The virtual environment is designed to support testing across the United States’ layered homeland missile defense architecture. Lockheed Martin will work with MDA’s Directorate of Engineering, which is leading digital transformation across the agency.
The program will integrate missile defense design, implementation and testing functions within a modernized software environment. Lockheed Martin said the approach is intended to reduce risk and move new capabilities to operators more efficiently.
“Missile defense in today’s threat landscape presents an integration challenge across a vast ecosystem,” said Erika Marshall, vice president of Enterprise Mission Command and Control at Lockheed Martin. “M&S Vistas Framework will deliver software-driven innovation and a transformative testing environment that will efficiently deliver capabilities to our operators, reducing risk and ensuring America and its allies are ready for the threats of tomorrow.”
The M&S Vistas Framework builds on Lockheed Martin’s existing missile defense work and its investments in digital transformation. The company said the framework will support continued modernization of layered homeland missile defense capabilities.
Lockheed Martin said its approach uses iterative development, data-driven insights and ongoing experimentation to improve missile defense systems. Those processes are intended to support the fielding of coordinated capabilities for warfighters operating across the missile defense architecture.
The contract gives MDA a path to continue evolving its virtual test environment as missile defense requirements change. Lockheed Martin said the framework will support real-time, coordinated responses while strengthening the connection between development, testing and operational capability.
