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Air Force

Lockheed Martin Continues Development of Open Mission Systems Computer for U-2

Frank Wolfe

Monday, December 14th, 2020

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Lockheed Martin Continues Development of Open Mission Systems Computer for U-2

The Air Force U-2S Dragon Lady reconnaissance aircraft (Lockheed Martin Photo)

Last month, Lockheed Martin [LMT] demonstrated distributed processing using Kubernetes aboard the U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, as the company continues to develop a U-2 Open Mission Systems (OMS) computer, the company said on Dec. 14. "The demonstration is a critical steppingstone toward creating a DevSecOps [development, security, and operations] environment to enable the delivery of enhanced software capability to airborne assets in real-time," the company said. "The U-2 flew a Kubernetes cloud that connected in-flight to a ground…

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