Lockheed Martin and NEC Corporation have agreed to extend their partnership utilising NEC’s System Invariant Analysis Technology (SIAT). The companies are also finalising a licencing agreement with a multi-year option.
With a focus on driving speed and efficiency of system diagnostics, this partnership will continue to provide proven artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities across product lifecycles. This positively impacts the design and production phases of spacecraft development, including applications on NASA’s Orion vehicle for the Artemis mission.
Speaking about the agreement, Rick Ambrose, Executive VP of Lockheed Martin Space, said: “The power of AI is leveraged across our entire enterprise, and with a trusted partner like NEC, we gain the resources to expand its abilities at scale across our internal operations. By proactively analysing telemetry data we are able to deliver our systems even faster and streamline the work that our employees do every day.”
For several years, Lockheed Martin and NEC have been working together to evaluate the effectiveness of SIAT for early production testing and operational scenarios. As a result, Lockheed Martin has integrated SIAT into the Technology for Telemetry Analytics for Universal Artificial Intelligence (T-TAURI) AI service. This allows the organisation to drive proactive anomaly detection during the design, development, production and test phase of spacecraft development – even before applications in mission operations.
NEC’s SIAT advanced analytics engine uses data collected from sensors to learn the behaviour of systems, including computer systems, power plants, factories and buildings, enabling the system itself to automatically detect inconsistencies and prescribe resolutions. By integrating within Lockheed Martin’s T-TAURI platform, a comprehensive time series analysis framework, the team can gain an exhaustive, holistic understanding of a system, creating a foundational system for other advanced technologies like system-level digital twins. Since the initial partnership between NEC and Lockheed Martin, the teams have already seen applications for early pathfinding to detect production anomalies and software regression testing.
Motoo Nishihara, Executive VP, CTO and Member of the Board, NEC Corporation, added: “We’re thrilled that the innovative SIAT developed by NEC provides value to Lockheed Martin as it addresses not only the development of complex systems, but also the uniqueness of deep space exploration. Together, we are committed to strengthening our solution and finding new ways to apply this technology.”
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