Lockheed Martin UK Receives Top Supplier Performance Award from UK Air Navigation...

Lockheed Martin UK Receives Top Supplier Performance Award from UK Air
Navigation Service Provider

LONDON, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin UK has received a
prestigious Supplier Performance Award from NATS. This is the second year in a
row that the UK air navigation service provider has honored Lockheed Martin as
its top supplier for meeting supply chain management performance criteria.
"The Lockheed Martin team consistently demonstrates its commitment to
excellence," said NATS Supply Chain and Facilities Management Director Chris
Odam. "This is a great achievement for one of our key suppliers with whom
we've had a long-standing relationship," he said.
Lockheed Martin achieved the highest rating across four key areas being
assessed by NATS in its Supplier Performance Management (SPM) program, which
includes various NATS supply chain management stakeholders. Quantitative and
qualitative criteria were used to measure performance.
A formalized process that benchmarks a supplier's performance, NATS' SPM
program continuously aims to improve how a supplier and a customer work
together in partnership. The categories judged were commercial, delivery,
management systems, and technology and capability.
"Our focus the past year was to map our air traffic management
capabilities with NATS' strategic needs -- now as well as long term. We're
committed to helping NATS achieve its deployment milestones for the Interim
Future Area Control Tools Support (iFACTS) program," said Martin Rolfe,
director of Lockheed Martin's UK air traffic management programs. "I'm proud
that our team is able to provide NATS with the right technology and skills to
help them perform this important task, and pleased that our partnership
continues to prove so effective."
The Lockheed Martin team implements upgrades to the NATS Swanwick Air
Traffic Control Center operating system and supports the development of
iFACTS, which is a decision support tool aimed at increasing a controller's
situational awareness for aircraft separation.
Lockheed Martin UK, a unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation, is a leader in
systems integration working on major programs spanning the aerospace, defense
and civil sectors. Lockheed Martin works with more than 100 business partners
and employs over 1,700 people at sites across the UK.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security
company that 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.
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Marc Holloran, +44-0-2392-443-342, marc.holloran@lmco.com, or Jan Gottfredsen,
+1-301-640-4236, janet.gottfredsen@lmco.com, both of Lockheed Martin