SBIS Real Property Management application installed at Fort Knox and Fort Drum.

SPRINGFIELD, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--November 6, 1996--Lockheed Martin Federal Systems in Owego, N.Y., a business unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT), announced the installation at Fort Knox, Ky., and Fort Drum, N.Y., of the Real Property Management (RMAT) software application. The application is one of several currently being deployed by Lockheed Martin under the U.S. Army's Sustaining Base Information Services (SBIS) contract.

The RMAT application provides geographic information systems (GIS) capability for Army bases to support training and exercise missions, maintain real estate property inventory on-line and provide access to mapping and geographic information of Army installations. RMAT also demonstrates how commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology meets information systems upgrade requirements in keeping with DoD efforts to increase operating efficiencies and reduce maintenance costs.

Following installation and validation at Fort Knox and Fort Drum, the RMAT application will be available to be fielded to other sites throughout the country. "We are beginning to gather the fruits of our labor from the hard work of past years," said Roxanne Austin, Army Project Manager for Sustaining Base Automation. "RMAT is one of several vitally needed applications coming on line that are already making a difference in cost-savings and efficiencies throughout the Army."

Benefits from RMAT are expected to be widespread. For example, RMAT automates base-wide planning, design and maintenance functions , many of which have been done manually.

Functions the application will support include:

-- Planning - support for the Military Construction Army Program -- Real Estate - maintenance of land acquisition records and building

disposal -- Architecture and engineering - project management and archiving -- Design - map maintenance and construction design -- Management Systems - facility management -- Buildings, Grounds and Utilities - utility and map research, as well

as facility maintenance -- Combat Systems Testing, Ballistics Range Lab, Chemical Research -

facility management -- Environmental Management - environmental regulation compliance -- Sanitation Branch - managing waste water

Users at each installation share a common GIS database on a Local Area Network. All systems are running in Microsoft Windows NT workstation and server operating environments. Interoperability with UNIX standards is essential as SBIS modernizes the U.S. Army's installation information management systems by converting to an open systems environment.

Federal Systems recently announced successful limited testing milestones for two other key SBIS applications, Safety/Risk Management and Security Clearance.

SBIS is an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract which is open to all DoD organizations. More than 1,700 hardware and software products and services are available. The SBIS catalog and ordering information may be found on the Internet at the SBIS address: http://www.sbis.idiq.com/sbisidiq.

Lockheed Martin Federal Systems in Owego provides advanced solutions in systems integration, program management, hardware and software development, manufacturing and logistics support for a variety of government, commercial and international programs.

Lockheed Martin Corporation, headquartered in Bethesda, Md., is a highly diversified advanced technology company with annualized sales of nearly $30 billion and more than 190,000 employees worldwide.

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