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Testing Confirms New Italian Sensor Compatible With NATO Ballistic Missile Defense

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, October 11th, 2012

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A large scale multinational test in September confirmed a new Italian sensor is compatible with NATO’s ballistic missile defense (BMD) architecture. The successful Ensemble Test 2 was conducted by the NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency from Sept. 25-27. It confirmed the compatibility of a new Italian sensor with the alliance’s BMD architecture. Ensemble tests are to reduce technical risks to the program as various sensors, weapon and communication systems are incrementally added to the defense architecture. The test was…

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