Justin Taylor, Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Lockheed Martin

Justin Taylor is the vice president of artificial intelligence at Lockheed Martin and is a Potomac Officers Club member. He oversees Lockheed’s AI and machine learning development and implementation. He also leads the company’s AI Center.

Taylor has been holding his current position since May 2021 and has been with Lockheed since 2000, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Before taking on his current role, Taylor was the director of engineering of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works. In this position, he was responsible for developing ISR program systems and was the independent research and development program manager for joint all-domain operations.

Other positions that Taylor has held at Lockheed include senior program manager of the Skunk Works Mission Systems Roadmaps R&D organization, enterprise open systems architecture program manager for the Skunk Works Common Systems portfolio and embedded software engineering staff at the company’s Simulation and Systems Integration Labs.

He is also an active member of the advisory council of The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Computer Science. As a council member, he helps the chairman accomplish the college’s academic and societal mission. Taylor has been a member of the advisory council since May 2019.

The Lockheed veteran holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from The University of Texas at Austin.

Lockheed Martin offers a variety of fixed-wing and rotor-wing aircraft and aircraft-related services for military, first response and national security uses. It also provides autonomy, AI, hypersonics development, hypersonics, JADO and situational awareness services.

The company is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and has multiple offices within and outside the U.S.