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Lockheed Martin Enhances Farnborough-Based Swift Laboratory

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July 17, 2008

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Upgrades Focused on Nation Security, Joint Operations and Fighter Aircraft
Simulators

FARNBOROUGH, England, July 16 /PRNewswire/ — FARNBOROUGH AIR SHOW —
Lockheed Martin UK (NYSE: LMT) unveiled an enhanced Swift Laboratory during
this year’s Farnborough Air Show. The Swift, located in the Farnborough
Aerospace Centre, is an innovative and interactive research and development
laboratory. Recent upgrades include new assets focused on national
security, network-enable operations and fighter aircraft simulators.

“Our UK laboratory environment is one of the most advanced in the
country for prototyping, experimenting, modeling, simulating and
visualizing net- enabled, effects-based capabilities,” said Richard
Williams, Swift Lab Director. “At Swift, our focus is on partnering with
our civilian government, military and industry customers to meet their
challenges.”

Swift continues to evolve in the sophistication of its in-depth
simulations. Real systems using real data can be analysed using actual
communications networks to both test and stress systems and operations.
Environments also can be established for work in both classified and
unclassified environments.

“Swift provides a rapidly adaptable setting to evaluate new customer
operations and missions,” Randy Peterson, Director, Mission Operations,
said.

“Our goal is to provide increasing levels of value added services to
our UK civil government and military customers, as well as extending our
reach as a portal to laboratories in the U.S.”

To demonstrate Swift’s capabilities during the show, specific scenarios
were run that featured national security and joint operations themes. The
Swift environment demonstrates how the seamless integration of real-time
data, intelligence and records can be used to solve a customer problem or
result in specific actions that can be taken or executed in a crisis.

Swift opened in June, 2006 to provide a state-of-the-art reconfigurable
laboratory in the UK. Aimed at enhancing a customer’s mission performance,
the Swift is a proven, invaluable resource for Lockheed Martin UK.

Lockheed Martin UK, a unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation, is a leader
in systems integration working on major programmes spanning the aerospace,
defence and civil sectors. Lockheed Martin works with more than 100
business partners and employs over 1700 people at 12 sites across the UK.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 140,000
people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design,
development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced
technology systems, products and services. The Corporation reported 2007
sales of $41.9 billion.

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