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Air Force

Critical Design Review Successful For Northrop Grumman IBCS

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] yesterday said it has successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Army's Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS). The CDR provided an in-depth assessment, by a government team of experts and managers, that the IBCS design is programmatically and technically realistic and attainable. The successful review determined the IBCS detailed design satisfies cost, schedule and performance requirements and demonstrates the maturity for proceeding with full-scale fabrication, assembly, integration and test. In…

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