of
$26.6 billion.
Contact Lockheed Martin:
Jeremy Greaves, on: +44(0)2392 44 3977 (mob)
+44(0)7887 506338 email: jeremy.greaves@lmco.com
or Chris Trippick +44(0)207
798 2856 (mob) +44 (0)7905 356 646 email:
chris.trippick@lmco.com
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