On 13 Apr 2004 19:59:48 -0700, (ZZBunker) wrote:

"Carl R. Osterwald" wrote in message ...
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On 13 Apr 2004 11:02:41 GMT, John Griffin wrote:

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I doubt Lockheed will change its mind about controlling
nearly all of the US government.

Well, you don't to worry that much. Bill Gates and
the people who actually own the world don't
care what either Lockheed, Boeing, Ford, AT&T,
or any other branch of the US Government other
than the Social Security Adminstration does.


Ah, I was wondering when someone would mention
The Social Security Administration! And more!
Guess who is raping and plunderng that?
You guessed it....... Lockheed!

http://www.iss.lmco.com/itsolutions/...astructure.cfm

Social Security Administration Infrastructure

Lockheed Martin provides the Social Security Administration with an
extensive range of infrastructure services to assist the agency in ensuring
the availability of mission-critical applications and systems. In the
mainframe environment, we provide complete performance monitoring and
systems management support. For client/server infrastructure, we provide
development and implementation support that, in some instances, involve all
of the Social Security Administration's 1500 LANs. Lockheed Martin also
provides network management, telecommunications, help desk and operations
support, comprehensive desktop computing support, database administration
and maintenance, electronic publishing using Web technologies, and office
automation through groupware architecture and electronic forms.

Lockheed Martin is responsible for providing central data security
management for a significant portion of the Social Security Administration's
distributed, 65,000-user IT environment. This includes addressing the
specific security requirements of the Windows NT, UNIX, and MVS processing
platforms, using logical and physical protective measures to protect network
and computing resources from both inside and outside attack. Lockheed Martin
also performs analysis and research in the development and implementation of
authentication, public key infrastructure (PKI), and other Web security
approaches and infrastructures for the Social Security Administration


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AND Medicare!

Lockheed Martin Wins Medicare IT Contract

May 6, 2002 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Lockheed Martin Corporation
(lockheedmartin.com) announced on Friday that it has won a 7.5 year contract
to provide information technology and infrastructure support for the federal
government’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Under the $401 million Consolidated Information Technology Infrastructure
Contract (CITIC), says Lockheed Martin, CMS has combined multiple agency
contracts, currently performed by several contractors, in an effort to
improve the IT infrastructure’s efficiency and increase its effectiveness in
meeting CMS business needs.

Lockheed Martin Information Technology will assume responsibility for
operating the agency’s main data center in Woodlawn, Maryland, and its
server and desktop platforms nationwide. The company will also manage and
maintain the agency’s voice, video and data communications networks.

The contract also includes a full range of security and privacy services,
help desk support, database management, Web casting, and Web hosting,
infrastructure management and disaster recovery planning.

"Our corporation is proud to partner with the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services,” says Linda Gooden, president of Lockheed Martin
Information Technology. “Clearly, there are few IT projects in our country
more important to so many Americans than those which help the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services process and deliver essential health care
benefits. We are proud to be part of this team as we begin our new role to
renovate and restructure the agency's vital IT backbone."

According to Lockheed Martin Information Technology, the company currently
provides an extensive range of IT infrastructure services for a range of
federal agencies, including the Social Security Administration, the
Department of Energy’s Hanford site, the Environmental Protection Agency and
the Department of Defense, as well as numerous commercial clients.

The CMS contract, says Lockheed Martin, was awarded through the National
Institutes of Health Chief Information Officers Solutions and Partners II
contracting vehicle, and begins immediately.

An agency within the US Department of Health and Human Service, the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid serves about 75 million beneficiaries through
Medicare, Medicaid, the State Children’s Health Program and other health
care quality assurance programs.

http://www.thewhir.com/marke****ch/loc050602.cfm