Lockheed Martin 2005 Annual Report Download - page 6

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successfully leveraged the Systems and IT expertise
resident across the enterprise to offer the New York
Metropolitan Transit Authority the best design for a
critical infrastructure protection system. This project
will integrate command, control and communications
capabilities throughout the entire New York City and
suburban transit system.
Winning and delivering on this vital domestic secu-
rity contract, as well as other complex systems efforts,
requires that we adhere to our strategy of Horizontal
Integration, in which we align ourselves internally and
apply our resources to provide the best solutions for our
customers’ challenges. Horizontal Integration also
means teaming effectively across the global supply
chain—to remain the industry partner of choice in the
United States and more than 50 other countries.
Organizing the right teams and resources was the
rationale behind establishing our Maritime Surveillance
Enterprise in 2005. This corporate-wide effort to sup-
port the Navy’s maritime patrol and reconnaissance mis-
sion mobilizes the expertise we need to perform at our
peak on existing programs and to capture new business.
As we continue to transform Lockheed Martin
into a fully networked global security enterprise, we
can point with great pride to the opening of our Center
for Innovation in April 2005.
Located in Suffolk, Virginia, the Center for
Innovation is an advanced laboratory dedicated to
experimentation, simulation and analysis. The Center
for Innovation is backed by a nationwide network of
our best labs and brightest minds, burnishing Lockheed
Martin’s credentials as a technology and business inno-
vator; it is a position that we must not cede to any of our
competitors. In the long run, we believe the Center for
Innovation will support our goal to add new business
orders and grow our backlog.
In a time of vigorous competition, the advantage
goes to the company with foresight and creative think-
ing. Although we are not a helicopter manufacturer, we
were selected in 2005 to lead the VH-71 Presidential
Helicopter program. Our team also laid the keel for the
U.S. Navy’s first advanced Littoral Combat Ship in
2005, although we are not a shipbuilder. These accom-
plishments are indicative of our people—their brain-
power and unyielding passion to invent, perfect, perform
and team with partners to create best value solutions.
Significant milestones in 2005 also included:
• We are on track for the first flight of the F-35 Joint
Strike Fighter later this year, as the majority of this
aircraft’s structural assembly was completed in 2005.
• The F-22 Raptor reached Initial Operational
Capability in 2005. Together, the F-22 and the F-35
will ensure air dominance for the U.S. military and
joint forces against threats for the next 40 years.
• The Federal Aviation Administration began use of
our Advanced Technologies and Oceanic Procedures
(ATOP) system, which will increase the capacity
and efficiency of international air travel. Sixty per-
cent of the world’s air traffic is controlled by our
air traffic management systems.
• We received the first international orders for the
combat-proven Patriot Advanced Capability-3
(PAC-3) missile from The Netherlands and Japan.
• Lockheed Martin was selected to process informa-
tion gathered for the Year 2010 U.S. Census, build-
ing on our success on the Year 2000 U.S. Census
and the 2001 U.K. Census.
• The venerable Titan IV celebrated 50 years of suc-
cess with its historic final launch on October 19.
We also celebrated 50 years of unmatched perfor-
mance of the U-2 which continues to provide high-
altitude reconnaissance for our national security.
• The C-130J transport aircraft, being deployed in
southwest Asia, achieved a major performance
milestone by completing operational testing. It is a
significant step to finalizing the U.S. Air Force’s
Operational Test & Evaluation.