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Northrop Grumman Successful In First Real Time Cueing For Airborne IR BMDS Sensor

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] yesterday said it successfully completed the first test to demonstrate real-time cueing of the Airborne Infrared (ABIR) sensor for the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) with the Integrated Sensor Manager (ISM). The company's ISM completed the early intercept proof-of-concept exercise by participating as an associated operation in the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) FTX-17 test on July 8. ISM is a prototype capability Northrop Grumman is developing for MDA to enable more accurate tracking and threat identification for…

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