NGC Lab To Develope Prototype For Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System

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"The IBCS Protolab gives the company a significant lead in developing a fully operational IBCS, offering the Army a head start in getting this necessary capability to the warfighter sooner, rather than later."

by Staff Writers
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 15, 2007
Northrop Grumman has created a prototypical Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS), residing in a Huntsville laboratory, that could potentially save the U.S. Army both time and money in building a fully operational system.

IBCS will be an Army transformational program that will establish a network-centric system-of-systems solution for integrating sensors, shooters, and battle management, command, control, communications and intelligence systems (BMC4I) for Army air and missile defense.

IBCS will allow warfighters to utilize the right sensors and the right weapon systems commanded and controlled via a common battle command system and will be the first step toward a Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense capability.

"IBCS will vastly improve the number of sensors and shooters available to the warfighter in any given situation, allowing him to tailor specific capabilities to any highly dynamic threat environment using best-of-breed components plugged into an open-architecture," said Frank Moore, vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman's Missile Defense Division.

"Northrop Grumman has already developed an initial version of this capability in our IBCS Protolab. We've pulled together and integrated all of the elements -- command post, the common software, middleware, modules, servers, laptops -- everything needed to hit the ground running."

"There's still a lot of work to be done, but Northrop Grumman has made a significant investment to develop the IBCS Protolab -- an actual, open architecture, working model of IBCS -- which could ultimately translate into major savings of both time and money for the Army," said Ed McAlister, IBCS program manager for Northrop Grumman.

The Integrated Air and Missile Defense Program Office, which was established in August 2006 and is part of the Program Executive Office for Missiles and Space in Huntsville, will manage the IBCS procurement.

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