Lockheed Martin’s beginnings were founded on innovation, performance and purpose. From pioneering a new industry at the dawn of aviation to leading the information technology revolution that transformed global security, government services and space exploration, we’re proud to have made an enduring contribution to history and we’re honored to do our part to shape the future. Lockheed Martin drives product innovation through a blend of model‑based digital engineering, rapid‑prototype additive manufacturing, AI‑enabled design analytics, and close partnerships with our customers, academia and agile tech‑start‑ups.
Resilient design is Lockheed Martin’s approach to circularizing product systems, retaining value by keeping materials in their highest utility throughout the product life cycle. Our resilient design approach focuses on improving processes and efficiencies, expanding the durability and lifecycle of our products, and integrating sustainable elements into our design, to benefit our customers, our business and the environment. By designing systems, components and assemblies to maximize material efficiency—such as renewable or recyclable materials, simplified part counts, and planning for remanufacture and recycling—we can reduce life cycle costs and meet increasingly stringent environmental and regulatory expectations of our programs.
A core working group was established to evaluate and define resilient elements, including circularity principles, and to create a resilient design baseline and framework that can be piloted and incorporated into key decision points during product design.
Lockheed Martin’s vice president of Engineering provides oversight for this goal, with the Engineering and Technology and Operations teams co-leading the day-to-day progress, supported by the Material Engineering team and Sustainability team.
Lockheed Martin has a longstanding commitment to the ethical use of technology and is committed to the principles of responsible AI development and use - responsible, equitable, traceable, reliable and governable. Integrating new projects within the AI Factory, our Machine Learning Operations platform, provides a secure end-to-end modular ecosystem to train, deploy, and sustain trusted Artificial Intelligence solutions for LM applications. Our Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and our Ethical Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence internal corporate policy together guide Lockheed Martin’s ethical development and use of AI.
Our Artificial Intelligence Ethics Advisory Committee ensures the development of explainable, transparent, robust and trustworthy AI models. The advisory committee, under the direction of the Artificial Intelligence Executive Steering Committee, includes representatives from all business areas and oversees AI design, development, deployment and internal use aligned with our adopted principles. We have infused AI into our business and product lines through our AI Factory, enhancing and advancing our work to meet our customers’ toughest challenges.
Both Lockheed Martin’s chief engineer and senior vice president of Engineering and Technology, and our senior vice president of Ethics and Enterprise Assurance review performance on a periodic basis and serve as the highest levels of leadership responsible for ethical use of AI. Progress toward this goal is led by our AI and Research Engineering teams, with oversight by our vice president of Corporate Research Engineering.
Lockheed Martin is committed to advancing rigorous safety and quality controls throughout design and manufacturing processes to ensure the use of our products and services does not pose uncontrolled or unacceptable risks to customers, employees, suppliers or the general public.
Our Quality, Mission Success and System Safety policy requires the implementation of a Safety Management System (SMS) and a Quality Management System (QMS) that meets or exceeds ISO 9001 standards. The continued implementation of our SMS allows us to maintain the corporate and regulatory strategies, procedures and compliance required to set the industry standard for safety culture. We will also develop and maintain an enterprise-wide 1LMX SMS framework to further ensure the quality and protection of our products, employees, customers and the environment.
The chief engineering director, supported by the directors of each business area., leads our Product Safety initiatives. The implementation of our SMS and product design is ultimately overseen by the Product Safety Committee, composed of vice presidents from each business area.
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