HAVANT STAFF WIN TOP LOCKHEED MARTIN HONOUR

HAVANT, UK, October 31 2006

A team of 23 Lockheed Martin UK employees have been honoured with the NOVA Award – the very highest accolade the corporation can offer - for their exemplary work on the Merlin helicopter programme.

The team members, all based at the Lockheed Martin UK-Integrated Systems plant in Havant, have been recognised for their outstanding work which has cemented the plant’s reputation as a recognised centre of excellence for vital UK systems integration work, particularly on complex helicopter systems.

Thanks in part to an innovative ‘spend-to-save’ business case which offered an overall cost saving to the Ministry of Defence of £500 million, the team was able to secure a £750 million contract earlier this year to upgrade the Merlin fleet. Upgrades included building in an open system architecture, adding improvements to the mission system processing capability, incorporating large area flat panel displays, and integrating new capabilities for the advanced Radar and Sonar systems. All the enhancements were carefully designed to extend the life of the multi-mission Merlin fleet and make the helicopters, already praised by the Royal Navy, even more capable.

Lockheed Martin UK - Integrated Systems Group Managing Director Ron Christenson said: “This is the most prestigious award that this company confers and to have our Havant team as the recipients not only signifies the team’s impressive level of achievement but also the value Lockheed Martin places on its programme performance in the UK. We are the centre of excellence for systems engineering, our customer knows it, and indeed the entire corporation of 135,000 people knows it.”

Winning team members are: Bill Widner, John Yuhnick, Murray Diamond, Trevor Watkins, Andrew Wickens, Malcolm McKenzie, Nigel Ellis, Mark Hunt, Paul Russell, Bob Hanson, Mark Ryder, Ed Balunas, Jeff Otten, Colin Eldridge, Jon Walter, Carlo Pritchard, Neil Morphett, Mike Mulcahy, Kate Pennington, Sally Cranstone, Dirk Lommelaars, Carey Morton, Paul Feest

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. Lockheed Martin UK, a unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation, is a leader in systems integration working on major programmes spanning the aerospace, defence and civil sectors. Lockheed Martin works with more than 100 business partners and employs over 1500 people at 15 sites across the UK.

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