How Lockheed Martin Scaled FDD Across 10M SF to Drive Ongoing Commissioning

In this NexusCon 2025 presentation, Mike Robbins of Lockheed Martin’s Rotary and Mission Systems shares how his team deployed fault detection and diagnostics across six large sites totaling nearly 10 million square feet. Moderated by Rory Barnwell of DLR Group, the conversation focuses on what happens after the pilot succeeds—when the real challenge becomes adoption, engagement, and long-term relevance.

Mike walks through how Lockheed Martin built an FDD program using SkySpark, what worked in getting sites connected, and where progress has stalled despite technical success. The presentation tees up the uncomfortable reality that finding faults is the easy part—changing behavior is not.

Behind the paywall, you’ll hear how Lockheed Martin used simple internal mechanisms like “golden nuggets” to translate FDD value for leadership, why engagement still drops off even with proven savings, and what surprised Mike about user resistance. He breaks down what didn’t scale as expected, how alarm and fault fatigue crept back in, and why severity ranking and non-traditional use cases (like digitizing paper logs) became critical.

This recording matters for any FM, EM, or OT leader running—or inheriting—a mature FDD program who’s worried about stagnation, loss of visibility, or being asked “what are you actually doing now that everything works?”

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