Lockheed Martin has been selected to provide information technology services to the Social Security Administration (SSA) under the agency's Electronic Disability (eDib) Initiative National Scanning Project. These services are covered under a blanket purchasing agreement that will be performed over five years and has a potential value of $124 million.

Lockheed Martin will provide services that include scanning paper medical and non-medical records and creating digital images for transmission. The images are sent to an electronic folder that is part of the SSA's Document Management Architecture.

In addition to performing management operations near SSA headquarters in Baltimore, Md., Lockheed Martin will establish and staff three scanning centers to support the SSA offices in the 50 states and the US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Guam.

Linda Gooden, president of Lockheed Martin Information Technology, said, "Lockheed Martin is proud of its past and current partnerships with the Social Security Administration, in which we have helped develop information technology solutions and maintain systems that have served the American public so well. We are delighted to deliver new capabilities to SSA that will enhance its electronic disability process."

Affiliated Computer Services has partnered with Lockheed Martin as a major subcontractor.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 130,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation reported 2004 sales of $35.5 billion.

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SOURCE: Lockheed Martin