LOCKHEED MARTIN UK CONSORTIUM THROUGH TO THE FINAL
STAGES OF BID FOR THE DEFENCE INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
CONTRACT
17 December 2003
London, United
Kingdom, December 17, 2003 – The
Ministry of Defence (MOD) has
announced that it has selected the
Lockheed Martin UK Consortium as one
of three contenders to go through to
the final stages of the procurement
process to provide the MOD
with its
next generation IT infrastructure.
The Defence Information
Infrastructure (DII) Contract,
potentially valued at £4B over 10
years, will ultimately deliver a
fully integrated and networked IT
capability to the fingertips of the
UK’s Armed Forces. It is a major
integration project involving over
300,000 users, hundreds of
applications and more than 150,000
access devices at over 2000
locations around the world and is
the basis of the MOD’s vision for
the effective sharing of information
and collaborative working. The
Lockheed Martin-led team, which also
includes Hewlett Packard, Unisys, SAIC, Deloitte and QinetiQ, will now
provide a Best and Final Offer (BAFO)
with a decision regarding contract
award expected during the second
half of 2004.
Following the announcement Ian
Stopps CBE, Chief Executive of
Lockheed Martin UK said “This is
tremendous news. I know I speak on
behalf of my colleagues on the
senior executive team, Brian
Hadfield (MD Unisys UK) and Steve
Gill (MD Hewlett-Packard UK) when I
say that our companies are totally
committed to working in partnership
with the MOD
to create a first class
IT infrastructure for the future”.
Mike Hardgrave, Managing Director
UK Programmes, Lockheed Martin UK
Limited said, “The DII project is a
major programme management and
integration task, something we have
proven we excel at, with projects
such as the Defence Fixed
Telecommunication Service (DFTS),
the UK Cooperative Engagement
Capability (CEC), Tomahawk
Integration and of course the Royal
Navy’s new Merlin helicopter. Along
with our team partners, including
Hewlett Packard and Unisys, we can
draw on a great deal of experience
and resource resident in the UK as
well as “reach back” to technologies
and expertise across our companies
in the US. We believe this, coupled
with our unrivalled knowledge of the
network-enabled battlespace of the
future, of which DII will be a key
enabler, puts us in a very strong
position.” We look forward to
working with the MOD
in this next
phase of the procurement.
Lockheed Martin 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. 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 people at over 10 UK
facilities including London,
Reading, Havant, Southampton,
Yeovil, Swindon, Hertford, Bristol
and Cornwall. Headquartered in
Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin
employs about 130,000 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.
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