Sponsor: Lockheed Martin

Your Mission is Our Mission

What can customers and partners expect when they work with Lockheed Martin?

The answer begins with a simple statement embodying Lockheed Martin's approach to serving our customers and organizing international industry teams -- we never forget the importance of what we're doing or who we're doing it for. We know that our customers are counting on Lockheed Martin to help them carry out their nations' most important missions -- defining moments when the stakes could not be higher and when extraordinary reliability is required. In short, we make our customers' missions our own missions.

Most of the work we do for our customers involves highly complex challenges requiring highly integrated solutions. This demands an ability to see the big picture, to understand the full scope of the challenge, to combine specific technologies into larger systems and to successfully lead or participate as a member of international industry teams. Such whole-system thinking and action are characteristic of Lockheed Martin's senior leadership and dedicated employees. Once we understand the full extent of the challenge, we meet it with a genuine spirit of invention, developing original solutions that not only redefine what is possible but that apply advanced technology with practical discipline to do exactly what our customers expect.

Just as we make our customers' missions our own missions, we measure our success according to our customers' success. Did we deliver the disciplined performance in our products and services that our customers required to meet their defining moments? Being able to answer that question positively is what has helped make Lockheed Martin a trusted and valued partner -- for our government customers as well as for our many industry partners in Taiwan, the Asia-Pacific region, and around the world.

Of our total 130,000 employees, approximately 50,000 are scientists and engineers, including 30,000 software and systems engineers -- more software engineers than Microsoft employs. We have worked diligently to earn the internationally recognized Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) highest certifications for software engineering quality. We have more business units at SEI Level 5, the highest possible ranking, than any other corporation in the world. We transmit more bits of data daily than all U.S. cable companies combined, and do so in a highly secure environment.

Internationally, Lockheed Martin has hundreds of partnerships with advanced technology companies in more than 30 countries. Lockheed Martin's Asia-Pacific Business Development office is in Taipei, as is the Taiwan Business Development office and the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Service Taiwan (LMAST) office, a newly established company to support a broad range of products currently operated by the Taiwanese military and civil government agencies to maintain a strong defense and a modern infrastructure.

These products include the Po-Sheng advanced military command and control system, the F-16A/B Block 20 Falcon fighter aircraft and its Mission Support System, the C-130H Hercules military transport aircraft, the GD-52 Fire Control Radar in the Indigenous Defense Fighter, the AN/APS-145 Search Radar in the E-2T aircraft, the long-range GE-592 Early Warning ground radar, the Pathfinder and Sharpshooter pods for the F-16, the ADAR-M (Air Defense Array radar-Mobile) for the indigenous "Tien Kung" anti-air defense system, the PAC-2 GEM missiles for the Modified Air Defense System, the LAADS (Low Altitude Air Defense Systems) for Taiwan's army, the Chaparral ground-to-air missile fire units, the NEXRAD (Next generation Weather radar) for air traffic control, and the air traffic control system for Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration.

Newly delivered products include the PSTAR (Portable Search and Target Acquisition Radar) to support the Avenger and Dual-mounted Stinger air defense systems, the GETS-1000 (General-purpose Electronic Test Set) for depot maintenance of air defense missile systems, the MARF (Maintenance and Repair Facility) for the Chaparral missiles, the CASS (Consolidation Automated System Support) units for depot support of navy avionics equipment, and new FPS-117 fixed and TPS-117 mobile early warning solid-state 3D radars.

We are honored to be of service to Taiwan's most important national missions and look forward to many more years of partnership.