Lockheed Martin integrating Google’s generative AI tools into workflow ops
Lockheed Martin announced Wednesday that it is teaming up with Google Public Sector to make the tech giant’s generative artificial intelligence applications available to employees for a range of use cases.
The tools will be incorporated into the Lockheed Martin AI Factory, the company’s internal ecosystem for providing computing support, data and software for personnel developing artificial intelligence solutions. The deal includes integration of Google Gemini, a family of large multimodal AI models that the defense contractor will be able to leverage across workflows.
“Collaborating with Google Public Sector to bring Gemini on premises underscores our commitment to delivering cutting-edge, secure AI capabilities that directly support our mission-critical programs. This initiative equips our engineers with powerful tools — safely and at scale—to accelerate innovation in support of our business and critical missions,” Greg Forrest, vice president of AI foundations and commercialization at Lockheed Martin, said in a statement.
Generative AI is a subfield of artificial intelligence that uses large language models to generate content — such as text, audio, code, images, videos and other types of media — based on prompts and data they are trained on.
In the last few years, both the Pentagon and the defense industry have moved to adopt the disruptive technology to streamline operations, while also ensuring that critical data remains secure.
The new collaboration between Lockheed Martin and Google Public Sector will occur in phases, with the first phase providing Google’s generative AI tools on Lockheed’s unclassified, on-premises work spaces, according to a press release.
Employees will be able to use the technology for tasks such as accelerated data analysis to identify patterns and critical insights; advanced research and development; and optimizing supply chain management and logistics planning.
“Our collaboration with Lockheed Martin is a testament to our joint commitment to bringing the power of generative AI to meet the needs of our public sector customers,” Jim Kelly, vice president of federal at Google Public Sector, said in a statement. “We are proud to take yet another industry-leading step with Lockheed Martin to deploy the most advanced AI tools to support government agencies, while adhering to the absolute highest standards of security and data governance.”
