Lockheed Martin to Provide UK With Second Phase of Joint Asset Management and Engineering...

Lockheed Martin to Provide UK With Second Phase of Joint Asset Management and
Engineering Solutions Programme

LONDON, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will add new
capabilities to the UK Ministry of Defence's Joint Asset Management and
Engineering Solutions (JAMES) logistics support programme under a recent
contract amendment valued at 75 million pounds Sterling.
Designed by Lockheed Martin Simulation, Training & Support and first
deployed in July 2005, JAMES currently manages more than 60,000 pieces of
equipment for the British Army giving users and commanders the ability to
identify the availability, status, condition, ownership and location of a
piece of equipment in moments. The newest phase of the programme, called
JAMES Land, will extend the system to include ground-based equipment used by
the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, in addition to the British Army additional
capabilities. It also will enhance existing diagnostic capabilities to
provide comprehensive integrated logistics support for covered equipment.
"I am delighted that we are moving JAMES forward to the next stage. This
will enable UK MOD to fully implement the centralised management of our Land
Environment vehicle fleet," said MOD Director of Whole Fleet Management, Mike
Venables. "Our joint working with Lockheed Martin has delivered the first
increment most successfully and I look forward to building on this
relationship to deliver the much-anticipated future capability that JAMES Land
represents."
Group Captain Barrie Thomson, Assistant Director, JAMES Programme, said,
"JAMES Land will provide a significant increase in capability for the MOD and
builds on the engineering and asset management capabilities that have already
been deployed. It has been successful because the system gives us the right
information at the right time, and gives commanders unprecedented information
about the status of equipment in a straightforward manner."
The system provides additional data for maintenance, repair, modification
and overhaul activities and increases the scope of equipment managed by the
system to include nearly all equipment in the land environment used by the
Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force. It expands maintenance processes
from simply indicating equipment faults to identifying the task needed,
determining spare requirements, planning resources required, recording data on
the maintenance of the equipment and spares consumed, and tracking the
equipment when it returns to service.
"JAMES has proven its supreme capability over the last four years, with
more than 9,000 users processing as many as one million transactions a month.
Increment two will bring new mobility, new functionality and much improved
data fidelity, giving users clear visibility across a complex and busy fleet,"
explained Debra Palmer, vice president of Lockheed Martin Simulation, Training
& Support's Enterprise Logistics Solutions. "JAMES is becoming the benchmark
for logistics information technology systems. The system turns data into
knowledge that can be the deciding factor on the battlefield."
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. The Corporation reported 2007 sales of $41.9
billion.
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 1700 people at 12 sites across the UK.
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