AI STRATEGY
“AI ISN’ T MAGIC. IT DOESN’ T SOLVE ALL OUR PROBLEMS”
FRASER HILL, VICE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ENABLEMENT, LOCKHEED MARTIN
The second pillar focuses on model selection and security.“ You need very secure models, and they need to be relatively relevant to the use cases that you are experimenting with,” Fraser explained. Operating in a secure environment where“ adversaries are trying to find out what we’ re up to on a daily basis,” Lockheed Martin can’ t rely on publicly available AI tools.
Instead, the company has built internal capabilities like LM Text Navigator for translation and document summarisation, its own generative AI platform for secure internal use and Code Factory: an AI assistant that helped cut software testing cycles from weeks to as little as two days.
The third pillar is strategic integration and infrastructure. While experimentation might be fun, it“ won’ t result in actual business benefit,” Fraser notes. Instead, organisations need“ a clear integration strategy for AI in how you operate your business.”
BCG’ s research validates these concerns. It recently found that AI leaders“ focus on core business
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