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Lockheed Martin Negotiating Billion-Dollar Australia CIO Centralized Processing Deal

Pat Host

Wednesday, August 13th, 2014

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Lockheed Martin Negotiating Billion-Dollar Australia CIO Centralized Processing Deal

The legacy NATO headquarters in Brussels. Photo: NATO.

A key Lockheed Martin [LMT] executive expects final negotiations to wrap up by the end of September for a potential $1 billion deal to centralize data centers for Australia’s defense department. Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Global Solutions Vice President for Enterprise Information Technology (IT) Angela Heise told Defense Daily Wednesday the company performed about 100 workshops this year refining requirements and walking Australia through the details relevant to the company’s bid. Heise told Defense Daily in 2013 that the…

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