Lockheed goes civilian: integrator's commitment questioned

Lockheed Integrated Solutions Co is making inroads into the civilian government integration market. The integrator has landed a $153 million office automation contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs for office automation and a $40 million pact with the Department of Health and Human Services' National Caner Institute. These are the first large civilian contracts since it decided to focus on such markets. Analysts are skeptical about parent company Lockheed Corp's decision to move Lockheed Integrated Solutions' headquarters from Fairfax, VA, to Santa Clara, CA, because the new headquarters are far from Washington D.C. Lockheed plans to reopen a Washington area office should the Fairfax move prove to be a mistake. The contract with the National Cancer Institute involves supercomputer integration of a Cray Research Y-MP with high-speed networking, parallel processor and graphics workstations.