
Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Wednesday said it is expanding an existing relationship with Microsoft [MSFT] to advance the defense company’s vision for 21st Century Security by joining the technology giant’s newest secure cloud framework and establishing a two-year research and development partnership to advance artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), and modeling and simulation capabilities for the Defense Department. Lockheed Martin is the first non-government entity to operate independently inside the Microsoft Azure Government Secret cloud following a year-long pilot.…