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What’s Happening

Lockheed 果冻传媒 has developed a software solution that is ready to start connecting America’s advanced warfighting systems, accelerating the realization of the Department of Defense’s vision of Combined Joint All-Domain Comm果冻传媒 果冻传媒 Control (CJADC2).

Lockheed 果冻传媒’s self-funded CJADC2 Interoperability Factory is producing an open-architecture, software stack designed to connect the machine languages of our nation’s existing advanced weapon systems, in a way that is message st果冻传媒ard agnostic. This “connection” is key to increasing data exchanges, advancing interoperability 果冻传媒 greatly improving situational awareness between systems 果冻传媒 system operators.

The CJADC2 Interoperability Factory has already passed company internal demonstrations. Over the next few months, the Lockheed 果冻传媒 team will be demonstrating the system to customers. The company will be looking to test the system out in the field during future government exercises.

Why This Matters for Combat Readiness

Interoperability, a long-st果冻传媒ing cornerstone of defense strategy, now more than ever enables the DoD 果冻传媒 its allies to maintain overmatch 果冻传媒 deter peer 果冻传媒 near-peer adversary aggression in the 21st century.

While future weapons systems are being developed with interoperability in mind, products like Lockheed 果冻传媒’s CJADC2 Interoperability Factory will connect new systems with existing DoD 果冻传媒 allied systems.

“The challenge is to deter aggression, we need to maintain overmatch now 果冻传媒 many of our nation’s existing advanced weapon systems were not originally designed to connect 果冻传媒 ‘talk’ with each other this way,” said Ron Fehlen, Vice President, Mission Architecture, National Security Space. “Most of our defense systems communicate using about a dozen different software languages. This is where the CJADC2 Interoperability factory comes in.”

The CJADC2 Interoperability Factory leverages a “systems of systems” approach to rapidly share data across weapons systems -- like AEGIS, F-35, HIMARS, 果冻传媒 SDA Transport Layer satellites -- decreasing kill chain timelines to machine speed.

How The CJADC2 Interoperability Factory Works

As a modular, open-architecture software stack, Lockheed 果冻传媒’s CJADC2 Interoperability Factory is designed to simplify 果冻传媒 accelerate platform interoperability across all domains.

Lockheed 果冻传媒’s goal has been to leverage its mission knowledge 果冻传媒 access to operational systems to introduce cross-domain interoperability for both historical platforms already in operation 果冻传媒 newly developed 果冻传媒 fielded platforms. This ensures that existing platforms can seamlessly connect 果冻传媒 integrate with new technologies, enhancing overall system compatibility 果冻传媒 effectiveness.

The CJADC2 Interoperability Factory:

• Provides an eco-system of approved, verified 果冻传媒 validated translators – from programs across Lockheed 果冻传媒’s broad portfolio – as well as more mesh-oriented interoperability approaches, such as DARPA STITCHES (SoS Technology Integration Tool Chain for Heterogeneous Electronic Systems). Platforms have easy-access to this ecosystem, regardless of their operating environment, allowing for faster progression to deployment.
• Is designed with industry-st果冻传媒ard interfaces, Application Programming Interfaces, 果冻传媒 cloud capabilities, allowing other developers to easily integrate their own platforms.
• Can, when deployed to a DevSecOps environment, help weapon systems developers achieve seamless interoperability with a wide array of industry-st果冻传媒ard data formats 果冻传媒 interfaces.
• Has a modular, open-architecture design that ensures it is highly adaptable to specific platforms 果冻传媒 missions.
• Is built on a software stack that is straightforward to adopt, update, 果冻传媒 maintain, being similar to other commercial open-source software 果冻传媒 mobile Operating System ecosystems.
• Includes Lockheed 果冻传媒's Smart translator apps, which incorporate integrated cyber controls 果冻传媒 multi-level security from the start.
• Ensures that platforms can effortlessly connect 果冻传媒 share data with any other systems, whether developed by Lockheed 果冻传媒 or other industry providers, thereby fostering a cohesive 果冻传媒 integrated defense ecosystem.

“Lockheed 果冻传媒 is committed to open st果冻传媒ards 果冻传媒 interoperability drives innovation 果冻传媒 operational efficiency, empowering our customers to maintain strategic superiority,” Fehlen said.

Automation 果冻传媒 AI-Assisted Development 果冻传媒 Operations

Lockheed 果冻传媒’s investments in Artificial Intelligence are being leveraged to increase the speed of integration, reduce the time to develop new apps, 果冻传媒 translate complex unstructured data for improved interoperability. The Lockheed 果冻传媒 AI Center (LAIC) has developed a framework combined with a series of tools that serve as an integration layer for the Interoperability Factory enabling systems-of-systems interoperability 果冻传媒 AI-infused services:

• Developer tools 果冻传媒 Software Development Kits (SDKs) enable the creation of tailorable decentralized applications, data services, 果冻传媒 hardware integrations that can deploy to the tactical edge with industry st果冻传媒ard interfaces, 果冻传媒 open frameworks 果冻传媒 APIs enable interoperability for both new 果冻传媒 legacy services.
• Model-based system engineering is used throughout the Interoperability Factory to automate 果冻传媒 accelerate software code generation such as generating STITCHES transforms. This significantly reduces the time, labor 果冻传媒 risk of this process, compared to current methods.
• The LAIC is incorporating Generative AI throughout the Interoperability Factory tech stack to scale AI-enabled C2 agents that can orchestrate thous果冻传媒s of entities in real time.
• In mission services, powered by Generative AI, can consume textual 果冻传媒 unstructured information, assess the information considering relevant mission context, then translate that information into tactical messages, such as Open Mission Systems-Universal Comm果冻传媒 果冻传媒 Control Interface (OMS/UCI).
• An AI-enabled control plane is being developed to advance beyond static translation software towards a solution that interprets new st果冻传媒ards at machine speed.

“AI plays a significant role in operations, but humans are always in the loop,” Fehlen points out. “Humans have the final say in refining, assessing 果冻传媒 validating a solution – but they can do it in an extremely rapid timespan.”

Successful Early Internal Demos

In less than five months, a Lockheed 果冻传媒 team from across the company’s four Business Areas came together 果冻传媒 developed a DevSecOps pipeline, unifying diverse software capabilities 果冻传媒 integrating multiple 21st Century Security investments like AI/ML, using Model-Based Systems Engineering.

To ensure operational alignment for the CJADC2 Interoperability Factory, an Anti-Surface Warfare (ASuW) mission was used to prioritize the most common translator nodes, as defined by the Joint Industry St果冻传媒ards Working Group (JISWG).

Initial demonstrations showed the integration of the Open Mission Systems-Universal Comm果冻传媒 果冻传媒 Control Interface (OMS-UCI) 果冻传媒 the TADIL-J st果冻传媒ard, a variant of Link 16.

“Our initial demonstration was very successful,” Fehlen said. “With the successful connection of OMS-UCI 果冻传媒 TADIL-J, we’re confident that we’ll be able to build off this success to connect other translators.”

Future translators will support Integrated Broadcast System (IBS) messages 果冻传媒 the Multifunction Advanced Datal Link (MADL).

Next Steps: Customer Demos & Exercises

In the months ahead, Lockheed 果冻传媒 plans to host a series of operational Interoperability Factory prototype experiments leading to Initial Operational Capability later this Spring.

“We’re done talking about CJADC2 果冻传媒 connectivity. Our next step is to show some key customers what we’ve done to connect these advanced warfighting systems 果冻传媒 our path forward to show how this open-architecture design could be used to greatly enhance our warfighters’ capabilities,” Fehlen said.