Lockheed Martin selected 14 employees from its Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) to receive its NOVA Award for teamwork. The NOVA Award is the Corporation's highest recognition for individual or team achievement, and less than one-half of one percent of the Corporation's 135,000 employees worldwide receives the honor annually.

Lockheed Martin recognized the team for developing and successfully testing an extraordinarily novel computing technology. Extensive government testing validated the performance of the technology.

  Team members:
    *  Alexander Butler, Marlton, NJ
    *  John DeGood, Columbus, NJ
    *  Joseph Green, Gloucester, NJ
    *  William Matthew Hartley, Alexandria, VA
    *  Grant Hollis, Audubon, NJ
    *  Michael Junod, Bensalem, PA
    *  Aaron Marks, Dresher, PA
    *  Richard McClain, Turnersville, NJ
    *  Jason McFarland, Clementon, NJ
    *  Henry Mendenhall, Shamong, NJ
    *  Craig Moffitt, Oaklyn, NJ
    *  Patrick Muckelbauer, Moorestown, NJ
    *  Brian Sidharta, Cherry Hill, NJ
    *  Charles Winters, Mount Holly, NJ

Lockheed Martin Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer Robert J. Stevens will host the 12th annual NOVA Awards Oct. 27, 2006, at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC.

Team lead Patrick Muckelbauer will represent the team at the event.

This year's NOVA Awards mark the third consecutive year in which ATL employees have received the honor and brings to 22 the number of awards ATL employees have received since 1993 -- an impressive achievement from an employee population of 220.

There are four categories of award: exceptional service, leadership, teamwork, and technical excellence. The award trophy consists of a brilliant representation of the Lockheed Martin star logo bursting forth from a hand-polished, black-marble base.

ATL is Lockheed Martin's advanced-computing, applied research and development facility. It develops and transitions technologies in autonomy and artificial intelligence, network-centric operations, cognitive computing, information exploitation, and advanced signal processing for Lockheed Martin, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, military services, and service laboratories.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 135,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products, and services.

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SOURCE: Lockheed Martin