How this small local firm plans to compete against Lockheed Martin

In one corner, with more than 3,000 employees locally, and established here in 1995: Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Orlando Mission Systems & Training unit.

In the other corner, with 280 employees companywide and founded in 1991: Engineering Support Personnel Inc.

Let's get ready to rumble.

Those two firms, both with offices in Orlando, will fight it out with seven other firms for pieces of a $1.7 billion U.S. Navy contract. The surprise is that every firm, except for Orlando-based Engineering Support…