Through its relationship with Lockheed Martin, Exostar is offering the award-winning I-GUIDES™ IUID compliancy solution that improves asset visibility and interoperability between suppliers, contractors and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). In 2005, the DoD mandated marking and registration of IUID using a two-dimensional (2D) matrix for many assets, components and parts.

The new service is a natural extension of Exostar’s mission to help the aerospace and defense supply network comply with unique business process requirements in the most cost effective and efficient ways possible. With Lockheed Martin’s I-GUIDES solution, Exostar’s customers gain a highly flexible hosted software application that streamlines their ability to meet the DoD requirements for IUID across government and industry asset management systems.

By subscribing to the I-GUIDES service, suppliers can easily assign, verify and transmit IUID assignments mandated by the DoD, with guaranteed uniqueness and accuracy. Because the service is available in an on-demand delivery model, suppliers can tap the solution immediately to speed time-to-compliance with minimal ongoing cost of ownership. Suppliers choose the data input options – by automated batch uploads or manual assignments – and the service enables the final transmission to the DoD’s UID Registry or the prime contractor or partner.