Lockheed Martin announced that the company has completed the final set of deliveries for the population count within the stipulated time and budget with the help of a green technology called Decennial Response Integration System (DRIS).
On the DRIS program, Lockheed Martin (News - Alert) leads a team focused on delivering the latest technologies to develop and operate an information processing system for the United States’ 2010 Census.
Apart from providing telephone assistance to support data capture efforts, the Lockheed Martin-led DRIS team is responsible for the people, process, technology and infrastructure needed to receive, capture and standardize census data from U.S. residents. The team was able to process as many as 2.5 million forms every 24 hours during peak production by designing an advanced technology solution to accurately, securely and efficiently scan the forms.
“The foundation of how our government operates is based on the data we process from the census,’ said Julie Dunlap, director of Lockheed Martin’s Census Practice and program manager for the 2010 Census DRIS, in a press release. “We have to do it, we have to do it right, and we have to do it on time. The DRIS team delivered the data accurately and securely, on schedule and under budget.”
Apart from allocating more than $400 billion in federal funds to local, state and tribal governments, 2010 Census data are used to distribute Congressional seats to states. DRIS team, which included Lockheed Martin and its partner companies, consisted of nearly 15,000 employees working in one of three data capture centers or one of 11 call centers, the company stated.
In April 2010, the company announced that new green initiatives to reach its 140,000 employees, their families and communities. The orchestrated effort is rolling out in conjunction with National Environmental Education Week (EE Week), the largest organized environmental education event in the United States. EE Week organizes environmental education outreach nationwide to increase Earth Day’s impact. Lockheed Martin announced that it will celebrate EE Week and Earth Day.
Raju Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Raju’s articles, please visit his columnist page.Edited by
Jaclyn Allard
