Northrop Grumman and Marshall Land Systems Collaborate for Cutting-Edge Command and Control Systems
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., June 5. Northrop Grumman Corporation and Marshall Land Systems signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to advance command and control hardware solutions for the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence.
Northrop Grumman and Marshall Land Systems intend to work together in support of the U.K.’s Ground Based Air Defence (GBAD) program for medium- and short-range air defense. Northrop Grumman’s leadership in air and missile defense command-and-control systems will be integrated with Marshall Land Systems versatile containerized storage and shelter solutions.
Experts:
Kenn Todorov, Vice President and General Manager, Command and Control & Weapons Integration, Northrop Grumman: “Northrop Grumman is modernizing air and missile defense around the globe with revolutionary command and control systems. The collaboration with Marshall Land Systems highlights the power of industrial partnerships and will capitalize on our combined expertise to enhance operational efficiency, readiness and resilience.”
“This memorandum of understanding with Northrop Grumman opens the door for Marshall to build on its track record of delivering for the UK’s armed forces,” said Marshall Chief Growth Officer Bob Baxter. “Marshall is at its best when working alongside industry partners, and I am confident that this will be reflected in the exceptional engineering and production support that we will provide to complement Northrop Grumman’s world-leading air and missile defence technologies.”
Details on Northrop Grumman:
IBCS is a revolutionary 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 for a single, actionable picture of the full battlespace. This ready-now capability gives warfighters more time to make decisions on how best to defeat threats and is a foundational element for enabling joint and coalition, multi-domain operations. IBCS is in production, currently fielded in Poland, and planned for deployment in Defense of Guam as part of the US Army program of record for integrated air and missile defense modernization.
Northrop Grumman is a leading global aerospace and defense technology company. Our pioneering solutions equip our customers with the capabilities they need to connect and protect the world, and push the boundaries of human exploration across the universe. Driven by a shared purpose to solve our customers’ toughest problems, our employees define possible every day.
