Oct 14, 2022

CENIC Welcomes Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center

CENIC is pleased to welcome Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center to its community of leading-edge R&E network users.

“We’re looking forward to seeing what we can do with this network,” said Dr. Neal Hurlburt, Senior Manager of Space Sciences and Instrumentation. “We know this connection will allow us to collaborate more closely with our customers and partners.”

Hurlburt noted that his team of over a dozen scientists is part of the Space Sciences and Instrumentation directorate within the Advanced Technology Center, which pursues a variety of missions that engage founding members of CENIC, including Stanford and other universities as well as NASA and NOAA.

“We’re working with NASA and NOAA on instruments to make space weather predictions,” said Hurlburt, emphasizing the increasing importance of this topic as we expand activities in space.

The Space Sciences and Instrumentation Directorate also designed and built the Near Infrared Camera, or NIRCAM, on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that has already provided breathtaking images of distant galaxies and will play a major role in revolutionizing our understanding of the history of the universe in the years to come.

“Our heliophysics projects collect multiple Terabytes of data of images of the sun daily, such as that shown from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), which we then share with our major science partners in Japan. Norway and elsewhere,” said Hurlburt. “The connection with CENIC opens up the door, making this much easier than in the past.”

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