A Maryland-based company is set to integrate advanced AI-driven sustainment solutions into the U.S. combat aircraft fleet. For this, Lockheed Martin has partnered with MANTECH, which provides mission-focused technology solutions and services for U.S. defense, intelligence and federal civilian agencies.
The aim is to deliver real-time aircraft performance monitoring, predictive maintenance, optimized logistics support and improved mission availability across legacy and next-generation platforms, while adhering to the highest standards of security.
Capable of creating resilient sustainment ecosystems
“This collaboration between Lockheed Martin and MANTECH will generate a unified team of strengths, capable of creating resilient sustainment ecosystems that can be projected to America and its allies around the world,” said Nicholas Smythe, vice president, Business Development for Sustainment at Lockheed Martin.
“This partnership delivers the real-time performance needed to maximize the readiness and operational lifespan of the U.S. combat aircraft fleet,” said MANTECH Defense Sector President David Hathaway.
The recent partnership leverages Lockheed Martin’s AI Factory and MANTECH’s extensive experience in defense analytics, enterprise modernization and secure mission integration to accelerate reliability, readiness and operational efficiency across forces.
Mission essential technology
AI has now emerged as mission essential technology as 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.
Lockheed claims that 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.
MANTECH designs and engineers secure systems tailored to critical missions in defense, aerospace, intelligence, and beyond, integrating cutting-edge technology with practical solutions. Whether developing secure websites, analyzing network intrusions, recovering vital data, or planning disaster recovery strategies, the company combine innovation with meticulous attention to detail.
MANTECH and Lockheed have joined hands to boost effectiveness of US combat aircraft fleet using AI driven sustainment solutions. MANTECH’s approach to Digital Transformation provides a holistic view of clients’ business processes to identify efficiencies through process modernization and using digital technology to help our clients bring “Digital to the Mission.”
The Digital Transformation practice supports hybrid, multi-cloud mission-centric IT solutions, software development, application modernization, and cloud migration services using our state-of-the-art software factory.
Underpinning all these offerings is the company’s robust and proven Zero Trust framework, assuring the highest levels of data protection and integrity across systems and software services, according to MANTECH.