Since the first log was hollowed out and and pushed into water, man has struggled to perfect the design of floating vessels. For generations, a vessel that combined high speeds and excellent stability was the Holy Grail of ship designers.

Enter the Sea SLICE advanced hullform demonstrator ship. Designed by Lockheed Martin Marine Systems, the high speed Sea SLICE vessel was recently built and tested and it successfully proved that a single ship could exhibit compact size, high speed with superior seakeeping ability in rough waters, low wake wash and mission modularity.

Lockheed Martin continues to invent and improve state-of-the-art ship technologies that allow smaller vessels to travel freely in the open ocean while retaining the inherent stability in high sea states of a much larger ship.

One such advanced marine platform design that is a specialty of Lockheed Martin is called the Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull or SWATH ship. In November 2001, the R/V KILO MOANA (AGOR 26) SWATH Oceanographic Research Ship was launched by Lockheed Martin and continues a tradition of business and technology innovation. Lockheed Martin has been a worldwide leader in the development of transformational ships since the design and construction of the Sea Shadow SWATH stealth ship in the 1980s, which integrated fighter jet and ship advanced hullform technologies.

Lockheed Martin Marine Systems is also the center of excellence for Ship Automation. By multiplying the talents of several Lockheed Martin businesses and their employees along with the expertise of niche commercial companies, we are now able to provide a world class system, called the Total Ship Automation System, for the shipbuilding market.

As an overarching capability, we provide Ship Integration management and technical leadership for our Advanced Marine Platforms. But we also work with our industrial partners to perform total Ship Integration services and Mission Package subsystem integration.

The combination of business and technology leadership in Advanced Marine Platforms, Ship Automation and Ship Integration make Lockheed Martin Marine Systems the preferred solution for emerging military requirements and commercial marine markets worldwide.