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Army Missile Defense Brain Passes Complex Test Of Threat-Tracking Capability

Tuesday, January 16th, 2018

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The Army’s open architecture missile defense brain recently demonstrated its ability to track and defend against an array of aerial threats during the most complex test of the system to date.Soldiers from Fort Sill, Okla., used Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS), to direct Army air and missile defense sensors and weapons to conduct complex, multi-domain air defense operations as part of a higher-echelon joint task force with the Marine Corps.Following an initial phase…

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