Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Oct. 3 said it has opened its fourth Security Intelligence Centre in Canberra, Australia, further extending the company’s international cyber defense network.
The main purposes of each center are to bolster the company’s cyber security capabilities while developing and expanding an elite, local cyber workforce, Lockheed Martin said.
Lockheed Martin said it has spent more than $9 million in Australia to consolidate its business operations into a single facility, Lockheed Martin Centennial House, and the establishment of the NexGen Cyber Information and Technology Centre in Canberra last year.
“Lockheed Martin intends to lead the way in finding cyber-tech solutions that make our country safer, and to create cyber-professional jobs that meet Australia’s national security challenges today and tomorrow,” Raydon Gates, CEO of Lockheed Martin Australia, said in a statement. “The establishment of this newest center is just the next phase in our commitment to Australia’s cyber security and technological economic evolution.”
Lockheed Martin said the cyber intelligence analysts that will work at the new center will integrate their local operations into the company’s global computer network defense.