Lockheed Martin sets up centre for innovation in Gurgaon

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Lockheed Martin sets up centre for innovation in Gurgaon

Saturday, August 11, 2007
19:38 IST

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Gurgaon (Haryana): US defence and aerospace major Lockheed Martin opened here Saturday a centre for innovation, its third such facility globally, under a 50:50 collaborative venture with Bangalore-based Wipro.


Known as Ambar Jyoti, this lab will develop, demonstrate and experiment with emerging network-enabled capabilities and applications and the two companies will build this as a modelling and simulation experimentation facility.


"Through this lab, together we will explore the art of the possible and prepare for network-centric operations of the future," Richard G. Kirkland, the group's president for South Asia, said at the opening event.


"We are certain that as a result of this project, the Indian market will get easier access to such advanced network centric based architectures and concepts," A.L. Rao, chief operating officer of Wipro Technologies, added.


Kirkland had said earlier that the lab would have core competence in testing and analysing war-fighting concepts and other command and control operations with some 40 trained people to begin with. "But as and when the need arises, we will deploy people depending on what kind of demonstrations the client needs," Kirkland - who is based at Arlington in Virginia - had added.


The Gurgaon facility on the edge of the national capital will help defence and homeland security customers fight terror and tackle issues like disasters in an integrated manner by suggesting how the resources can be optimally deployed.


Technically, the services offered by the centre will combine what is also called C4ISR capabilities - command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. "It will be modelled on the Centre for Innovation in Suffolk, Virginia, and the experimentation facility called 'Swift' at the Farnborough Aerospace Centre in Britain," Kirkland said.

"Essentially, the facility will develop for its civil and defence customers the solutions required to address complex problems, emerging threats and similar operational challenges, using modern techniques."

The situations can vary from floods to disasters and earthquakes and terror attacks, maritime surveillance and the whole battle space, while the solutions will help concerned authorities deal with the situation in the best possible way.


"In other words, our expert team at the centre, together with the customers, can effectively simulate various operations so that a clearer understanding emerges about the challenges and opportunities of a situation and the technologies needed."

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