Case Study: Lockheed Martin achieves secure, scalable process enforcement for the F-35 program with Serena Software's Dimensions

F-35 Lightning II Flies High with Serena Dimensions

Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II program—a multinational, decade‑long effort involving more than 1,000 developers, roughly 19 million lines of code and partners in nine countries—needed a way to manage complex software development under strict ITAR controls while ensuring consistent processes, security, and traceability across a distributed team.

To address this, Lockheed Martin standardized on Serena Dimensions to enforce hundreds of development and change‑management workflows, embed group‑specific procedures, and provide custom reporting, version control, CM auditing, and enhanced security for remote, multi‑company users. The deployment reduced manual oversight and micromanagement, sped training, improved auditability and process compliance, and became a core configuration‑management backbone for the program and other aircraft projects.

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