Defense News:
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army’s future missile defense battle manager was put to the test across long distances to prove it’s capable of playing an integral role in multidomain operations, according to Northrop Grumman, the system’s developer.
The Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System, or IBCS, showed its ability to “scale up and network” over a large swath of terrain spanning from Texas to New Mexico to Alabama in a U.S. Army-led test, Northrop announced in an Aug. 15 statement.
IBCS is the linchpin for the service’s future Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense system, or AIAMD, but has seen schedule slips to reach initial operational capability by several years, which has been partly due to the service expanding the mission for the command-and-control system beyond what was originally intended.
