Lockheed Martin today announced Peter M. Cuviello as vice president, Information Infrastructure, for Lockheed Martin Mission Systems. Cuviello will lead Mission Systems' focus on information management and integrated solutions for network centric warfare.

Commenting on the announcement, Terry Drabant, president, Lockheed Martin Mission Systems, said, "Pete Cuviello will be invaluable in guiding Lockheed Martin information management activities to support joint, interagency and multi-national forces. His knowledge of using information for warfighting superiority will help focus our efforts to deliver integrated solutions to the battlefield."

Cuviello recently retired from the U.S. Army where he served as chief information officer and Deputy Chief of Staff, Director of Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (G6). As Army CIO and G6 for three years, Cuviello led major changes in Army policy, culture and information infrastructure, including the communications, computers, networks, architecture and security domains. Cuviello launched the Army Knowledge Online service, an enterprise-wide portal for access to information and data, for more than one million users. The portal set the standard for similar efforts by other services.

Cuviello retired from the Army as a Lieutenant General.

Lockheed Martin Mission Systems is the Corporation's lead enterprise for Information Superiority and is a business unit of the Corporation's recently established Integrated Systems and Solutions (IS&S) business area. IS&S leads the Corporation's systems engineering and integration activities for high- value network centric information and intelligence systems across Space, Aeronautics, Electronics and Information Technology platforms.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 125,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation reported 2002 sales of $26.6 billion.

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SOURCE: Lockheed Martin Mission Systems