Lockheed Martin scores VA PACS contracts

PACS vendor Lockheed Martin Western Development Laboratories MedicalImaging Systems appears to have a hammerlock on PACS contractsat hospitals operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs. TheHoffman Estates, IL, company last month announced that it hadwon three contracts worth a total of $4.6 million to install PACSat VA facilities.

Lockheed Martin has been a favorite of the VA since its earlierdays as Loral Medical Imaging Systems. Lockheed Martin is theprimary contractor on the Medical Diagnostic Imaging Support contract.The company also won $7.8 million in VA contracts last year.

Under last month's contracts, Lockheed Martin will installits Vantage medical image and information management systems atthree facilities. The projects involve:

** installing nine workstations at New Orleans VA Medical Center,a 470-bed hospital;

** connecting 14 VA hospitals in New York and New Jersey overa teleradiology wide area network; and

** installing seven workstations at Columbus VA Hospital inOhio.