Northrop Grumman is to help the US Missile Defence Agency (MDA) integrate and demonstrate an early-intercept capability.

Early Intercept will demonstrate an integrated architecture of early warning sensors, regional fire control and battle manager systems and secure communications.

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The integrated architecture will enable current systems to engage threats earlier in the battle space to improve protection against large raids and facilitate shoot-look-shoot opportunities.

Northrop will conduct initial tasks to design and develop an experimental, plug-and-play battle management, command and control architecture.

With the architecture, MDA will be able to assess the capability of candidate sensors to aid in early intercept against medium and intermediate-range ballistic missiles by two of the MDA’s missile defence interceptors – the Standard missile-3 and the ground-based interceptor.

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