CHERRY HILL, N.J., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) selected six employees from its Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) to receive that unit's highest award for superior performance in management, technology leadership, inventiveness, or administrative support. Only about three percent of the unit's 180 employees receives the honor annually. An honoree must then wait five years to regain eligibility.

    Lockheed Martin ATL honored the following employees:

    Administrative Support
      -- Ana Hussey, Sewell, NJ: administrative aide, artificial intelligence
         laboratory.

    Technology Leadership
      -- Patrick Lardieri, Voorhees, NJ: manager, distributed processing
         laboratory - reconfigurable and adaptive computing technologies.
      -- Patrice Tremoulet, Moorestown, NJ: senior engineer, artificial
         intelligence laboratory - augmented cognition technologies.
      -- Janet Wedgwood, Cherry Hill, NJ: lead engineer, embedded processing
         laboratory - winning business in modeling and simulation
         technologies.
      -- Chuck Winters, Mt. Holly, NJ: senior engineer, advanced concepts
         laboratory - information assurance technologies.

    Inventiveness
      -- Marc Olivieri, Marlton, NJ: manager, embedded processing laboratory -
         communications technologies.

The Advanced Technology Laboratories will celebrate honors night at a black-tie dinner and dance with honorees and their companions on May 5, 2006, at the Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia, PA.

An applied research and development asset of Lockheed Martin Corporation, ATL combines a vast resource of domain expertise, concept application, and advanced computing savvy to create unique technology enablers for next- generation defense systems. Areas of development and application include solutions in autonomy, network-centric operations, cognitive computing, information exploitation, advanced signal processing, and embedded processing.

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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