Lockheed Martin and Google Public Sector have announced a new strategic collaboration to deploy Google’s advanced generative AI technologies, including its Gemini models, within Lockheed Martin’s secure AI Factory infrastructure. The partnership, unveiled during the Google Public Sector Summit 2025 in Washington, D.C., is designed to enhance mission-critical capabilities across aerospace, space exploration, and cybersecurity through on-premise and air-gapped AI deployment.
The phased rollout will begin with the integration of Google’s generative AI within Lockheed Martin’s unclassified on-premise environment using Google Distributed Cloud. This will provide Lockheed Martin employees secure access to Google’s AI tools, enabling rapid data-driven insights while maintaining the highest standards of national security and data governance. Future phases will extend these capabilities to classified systems.
The collaboration focuses on accelerating multi-modal data analysis, improving research and development processes, and optimizing logistics operations. By processing and analyzing vast datasets in minutes instead of days, Lockheed Martin aims to identify critical patterns and anomalies more efficiently. The use of generative AI is also expected to accelerate the exploration of new materials, designs, and software, thereby shortening technology development cycles and enhancing mission readiness.
Lockheed Martin’s AI Factory will serve as the foundation for this integration, enabling engineers to leverage Google’s AI capabilities safely and at scale. The initiative reflects a broader effort to build trustworthy and secure AI systems that support Lockheed Martin’s 21st Century Security® strategy and the evolving demands of national defense.
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“Collaborating with Google Public Sector to bring Gemini on–premises underscores our commitment to delivering cutting–edge, secure AI capabilities that directly support our mission–critical programs. This initiative equips our engineers with powerful tools—safely and at scale—to accelerate innovation in support of our business and critical missions.”
Greg Forrest, Vice President of AI Foundations and Commercialization at Lockheed Martin
“Our collaboration with Lockheed Martin is a testament to our joint commitment to bringing the power of generative AI to meet the needs of our public sector customers. We are proud to take yet another industry-leading step with Lockheed Martin to deploy the most advanced AI tools to support government agencies, while adhering to the absolute highest standards of security and data governance.”
Jim Kelly, Vice President of Federal, Google Public Sector
