LMTLockheed Martin Corporation

“All of this is within what we call the Lockheed Martin Artificial Intelligence Center. So we made a decision with our then really a chief engine here. We have another [indiscernible] today, but her predecessor when I first joined the company 5, 6 years ago, said, hey, I want to stand up a single AI center for all of Lockheed Martin instead of having each business do it or something like that and consolidate the GPUs, consolidate the infrastructure make sure that we have a totally wold system that can operate at the classified level and has no connection to the external Internet so that we don't have cyber and other risks in that regard.”

“there's only 2 dimensions to artificial intelligence adoption in Lockheed Martin. One is the in-house business systems, production system, ERP supply chain management, all those kind of in-house critical activities. We're applying artificial intelligence there, everything to the closing process, right, to contract and bid provisions to respond to our customers. Every place that you can imagine, AI could be helpful, defect management and discovery, those kinds of things in the factory supply chain breakdowns. Those kinds of things, we are using -- utilizing AI to make all those business processes better for us.”

“we are introducing AI into our products and services where it makes sense to do that. But under a rubric of of an ethical standard that is adopted from the Department of Defense's rubric. So we're introducing AI into target recognition into battle management, command and control, [indiscernible] as it's called things like that, places where you've got a lot of data. If you can fuse it, bring intelligence to it quickly and provide commanders and pilots options.”

“we have our own data sets. We don't use any data from outside the company or outside the customer that's provided to us. So we have this internalized AI center, but we utilize external models for it. So there's a range of AI models. Many of them are incredibly well known, and we have access to those on a token basis or otherwise that we run in our AI center on our own GPUs on our own infrastructure that's cyber secure and hacking secure.”

“we have excellent retention rates. It's about half of general industry as far as losing folks on a voluntary basis. We're at like 4-ish percent broad industries like 8% to 10% turnover. So we have pretty solid retention, but there are some places like AI data scientists and others where it's competitive, and we have compensation plans that we think can meet the moment on that and keep the key people we need to.”

“We've actually are working with the Air Force now at Edwards Air Force Base, which is a test pilot school. There within autonomous F-16 that's working tactics that will be more survivable where even a piloted aircraft when it's in a dogfight or has to do a really hard turn on a missile can take over and optimize that response in the fight, so to speak.”

“In the first quarter, we delivered the very first UH-60 MX, Black Hawk helicopter to the U.S. Army. The UH-60MX includes a fully integrated Matrix autonomy suite, enabling optionally piloted flight and supporting the Army's pursuit of open architecture, mission supported autonomy.”

“A key feature of our 21st Century security vision encompassing AI solutions for enterprise efficiency, digital threat integration, model-based engineering to accelerate our program time lines and a commitment to open systems architectures that allow us and our partners to rapidly integrate new technology from us or others and continuously enhance capabilities, thereby strengthening deterrence.”

“There's been a pretty significant investment over these last 5 or 6 years into that. And I actually think that we may have a best-in-breed AI center, at least in our industry. So we're not building basic artificial intelligence models. We're using others, but we're applying them to our internal business operations and to our product set.”

“Our new munitions acceleration center that we're building in Camden, Arkansas exemplifies this effort serving both as a production facility and a development hub for the next generation of defense talent that will use the latest in AI and robotics to do their jobs.”

“we've been working for years to expand it with some of the major tech companies and telecom companies out there like when we publicly stated these before, Verizon IBM, Microsoft, NVIDIA, et cetera.”

“We are also far down the road in converting the Black Hawk to both pilot optional and fully autonomous operations to capitalize on its range payload and survivability in contested environments.”

“The platform's combination of Stealth advanced sensors and AI-assisted targeting enables pilots to operate with decisive advantage.”