Lockheed Martin Information Systems Team Wins C-130 Aircrew Training Systems Contract.ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 1999-- Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. Information Systems has been awarded a contract worth approximately $267 million over 10 years from the U.S. Air Force to modify and operate formal school training for C-130 aircrews. Modifications to the existing training system include improved visual system, upgraded aerodynamics aerodynamics, study of gases in motion. As the principal application of aerodynamics is the design of aircraft, air is the gas with which the science is most concerned. models, new instructor/operator stations, new radar simulation, and an enhanced traffic advisory system. Approximately 12,000 students per year are expected to train at five Air Force bases in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and at three remote sites. A sixth domestic facility is scheduled to begin operation in 2000, training U.S. Air Force, Air Reserves, Navy, and Coast Guard aircrews. "This award recognizes our leading-edge capability in flight training," said Lockheed Martin Information Systems President John Hallal. "We supply a complete, long-term training solution that is critical to quality schoolhouse training." Teamed with Lockheed Martin in the training program is Reflectone, Inc. of Tampa, Florida “Tampa” redirects here. For other uses, see Tampa (disambiguation). Tampa is a United States city in Hillsborough County, on the west coast of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County.GR6. . Reflectone will provide significant upgrades to the C-130 Operational Flight Trainers for aircraft concurrency Operations that are performed simultaneously within the computer. For example, dual-core CPUs provide complete overlapping of two independent processes. See dual core, hyperthreading, multiprocessing, multitasking, multithreading, SMP and MPP. concurrency - multitasking and simulation fidelity improvements. Reflectone will also provide logistics support for the existing C-130 training devices and engineering support for training center operations. Part of the Corporation's $5.2 billion Information & Services Sector, Lockheed Martin Information Systems is a world leader in the delivery of support solutions for customer programs, to include integrated information technology (company) Integrated Information Technology - (IIT) A Santa Clara based company producing a programmable, single chip H.261 and MPEG system. The chip contains a RISC processor, originally based on the MIPS architecture but now called RISCit, and a "Pixel Processor". and identification, automated test systems, and simulation and training. Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland Bethesda is an urbanized, but unincorporated, area in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, just Northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a church located there, the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, built in 1820 and rebuilt in 1850, which in turn took its name from , Lockheed Martin is a highly diversified global enterprise principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced-technology systems, products and services. The Corporation's core businesses span space and telecommunications, electronics, information and services, aeronautics, energy and systems integration. Employing more than 161,000 people worldwide, Lockheed Martin had 1998 sales surpassing $26 billion. |
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