Lockheed Martin, a longtime enabler in harnessing artificial intelligence to boost defense and aerospace capabilities, is once again reshaping the future of AI-driven innovation. In a new collaboration, IBM‘s high-performing, enterprise-ready Granite large language models (LLMs) will be integrated into Lockheed Martin’s AI Factory tools, which are accessed by more than 10,000 Lockheed Martin developers and engineers.
Lockheed Martin’s AI Factory environment accelerates ideas to deployment, from months to mere weeks, seamlessly integrating commercial best practices, establishing end-to-end development pipelines, and implementing rigorous data governance to drive greater efficiency and resource optimization. IBM’s Granite LLMs will further empower Lockheed Martin’s workforce with cutting-edge code, language, advanced reasoning and guardrail capabilities to customize assistants and agents, enhance national security missions, and accelerate business transformation.
By leveraging this integration, Lockheed Martin and IBM aim to set new standards for innovation to help streamline mission-critical insights and enhance decision-making capabilities across defense and aerospace domains.
“To have the best AI capability available to our customers, we continue to invest and innovate in AI across our portfolio,” said Dr. Steven H. Walker, Lockheed Martin vice president and chief technology officer. “A critical pillar of the strategy is integrating the best capabilities available in the commercial world with our already demonstrated and deployed industry leading AI products and technology.”
“IBM is excited to work with Lockheed Martin to bring the power of our Granite large language models to their AI factory,” said Vanessa Hunt, technology general manager, U.S. federal market, IBM. “Collaborations like ours, built on a foundation of responsibility and open innovation, are critical to shaping a future where AI significantly contributes to defense without compromising security, capability, readiness or societal values.”
