"the following is a conversation with keoki Jackson he's the CTO of Lockheed Martin a company that through his long history has created some of the most incredible engineering Marvel's human beings hav..."

"because in part Lockheed Martin builds military systems that operate in a complicated world that often does not have easy solutions in the grey area between good and evil I hope one day this world wil..."

"okie Jackson I read several books on Lockheed Martin recently my favorite in particulars by Ben rich called skunkworks personal memoir it gets a little edgy at times but from that I was reminded that ..."

"junkie junkie that's why I came to MIT that's really what took me ultimately to Lockheed Martin and I grew up in so Lockheed Martin for example has been essentially at the heart of every planetary mis..."

"it's something that I'd hoped to see so maybe you can give a little bit an overview of the Lockheed Martin's partner with a few years ago with Boeing to work with the DoD and NASA to build launch syst..."

"surface and back again and so that's sort of that near-term and I say near-term in the next decade or so vision starting off with you know stated objective by this administration to get back to the mo..."

"we've got osiris-rex which is a mission to the asteroid Bennu so the spacecraft is out there right now I'm basically a year mapping activity to map the entire surface of that asteroid in great detail ..."

"it doesn't really land almost it's it's a very short landing Wow that's that's incredible so what is uh in those talk a little bit more about space eh what's the role of the human in all of this what ..."

"best of the human to respond to to changing circumstances and rely on the best of AI capabilities to monitor these you know this almost infinite number of data points and correlations and data points ..."

"you're bringing into that loop a system depending on how its developed that may be non-deterministic it may be learned as it goes in fact we anticipate that it will be learning as it goes and so that ..."

"systems they're going to be part of the design for all of our future systems and so maybe I should take a step back and say the way we define autonomy so we talk we talk about autonomy essentially sys..."

"everything that we develop I the kinds of things that Lockheed Martin does you know a lot of times our safety of life critical kinds of missions you think about aircraft for example and so we require ..."

"think it starts with the culture right which is not necessarily something that a is taught in school or B is something that would come here depending on what kind of software you're developing it may ..."

"space but today you know there's a there's a lot of work to really try to bound the system to understand predictable ways and then have this culture of continuous inquiry and skepticism and questionin..."

"passengers the people on the ground involved and you know it's also a huge business and economic setback as well I mean you know we've seen that it's impacting essentially the trade balance of the US ..."

"so that didn't happen by accident it was through the regulatory agencies FAA the airframe manufacturers really working on a system to identify root causes and driving them out so maybe we can take a s..."

"combat system this is basically the integrated air and missile defense system for the u.s. and allied fleets and so protects you know Carrier Strike groups for example from incoming ballistic missile ..."

"activity another one the Thad program so Thad this is the theater high altitude area defense this is to protect you know relatively broad areas against sophisticated ballistic missile threats and so n..."

"we saw you know maybe the first public use of these back in the in the first Gulf War with the Patriot systems and these are these are the kinds of things that Lockheed Martin delivers and there's a l..."

"biggest most impressive milestones of innovations if you look at stealth I would have called you crazy if you said that's possible at the time and supersonic and hypersonic so traveling it first of al..."

"these incredible things and you know we listed off a number that you can you brought up stuff and I mean this this whole you know I wish I could have seen been rich with a ball-bearing you know rollin..."

"wise there what's the broadly sort of it the stuff you speak about I'll stick to what's in been Rich's but obviously the geometry of how radar gets reflected and the kinds of materials that either ref..."

"today and so there's a real sense of urgency you hear it from folks like the Undersecretary of defense for research and engineering dr. Mike Griffin and others in the department of defense that hypers..."

"very excited about so I I would anticipate we'll be hearing more about that in the future from our customers and I've actually haven't read much about this probably you can't talk about much of it at ..."

"it's a good question I think the public can see enough of including students who may be in grade school high school college today to understand the kinds of really hard problems that we work on and I ..."

"give you an example I had the privilege to work and lead our GPS programs for some time and that was a case where he actually worked on a program that touches billions of people every day and so when ..."

"more visible to the public yeah I think autonomy especially in flight is super exciting do you do you see if a day here we go back into philosophy future when most fighter jets will be highly autonomo..."

"you know the control systems are such that you really have dialed out the variability and what that comes with all the environmental condition wearing it out so my point is to certain extent that worl..."

"cars but is there any exploration of perception of for example detecting G lock that the pilot has is out so as opposed to perceiving the external environment to infer that the pilot is out but actual..."

"pilots and and have if you can think of it almost as like a dial of the level of autonomy that you want but able so it's running in the background at all times and able to pick up tasks whether it's y..."

"a difficult question from the a space that I would love it if we're able to comment so a lot of this autonomy in AI you've mentioned just now as this empowering effect that one is the last resort it k..."

"concern when we're talking about military applications that too much control and decision-making capabilities giving too after AI well I don't see it happening today and in fact this is something from..."

"things and then you add on top of that the North Korean threat has certainly not gone away there's a lot going on in the Middle East with Iran in particular and we see this global terrorism threat has..."

"in general has a lot to benefit from just decreasing from thirty two years to one second as opposed to on the scale of seconds and minutes and hours making decisions that humans are better at thinking..."

"going to treat AI and autonomous systems that it's not a free-for-all and like there are rules of war and rules of engagement with other kinds of systems think chemical weapons biological weapons we n..."

"different character today you know we used to think of weapons of mass destruction in terms of nuclear chemical biological and today we have a cyber threat we've seen examples of the use of cyber weap..."

"strategic deterrence yeah I know that Lockheed is involved in cyber I saw I studied that you mentioned that it's an incredibly a nuclear almost seems easier than cyber because there's so many attack b..."

"phrase of course and and I think it is worth pointing out as you noted that Lockheed Martin we are in a number of commercial businesses from energy to space to commercial aircraft and so I wouldn't an..."

"in defense defensive capabilities the other thing I'd note for military and defensive systems it's it's not quite a free market right we don't sell to you know people on the street and that warrants a..."

"needs yeah because building those system is very costly it's very little room for mistake I mean it's yeah just been Rich's book and so on just tells the story it's never I can just reading it if you'..."

"is this explosion of new capabilities that have been driven by things like the you know the massive increase in computing power things like the massive increase in comms capabilities advanced and addi..."