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Article: Lockheed Martin Federal Systems Team Awarded Census Data Capture System 2000 Contract
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- March 24, 1997
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GAITHERSBURG, Md., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin Federal Systems in Gaithersburg, a business unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT), announced today that it has been awarded a contract by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau to support the Year 2000 Decennial Census. The initial value of the Data Capture System contract is valued at approximately $49 million.
Under the four-year contract, Lockheed Martin and its teammates, Electronic Data Systems and CACI, will design, integrate, install and support a document imaging system that will digitally capture information from respondent Census forms. This system will reduce the cost of data ...