Lockheed Martin has been awarded AI Innovator of the Year at KyribaLive 2026, recognized for its forward-thinking approach to AI in treasury and its close partnership with Kyriba as it explores the next generation of intelligent workflows.

Built on a strong Kyriba foundation and informed by participation in Kyriba’s TAI (Trusted Agentic AI) co-innovation program, Lockheed Martin is shaping a future-state model that combines its own in-house generative AI innovation with the emerging capabilities of TAI. The goal is clear: make treasury expertise more accessible, save time, and empower more users with faster, smarter decision support.

That vision is already taking shape. As Lockheed Martin continues to modernize treasury operations, the team has focused on a practical challenge: making treasury policy expertise instantly accessible across the organization. Rather than limiting that knowledge to a few experienced team members or requiring employees to manually search for answers, the team developed in-house generative AI agents that can answer policy-related questions on demand.

Turning policy knowledge into operational advantage

One of the clearest opportunities Lockheed Martin identified was within treasury policy documentation. For a large and complex organization, policy knowledge is essential, but not every employee starts with the same context or experience. By using in-house generative AI agents to surface answers from treasury policy documents, the team created a practical use case that can now inform its future TAI roadmap.

This approach saves time by reducing the need to search through lengthy documents or route routine questions through more experienced team members. It also helps create a more level playing field, giving employees across the team faster access to the same trusted knowledge, regardless of tenure or prior experience. Questions such as who can authorize a payment, what approval limits apply, how to open a bank account, and who needs to sign a request can now be answered more quickly and consistently. In other words, it brings expertise to every member of the team, not just the people who have spent years building that knowledge.

Lockheed Martin’s progress has also been shaped by collaboration across the treasury organization. Teams regularly share how they are applying AI in different areas, creating momentum and helping successful ideas spread from one function to another. That exchange of ideas is key to the company’s broader vision: not isolated power users, but a treasury organization where capability scales across the team.

From today’s innovation to tomorrow’s super-team

Lockheed Martin looks forward to the opportunity to integrate TAI into its application environment and transfer lessons learned from its in-house generative AI solutions into Kyriba. The aim is to extend the value of those early AI use cases and make expertise even more accessible across the organization.

Congratulations to Lockheed Martin for earning AI Innovator of the Year and for showing how in-house innovation, combined with Kyriba and TAI, can help treasury teams scale expertise, strengthen collaboration, and work smarter together!