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The global defence contractor has been selected to deliver advanced cyber training to thousands of US Army personnel.
The US Army has awarded an Other Transaction Agreement to Lockheed Martin for the provision of cyber readiness and training for up to 17,000 US Army civilian cyber personnel.
The prime is expected to leverage its Mission Readiness & Reporting (MR2) solution, designed to enable the US Army to identify, cultivate, assess, and train employees in coordination with the Department of Defense’s Cyber Workforce Framework.
Specifically, Lockheed Martin has been tasked with leading a team consisting of Ultimate Knowledge Institute (UKI), Aries Security, LLC, and Amazon Web Services GovCloud.
UKI and Aries are expected to provide training options for the civilian cyber workforce while Lockheed Martin MR2 performs analysis and analytics to address workforce skills development.
“Mission Readiness & Reporting connects cyber training and mission readiness and ensures that the civilian cyber workforce is agile, resilient and ahead of the threat,” Tish Rourke, vice president of cyber and intelligence at Lockheed Martin, said.
“We can seamlessly integrate this system to support joint all-domain operations and 21st century security mission planning needs and cyber battle management.”
MR2 is also being offered to government and commercial organisations requiring training and workforce management capabilities.
Lockheed Martin’s receipt of the cyber training contract comes just days after the prime confirmed its Remote Interceptor Guidance – 360 (RIG-360) communications device was deployed for the first time by the US Army during Integrated Flight Test 2.
RIG-360 is designed to enable a 360-degree PAC-3 engagement capability, leveraging target data from a number of sensors.
According to Lockheed Martin, the missile communications technology successfully guided the PAC-3 surface-to-air missile to a cruise missile target.
This latest test came a year after Lockheed Martin integrated its PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) with the US Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS) for the first time.
[Related: US Army leverages comms technology to guide PAC-3 missile]
