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The State of Army Modernization
The Army’s modernization agenda is unprecedented in scale, spanning everything from long-range precision fires and network upgrades to next-generation combat vehicles and soldier lethality programs. But progress is uneven, with some programs racing forward while others face funding, testing, or integration hurdles. The question is whether the Army can accelerate success while still building long-term,…
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Lockheed Martin Advances Global Missile Warning & Defense
As global missile threats grow in complexity and volume, Lockheed Martin is developing and delivering advanced missile warning, tracking and defense capabilities across multiple orbits to protect America and its allies. From geosynchronous to low Earth orbit, the company is enabling a resilient, responsive space architecture designed to provide early warning and persistent tracking —…
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SMD Debrief 2025
This webcast aired on August 11, 2025 The annual Space & Missile Defense (SMD) Symposium is an educational, professional development and networking event for military and space and missile defense industry leaders. The Symposium focuses on the latest topics of interest in SMD, including threats from near-peer adversaries and rogue states, technological advances and what…
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Crewed-Uncrewed Teaming Changes the Game for the Army
With dense rain forests, rugged mountain ranges, and far-flung land masses, the terrain in the Indo-Pacific presents a unique challenge for ground forces. Adversaries have lots of places to hide. Severe weather and thick foliage make gathering intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, or ISR, difficult. Fortunately, the U.S. Army has an ace up its sleeve: crewed-uncrewed…
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Future-focused National Security Space Technologies to Watch in 2025
To ensure Lockheed Martin remains at the forefront of advancement across the aerospace and defense industry, we are pushing the innovative envelope in key areas including: 1. Doubling-down on Air-Space Integration In today’s complex and rapidly changing threat environment, the need for seamless integration between air and space capabilities is more critical than ever. Air-Space…
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Webcast: AI’s Role in Role in the Future of Defense Manufacturing
As the United States military undertakes a massive modernization effort, manufacturing processes that can deliver new vehicles, weapon systems and other materiel will be critical to ensuring a force that can fight on the modern battlefield. To meet these manufacturing demands, industry is turning to artificial intelligence (AI)-driven tools. AI’s ability to analyze massive amounts…
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Discussion at AUSA: Army Modernization
This discussion took place on October 14 at AUSA Annual 2024. As the Army undertakes a massive modernization effort, its efforts face challenges in maintaining readiness for current needs while transitioning to future needs. What is the current state of modernization? How are systems and different pieces of the Army such as ground vehicles and…
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“Switching Cost” – For the Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft Program, It’s More than Just Money
“Switching cost” is a term businesses use to better understand the affordability and true customer cost of changing, or switching, from one system or product to another. It is easy to identify the cost of the product itself, but the total cost comes in many other forms. For the United States Military, this means operations,…
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Enabling the 21st Century Warfighter
For generations, customers have counted on Lockheed Martin to help them overcome their most complex national security challenges and stay ahead of emerging threats. The decades ahead will require more technologically-advanced solutions than ever before. To help accelerate American and allied military modernization and preserve global deterrence, Lockheed Martin is developing a new framework for…
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Three Ways JADO is Transforming the Future of Aviation
Stephanie Hill, Executive Vice President, Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems Greg Ulmer, Executive Vice President, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics *** Imagine a conversation with Allan and Malcolm Loughead (who later became the “Lockheed” brothers) in 1913 on the day they flew the Model-G Hydro-Aeroplane, or with aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky after his first practical helicopter…
