Lockheed Martin [LMT] Monday said it received a $28.6 million follow-on contract to continue sustainment and operations for the Integrated Data Environment / Global Transportation Network Convergence (IGC) program, which provides DoD with near real-time enterprise access to logistics and transportation data used to track assets in motion, in storage and in theater to provide end-to-end supply chain visibility.
Under a 2008 IGC development and sustainment contract, Lockheed Martin was responsible for system design and implementation as the enterprise service provider.
IGC is the United States Transportation Command’s program of record for in-transit visibility and the program of record for the Defense Logistics Agency’s asset visibility system.
A precise shipment tracking system is important for DoD to keep track of weapon systems, passengers, cargo and other mission-relevant supplies.
“Situational awareness is an integral focus for any mission and part of that effort is the awareness of asset locations and deliveries,” said Angela Heise, vice president of Enterprise IT Solutions with Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions. “We’re using actionable logistics information to provide decision-making support for Joint Force Commanders.”
The IGC system creates a distribution network that ensures consistent access to authoritative logistics data, business rules and reliable information. IGC provides the information technology tools for supply and transportation while eliminating redundancies to streamline the support of informed and agile decision making.
Colin Thorn, a Lockheed Martin spokesman, said, “Improving the integrity of our customer’s systems and networks is always a paramount focus. That’s why we work specifically with the Department of Defense to meet and exceed requirements to achieve and maintain an “authority to operate (ATO)” by implementing appropriate security controls based on accreditation requirements and risk assessment.”
IGC integrates more than 950 transaction types from 67 external DoD transportation, logistics and supply system interfaces and over 250 commercial transportation carriers into a single integrated data model to provide complete, consistent, and authoritative data in near-real time.
IGC processes and loads nearly 3.5 billion transactions per month into two active, unclassified and classified environments in support of over 6,000 end users. More than 17,000 business rules have been implemented to accurately integrate data and develop a single version of truth from numerous data sources.