{"id":17562,"date":"2015-12-11T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2015\/12\/11\/lockheed-martin-developing-open-controller-for-army-s-tardec\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:58:54","slug":"lockheed-martin-developing-open-controller-for-army-s-tardec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/sensors\/2015\/12\/11\/lockheed-martin-developing-open-controller-for-army-s-tardec\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin developing open controller for Army&#8217;s TARDEC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Lockheed Martin recently won two contracts from the Army&#8217;s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center to continue developing an open-architecture controller, marking the first time the company has successfully marketed its new processor as a stand-alone product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The open-architecture controller is being developed for the Army&#8217;s Modular Active Protection System (MAPS) program and will process information from multiple sensor and self-defense systems that can be used to protect the vehicle, enabling &#8220;autonomous or semi-autonomous detection and defeat of a variety of inbound threats,&#8221; a company statement reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What started as a concept to develop an open processor for Lockheed&#8217;s own internal programs has turned into a product that can be sold separately where it is needed, Rita Flaherty, a business development vice president for the company&#8217;s Fire Control line of business, told Defense News Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;One of our programs every year, when we were making investment decisions, would come forward with a discrete individual stove-piped processor investment request and after a period of time, we said, &#8216;This is crazy. 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