Washington, Rajab 06, 1439, March 23, 2018, SPA -- On the sidelines of the current visit of His Royal Highness Prince Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Crown Prince, Vice President of the Council of Ministers and Defense Minister, the Saudi Federation for Cyber Security and Programming signed a memorandum of understanding with Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin is a world-class aviation, defense and information security company. Primarily, the company focuses on research, design, development and manufacturing sophisticated technologies and software systems. The MoU aims at creating a partnership in cyber security and programming. It will focus on developing and increasing capabilities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Cyber security and programming, and combating intrusions and viruses. The Company will provide its experience and knowledge in training Saudi talents, specialized in Cyber security and programming. The MoU was co-signed by the Federation’s Deputy Chairman Abdullah Sharaf Alghamdi, on behalf of the Federation's Chairman of the Board of Directors Saud bin Abdullah Al-Gahtani, who is an advisor at the Royal Court, and Alan Chinoda the CEO of Lockheed Martin. In remarks following the signing ceremony, Al-Qahtani said the agreement with a leading international company such as Lockheed Martin, which is concerned in aerospace, defense, security, and the most important of which are cybersecurity, would be a valuable partnership. This will support the Kingdom's youths, who are specialized in cyber security and programming, and will show them the seriousness and how these systems and infrastructure can be targeted. So, they can be protected through specialized and useful systems, which will contribute to raising the awareness, protection, and realization. -- SPA 00:01 LOCAL TIME 21:01 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w649329