Northrop Grumman Corp. has opened a component integration center for the Integrated Battle Command System in Madison, a $20 million investment. The system will support the U.S. Army’s accelerated modernization plan for air and missile defense.
The new Enhanced Production and Integration Center (EPIC) builds on Northrop Grumman’s ability to scale production and manufacture critical components at speed, expanding capacity for high-rate production programs.
EPIC doubles the size of the previous center. It has 129,500 square feet of flexible production space and totals 175,500 square feet of covered production space. In addition, it also has 35,000 square feet of office space, accommodating several hundred employees, growing the company’s economic impact in Alabama.
“Our investment in American manufacturing with this new facility enables us to continue supporting critical modernization efforts such as production capabilities like IBCS at scale and speed,” said Kenn Todorov, vice president and general manager, command and control & weapons integration, Northrop Grumman. “With this investment, we’re doubling our integration space and significantly enhancing our storage and classified testing capabilities, ensuring America leads the world in military strength.”
IBCS is a command-and-control system that unifies current and future systems regardless of source, service or domain. Through its network-enabled, modular, open and scalable architecture, IBCS fuses sensor data, giving warfighters a picture of the full battlespace.
IBCS is in production, currently fielded in Poland, and planned for fielding in combatant commands in Europe and the Indo-Pacific to include Guam as part of the U.S. Army program for integrated air and missile defense modernization.
