Distribution Systems
Enabling Secure, Accurate and Safe Delivery of Mail and Material
Lockheed Martin provides integrated mail, document and baggage handling solutions. The goal: To help move, process, distribute and deliver mail, material and cargo within and between airports, mailrooms, distribution and processing centers - as well as to your doorstep.
It takes world-class technology and disciplined performance to process and deliver more than 200 billion pieces of mail a year, and Lockheed Martin helps the U.S. Postal Service move the mail swiftly, safely, securely and efficiently.
We apply those same skills to improve the speed, safety, security and efficiency of baggage and cargo handling systems at airports. These are complex challenges that require strategic thinking with a genuine passion for invention - applying technology with practical discipline.
Lockheed Martin specializes in delivering single-source, innovative end-to-end solutions for:
Automation / Sortation
As one of the world's Top 10 leading integrators of mail automation and material handling management systems, Lockheed Martin teams with postal providers such as the U.S. Postal Service and Britain's Royal Mail, direct-mail merchandisers and federal agencies with high-volume mail processing needs.
Lockheed Martin's family of sophisticated and dependable automated sorting, sequencing and processing systems are designed to meet customer needs for incoming or outgoing mail processing and material handling applications. As a lead systems integrator working on complex engineering projects for government customers, Lockheed Martin has one of the mail industry's largest installed base of mail automation equipment with the U.S. Postal Service.
We specialize in delivering single-source, turnkey solutions for:
- Mail operations
- Mailroom modernization
- Document management
- Automated order fulfillment and distribution, and
- Material handling control system integration
Baggage Handling
In today's global environment, baggage handling systems must perform to the traveling public's expectations - as well as meet safety and security requirements.
Lockheed Martin's baggage handling business draws on the strength of the corporation's proven excellence in aerospace technology, system integration, and material handling automation to carry airport or airline baggage handling projects from conception through startup.
In the United States, Lockheed Martin serves as a prime contractor for a variety of Federal Aviation Administration and Transportation Security Administration projects nationwide that relate directly to baggage and passenger security at airports.
Lockheed Martin industry-approved systems, components and products include:
- Transport and meter-belt conveyors
- Flat-plate or slope-plate carousels
- Customs inspection tables
- >Vertical or pusher sortation devices
- Low-cost belt conveyors
Recognition / Identification
A pioneer in developing highly advanced imaging and recognition systems for bar coded, machine printed or hand-addressed mail, labels and manifests, Lockheed Martin's highly sophisticated imaging, identification and recognition technology solutions enable the accurate and reliable delivery and integration of image information.
The company's industry-leading bar code and optical character recognition (BCR and OCR) technology is used worldwide to achieve the best read rates for its customers. Complete and accurate address assignment is achieved by using the most advanced directory lookup technology available in the mailing industry. Highly flexible and adaptable, this technology can be applied for both incoming and outgoing sorting operations, sequencing, delivery point processing, label recognition and order fulfillment. The core technology can be applied to letters, flats and parcels.
Recognition systems expertise includes:
- Bar code recognition
- Optical character recognition
- Integrated or distributed video coding
- Control and enterprise resource and workload planning
- High-speed, high quality image capture
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Did You Know Lockheed Martin . . .
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- helps the U.S. Postal Service process more than 200 billion pieces of mail annually?
- provides automation systems that enable more than 797,000 U.S. postal workers to deliver mail to 134 million addresses throughout our nation?
- will deploy the next generation automated package processing systems at more than 70 mail processing centers nationwide?
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- is the largest U.S.-based material handling systems company?
- address interpretation equipment automatically processes more than 37 million letters nightly for Royal Mail at 64 mail centers across the UK?
- has the largest concentration of software expertise in any one corporation, anywhere?
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