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Distribution Technologies

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Enabling Secure, Accurate and Safe Delivery of Mail and Material 

Lockheed Martin provides integrated mail, document and critical material solutions. The goal: To help move, process, distribute and deliver the mail, material and cargo within and between mailrooms, distribution and processing centers - as well as to your doorstop.

It takes world-class technology and disciplined performance to process and deliver more than 200 billion pieces of mail each year, and Lockheed Martin helps the U.S. Postal Service move the mail swiftly, safely, securely and efficiently.

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, and federal agencies with high-volume mail processing and critical material needs.

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
  • Document management
  • Automated order fulfillment and distribution
  • Material handling control system integration, and
  • Business critical material management

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
  • Collection, analysis and arbitration of complex image solution sets

Did you know Lockheed Martin . . .

  • 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?
  • deployed the next generation automated package processing system at more than 70 mail processing centers nationwide?
  • 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, anyway?


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