Air & missile defense

Army tests network-centric missile defense platform

The Army has successfully completed an intercept test at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, using the integrated air and missile defense battle command system (IBCS), an enterprise-focused open-systems architecture developed with Northrop Grumman.
The flight test, held May 28, involved a ballistic missile acting as a threat surrogate directed at a defended asset. Using data from a Patriot radar unit, IBCS engagement operations centers established a composite track on the missile, deemed it a threat and commanded two Patriot PAC-2 interceptor missiles to destroy it.