Lockheed to Upgrade Web Filing for IRS
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Lockheed Martin of Bethesda has won a four-year, $33 million contract to upgrade an Internal Revenue Service program that helps professional tax preparers and others conduct business with the agency over the Internet.
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OCTOBER 07, 2004  - Looking to penetrate further into the software infrastructure market, applications vendor SAP AG is rolling out a new set of Java and business intelligence enhancements to its NetWeaver middleware and integration stack.
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WASHINGTON -- Defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. on Thursday said profits rose 10 percent in the fourth quarter, as gains in its space, information technology and electronic systems units made up for a dip in sales of fighter jets.
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(InfoWorld) - Two U.S. government agencies are embracing performance-engineering processes and application testing throughout the development cycle as a way to avoid costly fixes after deployment, officials there said Wednesday. Representatives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said they've deployed performance-engineering software in recent years, and it has helped cut down on problems after development. "If you catch an error in development, the cost is the cost," said John Chambliss, manager of the IRS WAN management team. "Once you get to [operations and maintenance], it's about 100 times the cost." For the past two years, the IRS has used application performance management software from Opnet Technologies in Maryland to fix problems in the development of its portals that allow Web-based tax filings, Chambliss said at Opnet's annual conference in Washington, D.C. If electronic filing doesn't work, the IRS has major problems, he said. The IRS uses Opnet's software on in-house development and also encourages outside developers to use it, Chambliss said. The IRS has run into several IT problems in recent years. In 2006, the agency paid out more than $381 million in improper tax returns because of problems with a new Web-based version of software that detected fraudulent returns. Carolyn Aragon, enterprise operations center manager for the Forest Service, said her agency has been using Opnet application performance management software for about eight months. The agency has used the software to help with the development of two applications, including one that allows vendors to create invoices for firefighting services, she said. Chambliss and Aragon, along with representatives of Opnet and three private customers, participated in a forum on successful implementations of application performance management software. One of the major advantages of application performance management is testing how changes to software will affect how they run, added Peco Karayanev, senior systems engineer at National Instruments, an engineering design testing vendor. Application performance management helps the company roll out changes "without completely destroying the service we're providing customers," he said. It's sometimes difficult to get developers to buy into application management, added Farid Dana, director of Dell's global operations for telecommunication networks. "You don't tell them it's [application management]," he said. "You tell them its application enhancement. Then, they're receptive." While the forum participants sung the praises of application performance management, many organizations are still looking at the technology. "We're at that stage in the adoption curve where it's getting out there," said Alain Cohen, Opnet's president and CTO. In many cases, an organization needs to run into serious problems with application development before they see a need, Chambliss said. Cohen agreed. One large company used "war rooms" during their application development, he said. Instead of a typical war room, where an organization would map out a strategy, this company's war rooms were places where employees would argue about who's to blame for an application's failure, he said. Application performance management can pinpoint problems in development and "the 'blamestorming' can stop," he said. "Some organizations need to get burned before they say, 'Okay, maybe we need to go back and call Opnet.'"
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U.S. antitrust authorities on Tuesday approved the planned merger of the government rocket launch units of Lockheed Martin Corp.  and Boeing Co.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. said Monday that its maritime systems and sensors unit received contracts worth $625 million to develop radar systems for an international air defense program that aims to replace the Patriot and Hawk missile systems.
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AT&T Government Solutions of Vienna has received a $13 million task order from the U.S. Agency for International Development to upgrade the agency's Web systems.
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Defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. on Monday said it will record a fourth-quarter charge of $110 million, or 25 cents per share, related to a district court ruling concerning a dispute with the department of energy and the state of Idaho.
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AJAX Toolkit Framework upgrade to help consolidate frameworks and extend supported browsers.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. said yesterday it will take a $110 million charge in the fourth quarter after losing a six-year court battle over a failed contract with the Energy Department for cleanup of a radioactive-waste dump in Idaho.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- United Defense Industries Inc. (UDI) said the value of a vehicles upgrade contract for the Taiwanese military has increased to $112.2 million.
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The U.S. Postal Service is about to get a $35 million Web-based human resources application makeover, based on the mySAP Business Suite from applications vendor SAP AG.
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SAP AG announced two updates to the Master Data Management (MDM) component of its NetWeaver integration and application platform on Tuesday. The updates, which will appear by the end of the year, are designed to make it easier to synchronize data between different systems. Two other new NetWeaver enhancements, faster searching of corporate data and more robust handling of errors in Java applications, will only appear in the next release of NetWeaver, planned for 2005, the company said at the SAP TechEd conference in San Diego.
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Lockheed Martin Corp , the  world's largest defense contractor, said on Tuesday  third-quarter profit rose 22 percent, helped by higher sales of  its jet fighters and electronic warfare systems.
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SYRACUSE, NY -- Lockheed Martin announced Monday that its Maritime Systems &amp; Sensors unit has received contracts worth $625 million for radar development.
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No. 1 U.S. defense contractor Lockheed  Martin Corp. LMT.N reported a 41 percent rise in quarterly  profit on Tuesday, beating Wall Street forecasts, as demand  soared for its combat aircraft and information technology  services.
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Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier functionality.  Compiere released its newest Production Release 2.5.1f !  The emphasis of this release was the improved Server infrastructure.  You can now monitor the (accounting, request, workflow, alert) processors and their logs from the web. The default URL is http://localhost/compiereMonitor and requires to log on with a user id with System Administrator role.  New are also Alerts - you define the situation you want to be alerted of and Compiere will send an email with details, if the conditions are met.  Document Value based Workflows allow you to start a workflow automatically, if a certain condition is met in any Entity in the system. You can use this for example to do a credit check for new Business Partners or when the address was changed.  Together with the Document Process Workflows and Alerts, you can now model all Business Processes.  Due to Server Infrastructure changes, you need to - Delete the jboss sub-directory Before upgrading (extracting the zip/gz) - After upgrading, you need to define Accounting and Request Processors for your clients. They are created automatically if you create a new client, but not for existing ones.  If you have a translated system, you should run "Synchronize Terminology" after migration or after importing the translation.   The Toronto training was quickly fully booked.  Note that the next intensive training "from the source" is December 6-10 in Miami, FL ... and book early if you want to guarantee your seat.  You can find the latest release here:  https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=29057