Lockheed Martin and Homeland Security, USA

Lockheed Martin homeland security and homeland defense capabilities continue to grow to meet ever changing security threats in the 21st century.

Lockheed Martin brings transformational technology, ideas, and processes to homeland security and homeland defense. In the United States, Lockheed Martin is helping to secure vital assets including transportation systems, and the company provides critical services such as biometrics, fingerprint identification, and emergency services.

In the United States, Lockheed Martin supports the Department of Homeland Security and its constituent agencies such as the U.S. Coast Guard and Transportation Security Administration.

Lockheed Martin has provided the technology that guards borders, integrates threat information, protects critical infrastructures, and provides maritime surveillance. Lockheed Martin has worked with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration on airport security programs including the enhancement of passenger checkpoints and the training of 55,000 baggage and passenger screeners at all of America’s commercial airports.

Lockheed Martin also works with government customers in the area of Cyber Security to safeguard electronic systems that are susceptible to viruses, hacking, and identity and information theft.

Biometrics is a powerful tool in the fight against crime and terrorism. Lockheed Martin plays a role in several biometric technology-based programs including the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), a database of millions of fingerprints and corresponding criminal histories. As a result of this system, matching a fingerprint with a criminal suspect now takes only hours, not days. Earlier this year the company received a contract to support the FBI with the modernization of its biometrics system; the Next Generation Identification System will expand fingerprint capacity and will include advanced capabilities and additional modalities, such as iris and facial recognition.

One key port security effort that uses biometrics is the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program. This program provides biometric identification cards for port workers. The Lockheed Martin-led team deployed enrollment centers to 149 port locations and mobile enrollments to larger port employers, and is in the process of enrolling and credentialing up to an estimated 1.2 million port workers.

Lockheed Martin is the industry leader in RFID [Radio-Frequency Identification] solutions. Lockheed Martin has deployed systems that track more than 35,000 containers daily for the U.S. military. Additionally, Lockheed Martin is the lead systems integrator on Verified Identity Pass, Inc's CLEAR Registered Traveler Program. Lockheed Martin is responsible for the biometric systems that enable travelers who have been vetted and approved through a government screening process to enjoy expedited access through standard airport security procedures – especially useful to the business or frequent traveler.

Lockheed Martin opened in 2007 the Biometric Experimentation and Advanced Concepts Center in White Hall, West Virginia, to develop new solutions and applications in the field of biometrics. Research and Development is critical to realizing this advanced technology's full potential.

Lockheed Martin also recently established its Center for Cyber Security Innovation. The purpose is to develop advanced techniques and technologies for real-time protection and attack management for customer networks across a diverse set of civilian, defense and intelligence agencies.

Lockheed Martin is a leading designer and manufacturer of communications, command and control systems, radar, navigation/surveillance systems and other software-intensive products that are necessary for building fully-integrated and fully-networked systems.

A prime example of one such networked system, the U.S. Coast Guard’s Integrated Deepwater Program, leverages our expertise in similar systems for the Department of Defense. Deepwater will upgrade U.S. Coast Guard ships, aircraft, logistics and command and control.

With our legacy systems, such as the P-3 Airborne Early Warning and Control Aircraft and Tethered Aerostat Surveillance Systems, Lockheed Martin delivers systems that can monitor land and sea borders from the high ground.

Tethered Aerostats provide continuous real-time radar surveillance and defense for both air and surface threats. The Customs and Border Protection P-3 aircraft has long been an effective tool against illegal narcotics trafficking and since the September 11, 2001 attacks has been providing surveillance support for U.S. Homeland Security efforts. This system is ideally suited for surveillance over vast stretches of coastline, open water and terrain.

Lockheed Martin can adapt its technologies to meet new challenges. Lockheed Martin applies multi-sensor technology through our Swimmer Intruder Detection System which automatically detects, classifies and tracks all types of swimmer intruders. The mail handling equipment, we produce for the U.S. Postal Service has been modified to detect biological pathogens in the mail stream and alert authorities.

Overall, Lockheed Martin, with 140,000 employees, is a trusted partner with governments and industry worldwide in homeland security, national defense, and government systems and information technology.