Lockheed Martin and Red Hat have announced a collaboration to advance artificial intelligence (AI) innovation at the edge on the military manufacturer’s platforms. Adopting the newly announced Red Hat Device Edge will enable Lockheed Martin to support US national security missions by applying and standardizing AI technologies in geographically constrained environments.
► Military platforms adapt to threat environments in real time using leading-edge AI and Kubernetes technologies
Red Hat Device Edge delivers an enterprise-ready and supported distribution of MicroShift, a lightweight Kubernetes orchestration solution built from the edge capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift, along with an edge-optimised operating system built from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It allows an organisation’s architecture to evolve as its workload strategy changes.
Lockheed Martin and Red Hat are using Device Edge to equip US military platforms, such as the Stalker unmanned aerial system (UAS), with advanced software that was previously too large and complex for these systems. This increases their capability in the field and will drive faster, data-backed decision making. The Stalker will use onboard sensors and AI to adapt in real-time to a threat environment.
In a recent demonstration, the Stalker was used to detect a target while engineers used Red Hat Device Edge to make use of AI-based visual recognition for more accurate target identification and decision-making.
