Predictive Maintenance · Risk Management
The U.S. Navy needs to process very large volumes of combat-system data quickly enough to improve situational awareness, detect and identify emerging threats, and reduce operator reaction time, including against hypersonic threats.
Reported impact
The AI-enhanced Aegis implementation is intended to improve situational awareness, operator decision making, and reaction time; improve detection, tracking, and identification of emerging threats; maximize uptime through predictive maintenance; and reduce cost while delivering new capability builds faster.
Lockheed Martin describes an in-house AI and machine learning implementation inside the Aegis environment for the U.S. Navy. Naval radars generate high volumes of electronic-signature and other operational data that feed the Aegis Fire Control system, where AI methods and AI algorithms are used to autonomously recognize patterns subtler than conventional software decision aids can detect. Those results are surfaced through the broader Aegis Combat System to improve situational awareness, operator decision support, and reaction time against fast-moving threats, including hypersonic targets. The company also applies AI across Aegis lifecycles, using operational and engineering data for predictive maintenance and pairing AI with model-based engineering processes to identify hardware and software issues earlier, reduce cost, and deliver new capability builds faster. Lockheed Martin says deployment is controlled through design, test, and review artifacts aligned to Department of Defense AI Ethical Principles and reviewed with customer stakeholders before release.
Sensor and electronic-signature data from naval radars flows into the Aegis Fire Control system, where AI methods analyze patterns in the data to improve detection, tracking, and identification of threats. The outputs are then presented through the Aegis Combat System to support operators and commanders, while additional operational and engineering data is used for predictive maintenance and earlier hardware/software issue identification.
"Aegis uses AI to provide critical mission-focused capability improvements in situational awareness, operator decision making and reduced reaction time."
"Lockheed Martin is developing and fielding AI technologies with speed and agility across Aegis Combat System lifecycles to deliver a superior solution and tactical advantage to the fleet."
"Lockheed Martin is using AI methods to enhance our Naval radars by identifying patterns in various types of data, dramatically improving the ability to detect, track and identify emerging threats based on the electronic signatures present in the data."
"Outside the combat system, AI can help Aegis predictively determine when parts will need maintenance before they break, thereby maximizing uptime."
"We’ve made tremendous progress in providing system enhancements, such as the ability to autonomously recognize patterns that are more subtle than a human with conventional software decision aids could discern."
"When applied with our model-based engineering processes, AI helps us identify and fix hardware and software problems early – keeping cost down and allowing us to deliver new capability builds faster."
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