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Classified Cloud Innovations

Lockheed Martin is the first defense industrial base member to use Microsoft’s newest National Industrial Security Program (NISP) framework for air-gapped clouds after a year-long pilot. Work on developing the classified and unclassified cloud environments is already underway, with expectations for the project to be operational in 2023.

Microsoft’s first-of-its-kind technology will allow Lockheed Martin to dynamically scale IT demands under authorized guidance and directly operate mission workloads inside Azure Government Secret, including highly restricted special programs.

This allows Lockheed Martin to:

Modernize its legacy on-premises classified systems to owned-and-operated Azure Government Secret cloud tenants

Bolster cybersecurity reporting and compliance monitoring to near real-time.

Quickly create authorized mission workloads

Improve enterprise IT and research and development capabilities

Expand corporate efficiencies

Autonomously host enterprise cloud management, centralized collaboration, and

Provide governance at scale.