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Lockheed Martin Joins Northrop Grumman’s Integrated Air And Missile Defense Battle Command System Team


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Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) announced today that Lockheed Martin Corporation has joined its team pursuing the U.S. Army’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS) program.

Northrop Grumman is bidding as the prime contractor for this procurement, which is being managed by the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Program Office, Program Executive Office for Missiles and Space in Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin joins the Boeing Company as Northrop Grumman’s principal teammates on the IBCS prime team competition.

“We are proud to have Lockheed Martin join our world-class team,” said Frank Moore, vice president of Missile Defense Division for Northrop Grumman’s Mission Systems sector. “Our team will take advantage of Lockheed Martin’s extensive air defense experience and will also leverage our joint efforts on the Ballistic Missile Defense C2BMC System. With Lockheed Martin on our team, we will be able to ensure that the IBCS will fully integrate the air and missile defense systems on today’s battlefield and provide the best open systems architecture for future growth.”

A request for proposals for the IBCS competition is expected to be released by the end of April.

The IBCS is an Army modernization program that will establish a network-centric system-of-systems solution for integrating sensors, shooters, and battle management, command, control, communications and intelligence systems for Army air and missile defense. This effort will focus on providing the warfighter an open architecture that will allow any sensor and any shooter to be plugged into the integrated fire control network. This will allow the Army to take a “best-of-breed” approach to providing capabilities to the warfighter. IBCS is the first step toward a joint integrated air and missile defense capability.

“Lockheed Martin brings a wealth of experience in Air and Missile Defense command and control and system integration on programs such as PAC-3, THAAD, LEAPP and MEADS to the Northrop Grumman IBCS team,” said Mike Trotsky, vice president of Air & Missile Defense for Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. “This IBCS team possesses the critical skills necessary to produce an integrated operations center that can direct air and missile defense forces in the future network-centric operational structure.”



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