The best inventions are born out of necessity. Lockheed Martin, in its work with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), faced an immense challenge: meeting the strictest security, governance, and transparency requirements while delivering advanced AI capabilities. Nothing in the market met these extreme standards. AI needed to be mission-critical, defense-grade, and built for high-assurance environments.

To solve this, Lockheed Martin’s AI Center of Excellence (LAIC) developed the AI Factory—a secure, scalable, and modular AI platform designed to deliver state-of-the-art AI solutions with full traceability, governance, and security. This isn’t experimental or theoretical AI—this is AI that has been tested and proven in the highest-stakes, most mission-critical environments.

As the global AI landscape has rapidly evolved into an AI arms race, Lockheed Martin recognized that these capabilities shouldn’t be confined to defense alone. The decision was made to commercialize the AI Factory—bringing its unique, defense-grade AI solutions to both regulated industries and the broader U.S. government.

Today, Astris AI is the result of that vision. This is not new—this is tried, tested, and proven AI that has already met the toughest operational and security demands. Our AI Factory transforms the chaos of AI adoption into real, secure, and scalable value—empowering enterprises to deploy mission-critical AI with the highest level of security, compliance, and operational integrity.

Built for defense. Proven in action. Now available to all. This is AI you can trust.