Lockheed Martin and Wipro open network centric operations centre in India

13 August 2007

The world's largest defence contractor and the US government's No.1 information technology provider, Lockheed Martin, together with Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited, has opened its network centric operations centre in Gurgaon.

Known as Ambar Jyoti, this lab will develop, demonstrate and experiment with emerging network-enabled capabilities and applications and a model simulation experimental laboratory in India.

The centre is designed to leverage Wipro's embedded, telecom and enterprise expertise in creating data centric solutions for the future. Lockheed Martin and Wipro Technologies will utilise cutting-edge technologies and real environment emulation to develop net-enabled capabilities and solutions to employ against current, real-world problems.

Ambar Jyoti will provide an opportunity for indigenous development and experimentation to identify future capabilities and requirements in network-centric operations for potential civil and military application.

After inaugurating the facility, Rao Inderjit Singh, minister of state for defence production, said that that he expected this facility to yield excellent results because it has brought together two leading giants like Lockheed Martin, world leader in defence production and Wipro, a giant in the IT industry, whose excellence is recognised globally.