Lockheed Martin taps silicon photonics tech to build better weapons of war
Lockheed Martin, which has a long history of developing military hardware, including the infamous SR-71 Blackbird, says Ayar Lab’s chiplet tech could eventually find its way into multiple Department of Defense systems to capture, digitalize, transport, and process spectral information at lower latency and across longer distances compared to existing electrical interconnects.
Lockheed Martin didn’t elaborate on the specific use cases for the tech, it did note military sensing applications and radio frequency processing. Previoushave cited the use of optical interconnects in digital beamforming radar applications to support larger volumes of radio frequency inputs. However, military sensing encompasses a broad array of tech commonly used in surveillance equipment like drones, spy satellites, and radar arrays — all areas Lockheed Martin is heavily invested in.
“As the complexity and amount of data grows on the battlefield, faster decision-making is essential. New innovative system architectures, coupled with AI and machine learning techniques, are needed for our customers’ mission success,” said Lockheed Martin CTO Steve Walker, in a“Ayar Labs’ optical interconnect solution provides the necessary technology to process spectral information with greater speed and lower latency for next-generation system designs.
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