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American aerospace, arms, defense, information security, and technology corporation with a VERY direct connection to the University of Southern California...
Meeting Military Training Needs in the Metaverse
NOVEMBER 22, 202
As complex global security threats are constantly evolving, so is the fully immersive virtual world of the metaverse. So why not use one to solve the other?
Lockheed Martin is increasing training and simulation realism to ensure those we serve always stay ahead of ready. From futuristic training platforms with interactive cockpits to simulating opposing forces in wargaming exercises, customers can predict and prevent sooner.
The metaverse is enabling simulated battlespaces that are meeting diverse needs of militaries around the world.
Military Need #1: Immersive pilot training that is cost-effective and sustainable.
Solution: Lockheed Martin’s Amorphic Appearance Zero-Projector visual display system or AMAZE.
This “AMAZE” -ing new technology is reimagining the way customers can immerse themselves in high-fidelity training. AMAZE breaks the mold from projector-based systems to make training more realistic thanks to higher contrast and brightness displays.
Thanks to LED modules and a light relay, customers can focus on their strategic advantage rather than sustainment. That’s because AMAZE eliminates the need for a maintenance schedule, not to mention that it lowers the overall hardware footprint and lifecycle costs.
Military Need #2: The ability to train across a multi-domain environment.
Solution: Prepar3D®, Lockheed Martin’s flagship simulation and training software program.
With Prepar3D, militaries can create learning scenarios across aviation, maritime and ground domains in the virtual world. This is central to our 21st Century Security vision to enable a joint force across all domains.
Customers will find realism and customizability in Prepar3D’s open architecture. By integrating third-party and customer-generated content, threats can be outpaced as the landscape changes.
In this simulated environment, there is an extensive vehicle library that can even aid mixed reality training integration. Customers can immerse themselves in anything from a deep-sea submarine to an F-16, UH-60 Black Hawk and more.
Military Need #3: Non-laser live training technology without line-of-sight limitations.
Solution: SIMRES, Lockheed Martin’s groundbreaking solution to conducting force-on-force training.
This live, virtual, constructive, and gaming (LVC-G) simulation delivers a tailored solution to address many challenges with today’s laser-based systems. The problem is lasers don’t behave like actual ammunition, meaning they’re not the most realistic option.
But the SIMRES system uses sensors to track location and orientation of service members and weapons in the real world and maps them in a virtual simulation. The weapons, round types and physical environment are assigned attributes so that the system can accurately calculate ballistics and effects of firing events.
Think of it as real-life service member acting as avatars in a video game, through which all the calculations are conducted.
Military Need #4: The ability to replicate all necessary battlespaces.
Solution: Battle Staff Trainer (BST), Lockheed Martin’s proven wargaming and simulation solution.
What is the best way to successfully continue training and deploying armed forces? Enhancing the accuracy and realism of simulation.
The multi-domain operations capability of BST will allow militaries to solve for what the future holds and bring a variety of wargaming events to life.
Command and staff can learn to make smarter and faster decisions through realistic and customizable scenarios in this proven, validated training solution.
https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/2023/meeting-military-training-needs-in-the-metaverse.html
The Lockheed Martin Corporation
is an American aerospace, arms, defense, information security, and technology corporation with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in North Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington, D.C. area. As of January 2022, Lockheed Martin employs approximately 115,000 employees worldwide, including about 60,000 engineers and scientists.[3]
Lockheed Martin is one of the largest companies in the aerospace, military support, security, and technologies industry. It is the world's largest defense contractor by revenue for fiscal year 2014.[4]
In 2013, 78% of Lockheed Martin's revenues came from military sales;[5] it topped the list of US federal government contractors and received nearly 10% of the funds paid out by the Pentagon.[6] In 2009, US government contracts accounted for $38.4 billion (85%), foreign government contracts for $5.8 billion (13%), and commercial and other contracts for $900 million (2%).[7]
Half of the corporation's annual sales are to the U.S. Department of Defense.
Lockheed Martin is also a contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).[8]
Lockheed Martin operates in four business segments: Aeronautics, Missiles and Fire Control (MFC), Rotary and Mission Systems (RMS), and Space.[9] The company has received the Collier Trophy six times, including in 2001 for being part of developing the X-35/F-35B LiftFan Propulsion System[10][11][12] and most recently in 2018 for the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto-GCAS). Lockheed Martin is currently developing the F-35 Lightning II and leads the international supply chain, leads the team for the development and implementation of technology solutions for the new USAF Space Fence (AFSSS replacement),[13] and is the primary contractor for the development of the Orion command module.[14]
The company also invests in healthcare systems,
renewable energy systems, intelligent energy distribution, and compact nuclear fusion.[15]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin
USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center
(QCC) is a joint scientific research effort between Lockheed Martin Corporation and the University of Southern California (USC). The QCC is housed at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), a computer science and engineering research unit of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and is jointly operated by ISI and Lockheed Martin.
USC faculty, ISI researchers and students are performing basic and applied research into quantum computing, and are collaborating with researchers around the world. The QCC uses a D-Wave Two quantum annealing system, manufactured by D-Wave Systems, Inc.[1][2] The QCC is the first organization outside of D-Wave to operate the system.[3] The second system is installed at NASA Ames Research Center,[4] and is operated jointly by NASA and Google.[5][6] The systems must be kept extremely cold and electromagnetically well-shielded to operate with the longest possible coherence time.
History
The QCC was launched in November, 2011 under the leadership of Scientific and Technical Director Daniel Lidar, a USC professor of electrical engineering, chemistry and physics; Operational Director Robert F. Lucas,[17] director of ISI’s Computational Systems and Technology division; and Ned Allen and Greg Tallant of Lockheed Martin. The QCC began with a 128-qubit D-Wave One,[18] which was replaced in March 2013 with the 512-qubit D-Wave Two.[19]
Research
Research initially focused on testing whether the D-Wave is in fact a quantum system,[20][21][22][23] and has expanded to benchmarking the D-Wave against classical algorithms,[24][25] and various applications, including quantum machine learning.[26] Lockheed Martin researchers have focused on the application of adiabatic quantum computing to the problem of verification and validation of control systems and other tasks with similar mathematical structure, such as the design of special wave forms for RF applications with minimal side-lobes.
People
The team includes more than a dozen USC faculty members, ISI researchers, postdoctoral and graduate students, and more than 100 Lockheed Martin users.
Location
USC is located in downtown Los Angeles. ISI is located in Marina del Rey, California. Lockheed Martin headquarters is located in Bethesda, Maryland. D-Wave is located in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USC-Lockheed_Martin_Quantum_Computing_Center
Daniel Amihud Lidar
is the holder of the Viterbi Professorship of Engineering at the University of Southern California, where he is a professor of electrical engineering, chemistry, physics and astronomy. He is the director and co-founder of the USC Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology (CQIST) as well as scientific director of the USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center, notable for his research on control of quantum systems and quantum information processing.
Education
He is a class of 1986 graduate of the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West. He obtained his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1997 under Robert Benny Gerber [2] and Ofer Biham, with a thesis entitled Structural Characterization of Disordered Systems.
Career
In 1997–2000, he was a postdoc at UC Berkeley, having been awarded Rothschild Foundation[3] and Fulbright Program fellowships (the latter of which he declined)[citation needed]; in 2000–2005, he was an assistant professor and then later an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Toronto, with cross-appointments in physics and mathematics. He moved to the University of Southern California in 2005, where he is a professor of electrical engineering, chemistry, and physics.
Honors
He was a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient,[4] a 2007 Fellow of the American Physical Society,[5] a 2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
and 2015 Fellow of the IEEE * *
He is listed as one of the top 20 authors of the decade 2000–2009 in Quantum Computing by Thomson Reuters' Sciencewatch.[6] In 2009 he was elected an Outstanding Referee [7] of the American Physical Society. His early career awards include a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Young Explorer Award given by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research for the top 20 researchers in Canada under age 40, and the John Charles Polanyi Prize in Chemistry awarded by the Ontario Council of Graduate Studies.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lidar
