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Lockheed Martin and Keysight Test 5G Solutions for Aerospace and Defence Communications
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November 19, 2021 News

 

Keysight Technologies, Inc., a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, recently announced a collaboration to advance 5G in support of mission-critical communications for aerospace and defence applications. The companies are actively collaborating on a 5G.MIL™ testbed that Lockheed Martin teams will use to advance 5G capabilities for multiple applications.

“Lockheed Martin is leveraging expertise in the commercial sector to scale, adapt and integrate 5G technology rapidly and affordably across mission-critical operations across land, sea, air, space and cyber domains”, said Dan Rice, Vice President for 5G.MIL Programs at Lockheed Martin. “Keysight’s end-to-end 5G test platforms, widely used commercially, provide an opportunity to develop customised solutions that meet the stringent requirements of the defence industry”.

5G brings high-speed data rates, connection density, trustworthiness and low latencies to wireless communications networks. The collaboration advances Lockheed Martin’s 5G.MIL vision to support secure and resilient connectivity for defence and national security applications. It also aims to adapt commercial 5G technology to meet tactical communications needs in terrestrial and nonterrestrial networks operated by the Department of Defence. Working with Keysight on automated test cases to evaluate cybersecurity and vulnerabilities across all 5G components and interfaces, Lockheed Martin is also able to determine the cyberresiliency of its 5G-enabled solutions across the lifecycle, from development through operations.

“Deployment of future-proof, seamless and secure communication links serving operations across ground, sea and air depends on the successful integration of 5G, satellite, unmanned aerial vehicle, Artificial Intelligence and cloud technologies”, said Vince Nguyen, General Manager for Aerospace Defence Government Solutions at Keysight Technologies. “Leveraging Keysight’s portfolio of flexible, scalable and fully automated test, measurement, verification and optimisation tools, Lockheed Martin has implemented the most advanced testbed for 5G and hybrid networks that we have seen in the aerospace and defence industry”.

The testbed, which reached initial operational capability in July, will help Lockheed Martin’s 5G.MIL teams quickly verify interoperability and performance with a wide range of 5G assets and simulate reliable and secure communications. Since that time, both companies have worked together to emulate, test and validate 5G Open Radio Access Network and Non-Terrestrial Network communications. Through a strategic collaboration memorandum of understanding, the companies will incorporate additional capabilities to support emerging research and development needs and to remain current with the latest 5G advancements and beyond.

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