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 UGS: About Us: Customer Case Studies and Videos: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics builds the finest military aircraft in the world including the F/A-22, the F-16, the C-130J, the F-117 and the next-generation fighter, the F-35.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics (Lockheed Martin), which won the contract to produce the F-35, is developing an aircraft fleet that satisfies the diverse program requirements of the highest-profile program in the aerospace and defense industry's history.
Lockheed Martin's strategy is to create a common design with affordable variants that meet the individual requirements of the different services.
www.ugs.com /about_us/success/lockheed_martin.shtml   (1042 words)

  
 News from Lockheed Martin UK
After seven years of competition, Lockheed Martin was awarded a U.S. Department of Defense contract last October to begin full-scale development of the F-35, the stealthy multi-service fighter that will replace thousands of aging aircraft in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.
Lockheed Martin is developing the F-35 JSF in conjunction with its principal partners, Northrop Grumman and BAE SYSTEMS.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. is a leader in the design, development, systems integration, production and support of advanced military aircraft and related technologies.
www.lockheedmartin.co.uk /news/83.html   (599 words)

  
 Gunman Opens Fire at Lockheed Martin Plant, Six Dead
But Booker Steverson, a Lockheed Martin employee who was helping assemble an airplane when he heard the first shot, said Williams was known as a "racist'' who didn't like fls.
Lockheed Martin is the largest defense contractor in the United States.
Besides the Lockheed Martin plant, the area is home to a naval air station and an Air National Guard training facility.
www.space.com /news/lockheed_shooting_030708-1.html   (469 words)

  
 Lockheed Martin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lockheed Martin is the world's largest defense contractor (by defense revenue).
In 1998, Lockheed Martin abandoned plans to merge with Northrop Grumman due to government concerns over the potential strength of the new group (Lockheed/Northrop would have had control of 25% of the DoD's procurement budget).
Lockheed Martin sponsors the Lockheed Martin Maintenance Trophy which is an annual competition that runs in parallel with the Fincastle competition in which groundcrews of the P-3 Orion and the Nimrod MR2 take part in various tasks and exercises to see who comes out on top.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lockheed-Martin   (735 words)

  
 PRESS RELEASE Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Selects PLM Solutions From IBM and Dassault Systèmes for the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Working with key stakeholders, Lockheed Martin has developed a migration plan that includes an implementation schedule, training and IT plans, associated costs, risks and mitigation, to ensure CATIA V5 is in place in February 2006.
With these leading solutions, Lockheed Martin teams will be able to collaborate and work more efficiently, both within the company and with its extended network of suppliers and partners.
Lockheed has raised the bar for reducing costs, decreasing development time, and enhancing product quality for this important government program, and our PLM solutions are a perfect fit for their demanding expectations."
www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=104464   (856 words)

  
 Collaboration Is Cornerstone Of $19B Defense Contract - News by InformationWeek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.'s ability to share complex project information across an extended supply chain in real time was key in its recent win of a $19 billion Defense Department contract to build 21 supersonic stealth fighters.
The contract, which was awarded to the Lockheed unit and partners Northrop Grumman Corp. and BAE Systems on Oct. 26, is the first installment in what could amount to a $200 billion program for 3,000 jet fighters over a 40-year period.
At the same time, Lockheed must design a logistics support system that will be as new and innovative for the Defense Department as it is for Lockheed.
www.informationweek.com /story/IWK20011109S0023   (858 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- The X 33 rocketplane project, a single-stage-to-orbit spacecraft, has stalled due to design problems.
For Lockheed Martin, lessons learned in building and flying X 33 are key to validating new technologies and reducing risk for the commercial VentureStar -- the firm's fully reusable, single-stage-to-orbit vehicle.
NASA and Lockheed Martin are conducting the X 33 program under a cooperative agreement, the largest industry cost-sharing venture in NASA's history.
Lastly, Lockheed Martin is faced with coughing up more funds to assure the X 33 is a technical success.
www.space.com /businesstechnology/technology/x-33_update_000612.html   (1101 words)

  
 Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company :: Lockheed Martin Forms Department of Defense Mentor-Protege Pact With Alaska ...
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, an approved Department of Defense mentor, will leverage the Mentor-Protege relationship to help ACTI develop its capabilities for defense, aerospace and commercial markets during a three-year period, working through the U.S. Air Force Mentor-Protege office.
"Lockheed Martin will work toward developing ACTI into a first-class composite supplier, capable of producing more complex aerospace-quality structures for Department of Defense prime contractors in the aeronautics and space business areas," said Samuel E. Evans, director of Small Business and Non-Production Procurement for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics.
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.
sev.prnewswire.com /aerospace-defense/20061011/DAW02311102006-1.html   (406 words)

  
 Lockheed Martin Case Study   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Martin advanced from the first stage of a multi-million dollar bid process and was selected as one of the Phase II QSP developers challenged to meet DARPA’s goals.
Lockheed Martin is competing with other aerospace engineering companies to develop a solution that best meets DARPA’s requirements.
Lockheed Martin’s rapid conceptual design method using Phoenix software was applied in the QSP design process.
www.phoenix-int.com /LM_profile.htm   (522 words)

  
 Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company - FileMaker
What worked twenty years ago isn't likely to meet today's challenges -- let alone tomorrow's and at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, one of the leaders in the high-tech world of aerospace, this is especially true.
LM Aeronautics Flight Test Instrumentation group -- charged with the essential task of ensuring that airborne test instruments and transducers are functional and reliable -- had a data storage system that had really outlived its practical lifespan.
Lockheed Martin's Flight Test Instrumentation Group ensures that airborne test instruments and transducers are functional and reliable, a job that requires functional and reliable data tracking.
www.filemaker.com /solutions/customers/stories/265.html   (583 words)

  
 IP Challenge—From Employee Badge to LMS and No Paper in Sight
Lockheed Martin instructors historically used paper rosters to collect attendance and to serve as reference for manual entry of training completions into Lockheed Martin Aeronautics’s learning management system (LMS).
The collected data is uploaded to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics’s LMS on a daily basis thus providing timely and accurate employee training records.
When defense and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Corporation decided several years ago to outsource training design, delivery, and administration functions, it turned to a company that was equally familiar with its business--aerospace heavyweight and frequent competitor and partner Raytheon Company.
www.learningcircuits.org /2004/jul2004/harris.htm   (837 words)

  
 Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor
The 'team' was formed in 1986, when Lockheed, Boeing and General Dynamics (now Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.) joined forces for the Advanced Tactical Fighter competition.
The YF-22A is unveiled at the Lockheed plant in Palmdale.
Lockheed, Boeing and General Dynamics 'team' submits its proposal for the F-22 to the USAF.
www.aeroflight.co.uk /types/usa/lockheed_martin/f-22/F-22_Raptor.htm   (1011 words)

  
 Lockheed Martin > Aeronautics > Skunk Works®
Now owned by Lockheed Martin Corporation, the marks were first used during World War II and are still used today.
Lockheed Martin honors the service of the many dedicated men and women who have contributed to the fame of the SKUNK WORKS® marks through vigilant preservation of these marks and the brand equity they represent.
Thus, these marks may not be used by others on their own goods and services without prior written approval by Lockheed Martin.
www.skunkworks.net   (149 words)

  
 Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems (Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company) - Ft. Worth, TX:Supplier Performance ...
Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems (LMTAS) has established a new program, referred to as the Supplier Performance Evaluation and Review (SPEAR) Program, to monitor the performance of those suppliers whose performance falls below required levels.
Lockheed uses this plan to monitor progress of the resulting corrective actions.
The supplier not only is given the opportunity to remain a viable source to Lockheed through corrective action, but also benefits by the quality and schedule improvements made to its products.
www.bmpcoe.org /bestpractices/internal/lmtas/lmtas_31.html   (382 words)

  
 Cost estimating tools increase cost estimation reliability - SEER
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company first licensed SEER-SEM more than five years ago.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company is known for building the most advanced military aircraft in the world, including the proven and affordable fighter, the F-16; the versatile airlifter, the C-130J; the first operational stealth fighter, the F-117; and the advanced tactical fighter, the F-22.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., a business area of Lockheed Martin, is a leader in the design, development, systems integration, production and support of advanced military aircraft and related technologies.
www.galorath.com /news_PR-030722.html   (369 words)

  
 EP3 Photos
Members of the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. recovery team continue loading parts and equipment onboard the AN-124 in preparation for the EP-3's return to the United States.
The Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. recovery team is performing disassembly work on the EP-3 at Lingshui Airfield in preparation for its return to the United States.
HAINAN ISLAND, China— The Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. recovery team prepares the AN-124 aircraft June 18 to transport the damaged EP-3 from Lingshui Airfield.
www.pacom.mil /pages/ep3photos.htm   (3008 words)

  
 Visiprise: Integrating Manufacturing Operations
ATLANTA, GA - March 28, 2006 Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, a division of Lockheed Martin Corporation and recognized world leader in the design and manufacture of the finest military aircraft, has seen measurable increases in productivity and quality with the help of Visiprise.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics developed the Electronic Work Instructions (EWI) project as a competitive measure of product quality, and business processes and infrastructure for the design and manufacture of the F-35, the next-generation joint strike fighter.
Specifically, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics’ goals for EWI were to improve data integrity, reduce costs of data generation, increase delivery access and use, enhance user-friendliness on the shop floor and reduce system support costs.
www.visiprise.com /news-pr-20060328.htm   (536 words)

  
 PBS - Chasing the Sun - Lockheed Brothers
Shortly after being sold, Lockheed Aircraft went bankrupt, unable to stay afloat during the Depression.
Over the next few decades, the Lockheed Air Corporation would continue to develop innovative planes such as the economical Electra and the high-performance Constellation.
His love of flying never diminished, though, and Allan Lockheed kept an informal relationship with the Lockheed Air Corporation until his death in 1969.
www.pbs.org /kcet/chasingthesun/innovators/lockheed.html   (691 words)

  
 Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company :: Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter Officially Named 'Lightning II'
Likewise, the P-38 Lightning was built by Lockheed, now Lockheed Martin, the JSF program's prime contractor.
Lockheed Martin is developing the F-35 with its principal industrial partners, Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 135,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.
sev.prnewswire.com /aerospace-defense/20060707/DAF01007072006-1.html   (595 words)

  
 UT Austin College of Engineering -- Lockheed Martin Award
For 51 years, Lockheed Martin, has sponsored an award for excellence in engineering teaching to reward a College of Engineering faculty member for exceptional teaching.
The 2006 recipient of the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching is Dr.
In addition to the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching, the College also recognizes the recipient of the Award for Outstanding Engineering Teaching by an Assistant Professor,
www.engr.utexas.edu /aboutfacstaff/facawards/lockheed.cfm   (240 words)

  
 MCA Solutions - Lockheed Martin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In 2001, after years of competition with other prominent defense contractors, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics was chosen to build and support the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Now, Lockheed Martin, one of the world's largest system integrators, is teaming with MCA Solutions to analyze performance-based logistics (PBL) agreements for weapons and systems support.
MCA and Lockheed Martin, along with a team of faculty and students from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, will identify strategies and solutions to support PBL pricing formulas, to drive optimum product up-time.
www.mcasolutions.com /case/lm.html   (197 words)

  
 Good News Rains on Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Lockheed Martin is reporting a flurry of sales and potential sales in its aeronautics sector in a year that's critical to the company as it tries to recover from a bad news year in 1999.
Lockheed Martin officials hope the recent news of F-16 deals involving Singapore, Thailand and the U.S. Air Force, all within a few days, will be symbolic for the future of the aeronautics sector, which has been reorganized and put under new leadership over the past months.
The most significant of the latest news is Singapore's decision to replace A-4 Super Skyhawks by buying 20 new F-16s, augmenting the 37 F-16s the country already has in service.
www.aviationnow.com /shownews/00farn1/topsto19.htm   (323 words)

  
 Engineering Enterprise -
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company (LM Aero) was established in January 2000 from three separate Lockheed Martin Corporation aeronautics companies.
LM Aero was the LM Corporation's consolidation of its three separate aeronautics companies: Tactical Systems in Fort Worth, Texas; Aeronautical Systems in Marietta, Georgia; and the Skunk Works in Palmdale, California.
Systematic methodologies for efficiently "designing, transforming and building" enterprises would be a most welcome addition to companies and enterprises where continuous organizational change and adaptation to external influences is now the "new normal" in business.
www.lionhrtpub.com /ee/winter03/company.html   (2953 words)

  
 Lockheed workers strike - Apr. 10, 2000
NEW YORK (CNNfn) - About 2,300 workers went on strike Monday at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.'s giant Fort Worth, Texas, plant demanding better benefits and wages.
    Shares of Lockheed Martin (LMT: Research, Estimates) were down 1/16 to 21 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange Monday.
    Lockheed is the second-largest employer of Tarrant County, Texas, with a work force of about 10,500.
money.cnn.com /2000/04/10/companies/lockheed   (594 words)

  
 HMS Software Receives $1.5 Million Follow-On Order from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, is a leader in the design, development, systems integration, production and support of advanced military aircraft and related technologies.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. is a unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., 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.
www.tmcnet.com /usubmit/2005/jan/1108659.htm   (1313 words)

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