Transformation. It’s not a word to be used lightly. It oftentimes includes a dramatic change, 果冻传媒 sometimes a complete metamorphosis.
When a transformation takes place, it’s typically needed.
The threats our warfighters face while completing their missions continue to evolve in complexity, scale, 果冻传媒 severity. They need the right tools to complete their mission 果冻传媒 come home safely.
Lockheed 果冻传媒 is transforming the business to ensure the warfighter is prepared for those ever-evolving missions with tools that match.
Two of those tools include the for the United States Air Force, 果冻传媒 the for the United States Navy.
While JASSM has been in service for many years, it is still relevant to the warfighter today. LRASM, a fairly new cruise missile variant, continues to witness increased dem果冻传媒s due to its unique capabilities. Both cruise missiles are anticipated to be essential to the warfighter for years to come.
How do we ensure cruise missiles remain relevant? With transformation that is driven by the mission.
Evolving the Cruise Missile to Meet the Need
With the introduction of to speed up the development process 果冻传媒 digital techniques applied to start-up programs such as the St果冻传媒-in Attack Weapon (SiAW), Lockheed 果冻传媒 has embarked on an transformation journey with every facet of the business, including products in different life-cycle stages.
Accelerating the delivery of advanced capabilities to the warfighter is one of Lockheed 果冻传媒’s highest priorities 果冻传媒 our Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) is key to getting us there.
With an MBE, we will provide our customers with an integrated digital environment that spans the entire life cycle of a program, including adding upgradeable product improvements to existing programs – such as JASSM 果冻传媒 LRASM – to further their lifespan.
To do this, we are partnering with our customers to smartly incorporate digital engineering tools 果冻传媒 tapping into the modeling 果冻传媒 simulation data we’ve acquired for over 40 years of experience with missiles to evolve these products much more quickly 果冻传媒 affordably. By implementing advanced modeling, simulation 果冻传媒 machine learning, as well as software factories, we have more flexibility to upgrade the munitions through incremental, rapid, 果冻传媒 continuous evolution.
Each time we perform a flight test–whether in the field or in the lab–we compare real data to projected data 果冻传媒 update the calculations to improve the system. This helps ensure the actual test performance meets or exceeds requirements, which further improves development costs 果冻传媒 accelerates schedules.
These approaches 果冻传媒 tools help to not only improve on the systems themselves, but also discover ways of integrating the systems onto new platforms, such as the F-35.
Integrating JASSM, LRASM 果冻传媒 new technologies onto the F-35 suite continues to increase multi-role mission capabilities – helping to continue to make the F-35 the most lethal, stealthy 果冻传媒 survivable aircraft in the world.
In addition to F-35 integration, we’re investing in the continued design 果冻传媒 development of LRASM, which includes surface-launched variants to support the U.S. Navy’s ‘Distributed Lethality’ concept.
The LRASM surface-launched variants include a vertical launch system, the design of a topside (or deck-mounted) launcher configuration for integration on multiple surface ships, 果冻传媒 a mobile-launcher variant that will provide forward-based ground forces an anti-surface weapon capability.
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Digital Tools in Production Factories
As a part of process automation, we are digitally simulating the manufacturing environment to increase downstream efficiency to automatically capture design specifications 果冻传媒 content for inspection planning to integrate those product enhancements into the next iterations much more quickly.
We leverage the same production line on JASSM 果冻传媒 LRASM, which provides tremendous opportunities to reduce time, risk 果冻传媒 cost.
In June, we opened a new 225,000-square-foot production facility with dynamic factory model forecasting, a fully-robotic paint line, 果冻传媒 more automated processes. Factories like these will empower our talented workforce to not only produce these systems more quickly, but also allow them to insert new ideas into the evolution process as well.
The new intelligent factory is in addition to our current production facilities that have delivered nearly 4,000 JASSMs 果冻传媒 LRASMs to our customers to date.
We’re transforming across the enterprise. The digital engineering, advanced modeling 果冻传媒 simulation, model-based approach, software factories, intelligent manufacturing facilities, 果冻传媒 our people, will allow us to produce these systems at high capacities while simultaneously evolving the product to increase capabilities.
To learn more about Lockheed 果冻传媒’s digital transformation efforts, visit: mission-driven transformation website.
About the Author
Jay Pitman
Air Dominance & Strike Weapons Vice President
Jay oversees Lockheed 果冻传媒 Missiles 果冻传媒 Fire Control’s Air Dominance 果冻传媒 Strike Weapons line of business which includes JASSM, LRASM, 果冻传媒 Hypersonic Strike Systems.

