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Lockheed Martin Chief Proposes ‘Firefighting-As-A-Service’ To Government Customers

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, October 13th, 2021

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Lockheed Martin Chief Proposes ‘Firefighting-As-A-Service’ To Government Customers

Lockheed Martin's Firehawk helicopter. Photo: Lockheed Martin

As Lockheed Martin [LMT] marches down a path to better integrate key commercial technologies such as 5G and artificial intelligence into its products for the warfighter, the company’s boss has also tasked his team with applying these capabilities to other national threats, such as fighting the increasing number of large wildfires. James Taiclet, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin, said the company is looking at how to integrate sensing, command and control, and existing assets together to predict if…

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