Lockheed Martin, NEC put more AI into space development and testing Lockheed Martin and NEC have signed an agreement to extend their use of NEC’s System Invariant Analysis Technology (SIAT) for spacecraft development. With a focus on the speed and efficiency of system diagnostics, the partnership will involve using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) across product lifecycles. This positively impacts design and production phases of spacecraft development, says Lockheed, including applications on NASA’s Orion vehicle (pictured) for the Artemis mission. “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,” said Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Space. “By proactively analyzing telemetry data we are able to deliver our systems even faster and streamline the work that our employees do every day.”