Insider Brief
- Lockheed Martin and Meta are collaborating to integrate Meta’s Llama large language model (LLM) into Lockheed Martin’s AI Factory, aiming to streamline code generation, data analysis, and business processes for national security applications.
- Lockheed Martin’s LMText Navigator, a Generative AI tool leveraging Llama, is already enhancing data processing capabilities for over 40,000 employees, helping accelerate development for national security projects.
- The partnership emphasizes responsible, ethical AI use, aligning with the Department of Defense’s AI Ethics principles and positioning the U.S. as a leader in setting open-source standards in AI.
PRESS RELEASE — Lockheed Martin and Meta are collaborating to apply the power of artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLM) for national security applications. The initiative is incorporating Meta’s Llama LLM into Lockheed Martin’s AI Factory to more efficiently generate code, analyze data and enhance business processes.
Among the initial use cases, AI Factory engineers incorporated Llama into Lockheed Martin’s LMText Navigator, a generative AI (GenAI) tool that can process large quantities of data from a variety of sources securely and on premises. Aggregating, processing and making sense of data from across the enterprise accelerates development and production of capabilities for our national security customers. More than 40,000 Lockheed Martin employees in the United States are already using the capability.
“Lockheed Martin is an ideal partner to scale use of LLMs like Llama for national security purposes because of our deep development and production expertise, as well as our longstanding role helping national security customers integrate missions across every domain.”
— Dr. Steven H. Walker, Lockheed Martin Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Expert perspectives
“Lockheed Martin is an ideal partner to scale use of LLMs like Llama for national security purposes because of our deep development and production expertise, as well as our longstanding role helping national security customers integrate missions across every domain,” said Dr. Steven H. Walker, Lockheed Martin vice president and chief technology officer. “Our heritage of engineering rigor and integrating artificial intelligence into our mission solutions has prepared us to tackle the complex challenges, ensuring that we can maintain the highest standards of security, reliability and performance.”
“These kinds of responsible and ethical uses of open-source AI models like Llama will not only support the prosperity and security of the United States, but they will also help establish U.S. open-source standards in the global race for AI leadership,” said Nick Clegg, Meta president, Global Affairs.
Background
Lockheed Martin aligns AI initiatives with the Defense Department’s five AI Ethics principles: Responsible, Equitable, Traceable, Reliable, and Governable, ensuring that all projects throughout the enterprise adhere to these core tenets. To foster a deep understanding of AI ethics across the corporation, Lockheed Martin has developed and implemented an internal AI ethics training program to equip employees with an understanding of the capabilities and limitations of AI so they can apply the technology in a responsible way.
The complexity of the global security environment is evolving rapidly, so Lockheed Martin is providing 21st Century Security® solutions through collaboration with national security customers, technology and telecommunications companies, and U.S. allies and strategic partners around the world.
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