Complex Systems

By mimicking complex systems in nature and society, ATL can capture functional models through which to exploit applications of advanced simulation concepts for defense applications.

Objectives

Our objective is to capture functional, valid models of highly complex systems and exploit applications of advanced simulation concepts for defense applications and to provide a competitive edge to other Lockheed Martin businesses.

Key Technologies

• Complexity science: Analysis and design of emergent effects for systems, organizations, or societies with many interacting autonomous entities. Relevant technologies include agent-based models and system dynamics modeling.
• Predictive simulation: Faster-than-real-time simulation, enabling higher fidelity support for command and control plan evaluation and correlation to real-world events.
• Game technology applications: Exploitation of commercial gaming for behavior capture, learning, and training applications.
• Prediction technology for technology refresh: Concepts, tools, and infrastructures to optimize technology-refresh strategies for major military systems that are in development and sustainment phases.
• Smart product model: Extension of web-based, commercial, product-information systems with smart behaviors to express front-end conceptual designs, and Wizards for automatic generation of complex life-cycle applications.
• Predictive program management: Predict future program-plan phenomena resulting from dependency relationships between elements of programs (tasks, systems elements, organizations) that introduce nonlinear effects

We are continuing to develop, implement, and transition applications of these technologies through our investment program, defense contracts, and cooperative programs with other Lockheed Martin businesses.

Applications and Transition Opportunities

Examples of our complexity science models include logistics; force-on-force analyses; and multiple, autonomous-system models.

Technology-Refresh initiatives include:

• Technology Refresh for Affordable Navy Systems (TRENT) through Office of Naval Research and the Aging Systems Program through the Defense Logistics Agency. Contractor lifetime-support requirements on future systems are creating many transition opportunities for this technology within Lockheed Martin.
• Smart Product Model technology, primarily developed on the DD21 program, is being transitioned to several Lockheed Martin. It is the core of Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors-Eagan Real Time Supportability System, will be leveraged extensively on Lockheed Martin Missiles and fie Control's simulation-based-acquisition initiatives, and is the core of the Commercial Space Systems initial Requirements Cell prototype.
• Predictive Program Management was demonstrated as a conceptual prototype for the Missile Defense Agency, and is being considered for a pilot on a Lockheed Martin program as well as a technology of interest for an internal thrust in advanced, program-management concepts.

Complex Systems is one of several Business Areas for the Embedded Processing Laboratory