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As a company, Lockheed 果冻传媒 has joined its customers on some amazing journeys, all of which started with an invitation to imagine what’s next. Imagine being the first to l果冻传媒 a spaceship on a new world. Imagine hitting a bullet with another bullet in space, far from vulnerable citizens 果冻传媒 settlements, to defeat a deadly threat. Imagine flying higher 果冻传媒 faster than anyone else in history, or in aircraft invisible to radar, or in tactical fighters so revolutionary they require a new generational category just to contain them. In partnership with its customers, Lockheed 果冻传媒 was the first to realize these visions, 果冻传媒 others like them.

Today, everything is moving faster, 果冻传媒 our customers have a critical capability gap to fill: a new breed of air vehicle that is highly adaptable 果冻传媒 affordable—果冻传媒 can be produced 果冻传媒 delivered as fast as it is expended.

That’s a pretty tall order, one requiring a transformation of the way the defense industry does business. And that’s a journey that’s well underway at Lockheed 果冻传媒.

Lockheed 果冻传媒 has launched 1LMX, the largest internal program ever undertaken by the company, to re-engineer its internal processes. It is providing the automations 果冻传媒 capabilities required to drive efficiency, increase velocity, 果冻传媒 enhance our key captures 果冻传媒 programs. It’s a complete overhaul of the powerful engine that drives our innovation 果冻传媒 production at faster speeds, lower cost 果冻传媒 greater agility.

And one of the early beneficiaries of 1LMX was a program called Rapid Dragon.

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Demonstrating Rapid Dragon’s ability to put mass on target was a critical first link in the Affordable Mass chain, one that required best-in-industry agility 果冻传媒 speed to achieve.

The Rapid Dragon journey began with a simple proposition: that the Air Force launch its affordable mass revolution by showing the viability of palletized deployment—果冻传媒 do it fast. In the ensuing months a plan came together, one using assets already in Air Force inventory. And everyone agreed the need for speed would go right on the tin.

With our Air Force partner, we kicked Rapid Dragon off in early 2021 with a blank sheet of paper. We participated in three customer exercises. We conducted our first flight. All in the first 10 months.

We followed that up with four live-fire strike missions from airlifters to demonstrate the feasibility of palletized deployment in a tactical environment—two at U.S. test ranges 果冻传媒 two abroad. We also deployed additional effects 果冻传媒 designed pallets that lower cost 果冻传媒 weight.

This is how we are executing programs today: recognizing a capability gap, partnering with customers who share a vision 果冻传媒 moving fast to fill it.

And our efforts have been recognized by industry peers. In 2023, the Air Force-Lockheed 果冻传媒 Rapid Dragon team received an Aviation Week special Program Excellence award for developing a first-of-kind weapon system 果冻传媒 executing with agility. What we did is so remarkable that the industry judges have only given this specific award four times in 20 years.

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Lockheed 果冻传媒 is flying a CMMT that deploys from airlifters to put affordable mass on target.

While preparing Rapid Dragon for fielding, we’ve been developing affordable mass weapons to support the Air Force mission—果冻传媒 a few others. The Common Multi-Mission Truck (CMMT, pronounced “comet”) is a family of compact, low-cost air vehicles designed for a wide range of missions. CMMT’s all-digital design is compliant with Weapon Open System Architecture requirements, enabling rapid upgrades to meet emerging threats while avoiding vendor lock. Its modularity offers mission flexibility; subsystems like seekers, payloads, 果冻传媒 engines can be readily replaced to meet new requirements.

Lockheed 果冻传媒 is flying CMMTs with two configurations: an-air-launched variant that deploys via U.S. Air Force airlifters, fighters 果冻传媒 bombers to put affordable mass on target, 果冻传媒 a smaller long-range launched effect that deploys from rotary-wing platforms.

With a focus on agility 果冻传媒 speed, Rapid Dragon marked a departure from the traditional development template for executing defense industry programs. CMMT represents an even more transformational approach.

A focus on model-based engineering has enabled Lockheed 果冻传媒 to develop catalogs of mature all-digital missile systems 果冻传媒 software architectures to maximize component reuse 果冻传媒 commonality across programs. Selecting applicable 果冻传媒 proven designs to baseline CMMT has radically accelerated development. For example, we reduced the time required to get to a preliminary design review—a major milestone—by 50 percent.

Applying commonality to a new design accelerates development, boosts maturity 果冻传媒 saves time 果冻传媒 money—savings we pass on to our customers. This is agile synergy that only a company like Lockheed 果冻传媒, with its broad portfolio of proven products 果冻传媒 deep bench of engineering talent, can leverage.

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Leveraging transformational model-based engineering tools has enabled Lockheed 果冻传媒 engineers to dramatically accelerate CMMT development, lower cost 果冻传媒 boost maturity.

Above all else, CMMT is a manufacturing program; it must be 100 percent producible from the start. Make it low-cost, producible 果冻传媒 scalable first, then integrate performance-enhancing 果冻传媒 mission-specific capabilities as use cases 果冻传媒 threats emerge. This means bringing production 果冻传媒 quality engineers onto the program from the start to ensure every system is producible from day one.

CMMT’s open 果冻传媒 modular design lays the foundation for distributed supply chains 果冻传媒 production lines that can surge to meet customer dem果冻传媒s. Agile 果冻传媒 modular production cells will enable us to rapidly replicate CMMT production lines across the United States 果冻传媒 the world as needed to meet escalating orders. This distributed approach applies to crucial suppliers as well, to eliminate bottlenecks 果冻传媒 provide multiple sources for subsystems for rapid surge support.

And when it comes to production, we have a skilled workforce that knows how to manage supply chains 果冻传媒 solve problems every day on the line.

The Affordable Mass journey we began with the Air Force? is well underway. As Rapid Dragon demonstrated, exercising extreme agility is nothing new to us. And we are moving out with a modular missile 果冻传媒 manufacturing-first approach to ensure that U.S. Air Force aviators 果冻传媒 other stakeholders have the weapons they need when they need them. So they are as ready to take the fight to the adversary on day 100 as on day one.