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Lockheed Martin Pursuing Nearly $1.1 Billion In IT Infrastructure Contracts

Gally Articola

Wednesday, May 29th, 2013

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] is pursuing a pair of international information technology (IT) contracts that could value approximately $1.1 billion, according to a key executive. Lockheed Martin Vice President of Enterprise IT Solutions for Defense Angela Heise told Defense Daily the company is pursuing a $1 billion Australian defense department data center consolidation effort where Lockheed Martin would shrink the number of data centers and data rooms from 280 to 11. Heise said she expected an award for the program, known…

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