Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) are transforming how humans and machines work together.

Lockheed Martin is a leading developer of AI/ML solutions for our customers and nation.

AI/ML is Mission Essential Technology

The complexity of the battlespace is ever-evolving. AI provides us with the ability to shift roles between nodes in-mission, dynamically adjusting to the ever-changing battlespace, even shifting software-defined capabilities. Between cross-domain synchronization (land, air, space, sea, cyber), network-of-networks communication, and regular software/model updates, AI is necessary to keep pace.

AI/ML is transforming our customer’s mission and our own business. Our customers have a need for AI-driven tools that increase decision speed & improve decision quality.

AI isn’t magic. It doesn’t solve all our problems, and we have plenty of challenges ahead of us in transitioning AI capabilities to our end-users. But, when problems are beyond human scale to comprehend based on volume of data, complexity, or urgency, AI can help illuminate solution opportunities.

Leading Provider of AI/ML Capabilities

Across Lockheed Martin, AI/ML is incorporated into hundreds of projects and programs for our customers, as well as integrated in internal initiatives to increase our own business operations efficiency.

Within the Corporation, the Lockheed Martin AI Center (LAIC) drives application of AI by lowering the barrier-to-entry through leading edge foundations & training, innovative research & prototype, and product-line integration.

Bringing LAIC AI/ML capabilities to the outside world:

Part of the LAIC’s innovation is through Astris AI, a subsidiary focused on enabling the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions across the U.S. defense industrial base and commercial industry sectors that have high assurance requirements.

Astris AI’s solutions are positioned to address the rapid pace of technological advancements, costs and scaling challenges that organizations face in developing reliable, high assurance AI solutions. The foundational tools available through Astris AI include Lockheed Martin’s proven AI Factory Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) and generative AI software platforms, built with the security and compliance required for entities operating in highly regulated environments.

Lockheed Martin is making significant investments in these technologies and are building relationships with innovative companies like RedHat, NVIDIA, and Microsoft.

Technologies Enabled by Advances in AI

Lockheed Martin is at the forefront of fusing AI/ML-enabled platforms to accelerate operational speed, maximize agility, and cut sustainment costs:

Situational Understanding

Automatically and accurately detect, identify, track and geolocate objects of interest by rapidly fusing data from multiple sensors (RF, IR, EO) to convert massive amounts of information into a clear situational picture, to identify anomalies and changes, and offer actionable intelligence.

Platform Operations

Enable platform operations like aircraft refueling, operational planning, managing supply chains and equipment maintenance and resiliency.

Advanced Decision Making

In Joint All-Domain Operations, better manage the complexity of information for our customers’ advanced decision making, providing them with a strategic advantage over their adversaries.

Ensuring Ethics in AI

Lockheed Martin has a long-standing commitment to the ethical use of technology, and is a proactive leader in the ethical development and use of AI/ML. The corporation founded its Artificial Intelligence Ethics Advisory Committee to ensure the development of explainable, robust, trustworthy AI models. Lockheed Martin infuses AI into our business and product lines by lowering the barrier-to-entry for AI adoption.

The LAIC facilitates AI adoption by providing access to robust enterprise tooling, numerous training programs, and a vibrant community of practice. These foundational elements promote AI development best practices and ensure AI developers across the enterprise align on robust processes that our customers can trust. The Lockheed Martin AI Factory also provides a repeatable process that enables traceability, reliability, and explainability to the AI development and deployment process, and enables model monitoring – ensuring models remain relevant and encourage continued trust with customers/end-users.

Our commitment to developing ethical and trusted AI through measured, repeatable, and transparent processes is guided by Department of Defense’s AI Ethics Principles.

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We see Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning as a game changer for developing new technology and capabilities. Our teams are made up of diverse employees from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds, working together to tackle complex challenges and push the boundaries of innovation.

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