Secure cloud, AI/ML and 5G.MIL® solutions will
unlock next-generation national security
solutions
BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 16,
2022 /PRNewswire/ --
The Big Picture
Lockheed Martin and Microsoft today announced a landmark
expansion of their strategic relationship to help power the next
generation of technology for the Department of Defense (DOD).
The game-changing agreement will span four critical areas for
the DOD:
- Classified Cloud Innovations: Microsoft's latest secure
framework will make Lockheed Martin the first non-government entity
to independently operate inside the Microsoft Azure Government
Secret cloud ushering in a new era of cloud opportunities for
industry.
- Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML), Modeling
and Simulation Capabilities: Lockheed Martin and Microsoft have
entered a two-year collaborative research and development (R&D)
program that will advance AI/ML and modeling and simulation
capabilities for the DOD.
- 5G.MIL® Programs: The R&D agreement also
expands the companies' existing collaboration to deliver advanced
networking and secure 5G capabilities at the tactical edge.
- Digital Transformation: Microsoft Azure will power
Lockheed Martin's digital transformation journey, accelerating
enterprise-wide productivity gains to deliver innovation at scale,
enhance choice and flexibility, and create the next generation of
defense technologies.
Strategic Perspectives
Yvonne Hodge, senior vice
president, Enterprise Business and Digital Transformation, and
chief information officer, Lockheed Martin:
"Through this historic agreement, Lockheed Martin and
Microsoft are blazing a new path in classified cloud, artificial
intelligence, and 5G.MIL® capabilities for the
Department of Defense. We are creating faster, safer, and more
affordable 21st Century Security solutions that infuse immersive
experiences and other advanced commercial technologies into the
most capable defense systems. We are confident this unrivaled
combination of capabilities will help keep our customers ahead of
new threats and challenges."
Jason Zander, executive vice
president, Strategic Missions and Technologies, Microsoft:
"Our national security leaders need an unassailable
information advantage, which is why we're bringing the power of the
hyperscale cloud to accelerate their national security missions. In
partnership with Lockheed Martin, we're demonstrating how the
defense industrial base can bring classified data into the cloud
securely while bringing advanced 5G connectivity, critical data
processing and analysis, and immersive experiences to the edge to
support decision- making where it's needed, when it's needed.
Lockheed Martin is a valued partner in this effort, and we'll
continue to innovate and explore the art of the possible to support
national security."
Additional Background
Classified Cloud Innovations
Lockheed Martin is the first defense industrial base member to
use Microsoft's newest National Industrial Security Program (NISP)
framework for air-gapped clouds after a year-long pilot. Work on
developing the classified and unclassified cloud environments is
already underway, with expectations for the project to be
operational in 2023.
Microsoft's first-of-its-kind technology will allow Lockheed
Martin to dynamically scale IT demands under authorized guidance
and directly operate mission workloads inside Azure Government
Secret, including highly restricted special programs.
This allows Lockheed Martin to:
- Modernize its legacy on-premises classified systems to
owned-and-operated Azure Government Secret cloud tenants
- Bolster cybersecurity reporting and compliance monitoring to
near real-time.
- Quickly create authorized mission workloads
- Improve enterprise IT and research and development
capabilities
- Expand corporate efficiencies
- Autonomously host enterprise cloud management, centralized
collaboration, and
- Provide governance at scale.
AI/ML, Modeling and Simulation Capabilities
Through this agreement, Lockheed Martin will partner with
Microsoft to build on Microsoft's advanced gaming, exercising,
modeling and simulation (GEMS) and emulation solutions to bring
military planning and coordination through immersive environments.
Using GEMS technology, Lockheed Martin and its customers can test
military platforms and technologies that power joint all-domain
operations on a digital platform. Such capabilities have the
potential to cut costs for the DOD and minimize risk to service
members by providing a digital alternative for some military
exercises.
5G.MIL Programs
Using Microsoft Azure solutions and Lockheed Martin's 5G.MIL
technologies, the companies will continue to develop secure,
resilient communication systems that are interoperable with and
seamlessly link to existing DOD networks. Key developments include
a tactical 5G core, management and orchestration of applications
and networks at scale and cloud-native security. The companies will
also advance space domain connectivity for austere,
infrastructure-light environments.
Advancing Lockheed Martin's Digital Transformation
With Azure as a foundation, Lockheed Martin will advance its
business and digital transformation called 1LMX. By transforming
its end-to-end business processes and systems, Lockheed Martin is
creating a model-based enterprise with a fully integrated digital
thread throughout the design, build and sustain product life cycle.
1LMX is enhancing the company's speed, agility, insights and
competitiveness as it delivers the next generation of DOD systems.
As part of this transformation, Lockheed Martin will become a
multi-cloud environment in the unclassified space using Microsoft
Azure as the cloud provider.
Lockheed Martin's adoption of the Azure cloud will deliver
unparalleled protection across all devices, clouds, apps and
platforms. Microsoft's industry-leading cybersecurity leverages
massive signal depth and diversity of more than 24 trillion signals
per day, combined with cutting-edge AI/ML and a global team of
security experts.
What's Next?
Lockheed Martin and Microsoft will continue to develop each of
the four critical areas and demonstrate a series of progressively
more complex capabilities throughout 2023. The capabilities
unlocked by this collaboration will apply to a range of defense
applications across all domains: land, sea, air,
space and cyber.
About Lockheed Martin
Headquartered in
Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed
Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a global security and aerospace company that
employs approximately 114,000 people worldwide and is principally
engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture,
integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems,
products and services.
Please follow @LMNews on Twitter for the latest announcements
and news across the corporation.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT"
@microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an
intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to
empower every person and every organization on the planet to
achieve more.
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