On November 4, Lockheed Martin and Meta announced that they are collaborating to apply the power of artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLM) for national security applications. The initiative is incorporating Meta’s Llama LLM into Lockheed Martin’s AI Factory to more efficiently generate code, analyze data and enhance business processes.
Among the initial use cases, AI Factory engineers incorporated Llama into Lockheed Martin’s LMText Navigator, a generative AI (GenAI) tool that can process large quantities of data from a variety of sources securely and on premises. Aggregating, processing and making sense of data from across the enterprise accelerates development and production of capabilities for our national security customers. More than 40,000 Lockheed Martin employees in the United States are already using the capability.
“Lockheed Martin is an ideal partner to scale use of LLMs like Llama for national security purposes because of our deep development and production expertise, as well as our longstanding role helping national security customers integrate missions across every domain,” said Dr. Steven H. Walker, Lockheed Martin vice president and chief technology officer. “Our heritage of engineering rigor and integrating artificial intelligence into our mission solutions has prepared us to tackle the complex challenges, ensuring that we can maintain the highest standards of security, reliability and performance.”
“These kinds of responsible and ethical uses of open-source AI models like Llama will not only support the prosperity and security of the United States, but they will also help establish U.S. open-source standards in the global race for AI leadership,” said Nick Clegg, Meta president, global affairs.
Source: Lockheed Martin
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By Loren Blinde
November 7, 2024
