U.S. Navy Selects Lockheed Martin to Continue Development of Secure Information Sharing...

U.S. Navy Selects Lockheed Martin to Continue Development of Secure
Information Sharing System
Radiant Mercury Provides Cyber Security For More Than 480 Systems

SAN DIEGO, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin
(NYSE: LMT) an indefinite-delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to
continue the development of Radiant Mercury, a secure Multi-National
Information Sharing system used by the Department of Defense. Considered to
be one of the premier cross-domain solutions, Radiant Mercury is a critical
component of many security domains used by DoD, national intelligence
agencies, as well as U.S. coalition partners.

This IDIQ contract entails field support for 483 Radiant Mercury systems
worldwide, as well as continued enhancement to the system's capabilities.
Lockheed Martin's team will support approximately 80 task orders per year
which have a contract ceiling of approximately $74M over the five-year time
period. Three initial task orders were received with a potential value of
$3.5M.

"Radiant Mercury bridges a gap in intelligence sharing," said Jim Quinn, vice
president of C4ISR Systems for Lockheed Martin's IS&GS-Defense. "Since
developing the system in 1992, we have met the operational needs of our
customers throughout the world. We will continue to evolve the system to
ensure that critical data is accessible to those who need it most."

Radiant Mercury incorporates a suite of high-assurance, trusted,
network-encryption technologies that "guards" classified and sensitive data
from unauthorized access while protecting networks from intended/unintended
corruption by 'malicious' or hidden code.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security company
that employs about 146,000 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
2008 sales of $42.7 billion.

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Suzanne Smith of Lockheed Martin +1-303-932-5230, suzanne.m.smith@lmco.com