Lockheed Martin Corporation : CDC Selects Lockheed Martin To Continue Critical IT And Operational Support Under $47.7 Million Contract
August 28, 2013 at 04:35 pm EDT
By
Share
ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug. 28, 2013 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] $47.7 million in contract funding to continue providing information technology (IT), operational and logistics support for multiple divisions of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR). These services are vital to ensure CDC OPHPR can help the nation prepare for and respond to public health threats and emergencies.
"At the national, state and local levels, OPHPR manages many elements of our country's public health and emergency response capability," said Glenn Kurowski, vice president of health and life sciences for Lockheed Martin's Information Systems & Global Solutions business. "Lockheed Martin has been a longtime CDC partner supporting multiple requirements; we take a mission-focused approach to design and implement tailored IT and operational solutions that help protect our citizens."
Since 1999, Lockheed Martin has provided around-the-clock IT, consulting and emergency operations to CDC's OPHPR during public health incidents and normal operations. The company also provides infrastructure services for the Strategic National Stockpile, which stores medicine and medical supplies to protect the American public if a severe public health emergency depletes local resources.
Lockheed Martin supports staffing and training for the CDC's Emergency Operations Center, and is partnering with the EOC on a dashboard to enable federal, state and local agencies to share data in real time. Over the past five years, Lockheed Martin also helped CDC process more than $4 billion in grant money to aid state and local public health departments to better prepare for public health emergency and response. Work performed for CDC OPHPR will include:
Expertise and services (consulting, technical, professional, logistical and administrative) to enable OPHPR to meet its public health and preparedness mission
Infrastructure and IT applications that enable accounting and tracking capabilities for the Division of the Strategic National Stockpile
Support for the Division of Emergency Operations to ensure public health emergency and response efforts are coordinated efficiently
Management and support of the Division of State and Local Readiness' grant management program, Preparedness Emergency Response System for Oversight, Reporting and Management Services (PERFORMS).
Lockheed Martin is engineering safe and efficient health care solutions for federal partners. Leveraging its experience in systems integration, the company safeguards crucial healthcare data; supports claims processing and disability examinations for millions of veterans; enables clinical research through cloud computing and data analytics; innovates with mobile solutions; and drives efficiency with intelligent application of information technologies.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs about 116,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation's net sales for 2012 were $47.2 billion.
Lockheed Martin Corporation specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of aeronautic, submarine, and aerospace systems. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- sale of aeronautic systems (40.7%): military and civilian aircraft, primarily for government organizations;
- sale of helicopters, mission and electronic systems (24%): military and commercial helicopters, ships, sea and land-based missile defense systems, radars, sensors, sea and air-based mission and combat systems, training systems, cyber solutions, command, control and communication systems, surveillance and reconnaissance systems, simulation and training systems, etc.;
- sales of aerospace systems (18.7%): satellite systems, missile systems and space transport systems;
- sale of air defense and fire control systems (16.6%): air and missile defense systems, tactical missiles, precision strike weapons systems, fire control systems, etc. The group also offers support services for mission operations, preparation, technical support, integration services, etc.
Net sales break down by source of income into sales of products (83.3%) and services (16.7%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (74.3%), Europe (9.5%), Asia/Pacific (8.3%), Middle East (5.8%) and other (2.1%).
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION 
By 
