Leidos Australia has been contracted by Lockheed Martin Australia to provide software development, cybersecurity, verification and validation services in support of the development of the Australian Defence Force’s next-generation Joint Air Battle Management System under Project AIR6500.
Under the contract, Leidos Australia will support the Joint Air Battle Management System enterprise in the cybersecurity, modelling and simulation, and validation domains. This work will assist Lockheed Martin Australia in building a highly robust and secure open systems architecture for AIR6500, which will provide Defence with an advanced integrated air and missile defence capability to combat current and future threats.
“We are proud to be partnering with Lockheed Martin Australia to provide this mission-critical capability to Defence,” said Leidos Australia CEO Paul Chase. “This is an exciting opportunity for Leidos, which supports our business growth in Australia while providing our Australian engineering team an opportunity to work in partnership with Lockheed Martin to shape and validate capabilities integrated into AIR6500.”
“Being part of the AIR6500 solution provides the potential for Leidos and Lockheed Martin Australia to work together to integrate intelligence and situational awareness information into the AIR6500 Joint Air Battle Management System from our JP2096 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform,” he added. “This capability enables analysts to quickly search, collate and assimilate information from multiple databases, delivering more complete information in a reduced timeframe thereby enabling swifter, better informed, decisionmaking.”
“We are delighted to partner with Leidos Australia, who bring a wealth of experience to AIR6500,” said Lockheed Martin ANZ CEO Warren McDonald. “The partnership marks an important focus on designing a rigorous, independently validated, agile air battle management system that supports the Australian Defence Force.”
“Having Leidos Australia integrated into the AIR6500 project builds trust and discipline into the agile software development process,” he said. “It allows Leidos Australia to work directly with our engineers in real time to test and evaluate incrementally. This supports our engineers to continually progress and to resolve technical issues rapidly to achieve project milestones.”
