Taking a Systems Engineering Approach to Address Sustainability

Sustainability is a key element of Lockheed Martin's business model for innovation and growth and a commonly concerned attribute during product design and improvement. One of the sustainability concerned areas is environmental sustainability. This work summarizes the recent practices of taking a systems engineering approach to ensure technical excellence and develop customer centric solutions on the journey of pursuing environmental sustainability of product and manufacturing process. Continued improvement by leveraging Model Based Systems Engineering approach is recommended.