{"id":54540,"date":"2019-10-04T11:21:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T17:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sai2.wpengine.com\/blog\/lockheed-martin\/"},"modified":"2024-10-05T17:22:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T23:22:38","slug":"lockheed-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaledagile.com\/blog\/lockheed-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin &#8211; Adoption of SAFe for Agile Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Presented at the 2019 Global SAFe Summit, San Diego Oct. 2, 2019, The F-16 Fighting Falcon is the world\u2019s most successful, combat-proven multi-role fighter with approximately 3,000 operational F-16s in service today in 25 countries. In 2014, new production orders were drying out, and the F-16 production line was in danger of shutting down. Our solution to that problem was the adoption of SAFe to streamline the F-16 Product Development and Engineering in 2015. We overcame a lot of challenges along the way, and made rapid progress initially, but have plateaued. That should come as no surprise though. Our limited implementation showed us limited results. But we are turning this ship around! This year we have really taken stock of our Agile Transformation and implemented several ground-breaking initiatives using SAFe that are changing our landscape. Lockheed has now started a new F-16 production facility in Greenville, South Carolina that is producing F-16s expected to operate to 2070 and beyond!&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:899,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;4&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:65535},&quot;10&quot;:0,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0}\">Presented at the 2019 Global SAFe Summit, San Diego Oct. 2, 2019, The F-16 Fighting Falcon is the world\u2019s most successful, combat-proven multi-role fighter with approximately 3,000 operational F-16s in service today in 25 countries. In 2014, new production orders were drying out, and the F-16 production line was in danger of shutting down. Our solution to that problem was the adoption of SAFe to streamline the F-16 Product Development and Engineering in 2015. We overcame a lot of challenges along the way, and made rapid progress initially, but have plateaued. That should come as no surprise though. Our limited implementation showed us limited results. But we are turning this ship around! This year we have really taken stock of our <a href=\"https:\/\/scaledagile.com\/\">Agile Transformation<\/a> and implemented several ground-breaking initiatives using SAFe that are changing our landscape. Lockheed has now started a new F-16 production facility in Greenville, South Carolina that is producing F-16s expected to operate to 2070 and beyond!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed Flying the F-16 into the Future with SAFe: Evolving the Falcon Factory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"184172,139603,141431,174886,138797,141584","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[381,561],"tags":[],"industry":[427,428],"role":[],"sizes":[],"country":[],"topic":[],"region":[],"ppma_author":[463],"class_list":["post-54540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-customer-story","category-resources","post_format-post-format-video","industry-aerospace","industry-defense","author-regina"],"acf":{"page_header_background":false,"page_header_title":"","page_header_content":"","show_on_blog":false,"customer_logo":false,"display_image_on_post_page":true,"is_featured":false,"add_intercom":true},"has_blocks":false,"block_data":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.6 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lockheed Martin - Adoption of SAFe to the F-16 - Scaled Agile<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The F-16 production line was in danger of shutting down and the adoption of SAFe to the Product Development helped it to sustain.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scaledagile.com\/blog\/lockheed-martin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lockheed Martin - Adoption of SAFe for Agile Transformation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The F-16 production line was in danger of shutting down and the adoption of SAFe to the Product Development helped it to sustain.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/scaledagile.com\/blog\/lockheed-martin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Scaled Agile\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ScaledAgile\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-04T17:21:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-05T23:22:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/scaledagile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/SAI_temp-logo_dteal.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1295\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"387\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lindsey Bohland\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scaledagile.com\/blog\/lockheed-martin\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scaledagile.com\/blog\/lockheed-martin\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lindsey Bohland\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scaledagile.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f00c0335de0294e4008e787e3f617153\"},\"headline\":\"Lockheed Martin &#8211; 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