Northrop Grumman, EADS and Indra Team to Pursue NATO Theatre Ballistic Missile Defense Contract
31 Août 2005 - 1:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
RESTON, Va., and MUNICH, Germany and MADRID, Spain, Aug. 31
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Defense industry leaders Northrop Grumman
Corporation (NYSE:NOC), EADS and Indra have announced that they
have formed an international team to pursue a systems engineering
and integration contract that is a key part of the new NATO
active-layered theatre ballistic-missile defense program. This NATO
ballistic-missile defense program will be the first to link the
assets of member nations into a multi-layered system that will
effectively protect deployed alliance forces against short- and
medium-range ballistic- missile attack. The winning team for the
NATO systems engineering and integration (SE&I) contract will
design and operate an integration test bed in Europe that will help
NATO prepare its member-nations' assets for inclusion into this
unified theatre ballistic-missile defense system. Award of the
contract is due in the second quarter of 2006. "The proliferation
of missiles of all ranges presents a significant threat to NATO
nations and alliance forces," said Gary Abercrombie, vice president
of missile-defense programs at Northrop Grumman's Mission Systems
sector. "The Northrop Grumman/EADS/Indra team offers NATO
unprecedented missile-defense integration experience that's
imperative to help NATO tie these systems together and build this
much needed defense. Together, the Northrop Grumman- led team of
highly experienced engineers will meet the complex integration and
interoperability challenge of blending these NATO assets into a
seamless system to protect its forward-deployed forces." "We are
excited about this opportunity to team with Northrop Grumman and
Indra, and bring the full capabilities of EADS to the challenge of
NATO ballistic missile defence," said Dr. Stefan Zoller, chief
executive officer of EADS Defence & Security Systems Division.
"We have a strong focus on transatlantic cooperation projects and
expect to expand this further within our defence and security
strategy." "The active-layered theatre ballistic-missile defense is
a critical program where NATO and nations' resources must be
addressed to generate an effective and very complex system
architecture," said Regino Moranchel, Indra's managing director.
"Superb blending of the Northrop Grumman team's capabilities and
successful experiences as partners and as individual contractors in
major NATO initiatives provide the best base to generate the most
adequate proposal to satisfy NATO's and nations' interest." If
chosen, the team will use the integration test bed as a platform to
integrate, test and verify the proposed architectures; develop and
evaluate theatre missile-defense concepts of operation; and test
and evaluate the different architectural capabilities as hardware
and software become available. In addition, the team will ensure
integration and interoperability among the various NATO components
of the architecture from both a technical and operational
perspective. The test bed will also be used for performance
verification, using detailed modeling and simulation tools to
ensure that the actual missile defense performance will meet the
requirements. Northrop Grumman's experience in the U.S.
missile-defense integration market is vast. For the U.S.
ground-based missile-defense shield, Northrop Grumman is developing
the highly successful battle-management system that orchestrates
each engagement and ties together the entire system. For 10 years,
Northrop has been the prime contractor at the Joint National
Integration Center, the nation's premier missile-defense wargaming
center. Northrop Grumman is also leading an industry team to
develop and test the Kinetic Energy Interceptor system -- a
land-based mobile boost/ascent-phase missile-defense capability.
Northrop Grumman is the prime contractor for the Air and Missile
Defense Workstation program, a decision dominance system that was
successful in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, where
the company developed and fielded the system for the U.S. Army from
theatre level through fire unit. EADS is a global leader in
aerospace, defence and related services. In 2004, EADS generated
revenues of EUR 31.8 billion and employed a workforce of about
110,000. EADS Defence & Security Systems Division, with
revenues of about EUR 5.4 billion in 2004 and roughly 23,000
employees across ten nations, forms the defence and security pillar
within EADS. It offers integrated systems solutions to the new
challenges confronting armed forces and homeland security units. It
is active in the areas of military aircraft, missile systems,
intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems with manned
and unmanned aerial vehicles, battlefield management systems,
defence electronics, sensors and avionics and related services.
Indra, the leading Spanish Defence Systems and Information
Technology company, delivers C4ISR and air defence systems and
equipment to national, NATO and international customers. Indra's
capabilities include systems development, integration and
engineering. Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, based in Reston,
Va., is a global integrator of complex, mission-enabling systems
and services for defense, intelligence and civil government
markets. The sector's technology leadership and expertise spans
areas such as strategic systems, including intercontinental
ballistic missiles; missile defense; intelligence, surveillance,
and reconnaissance; command and control; technical services; and
training. 0805-290 DATASOURCE: Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
CONTACT: Marynoele R. Benson of Northrop Grumman, +1-703-741-7723,
; or Stephanie Chalmers of EADS, +49 (89) 607.21918, ; or Luisa
Gomez Gonzalez-Solis of Indra, +34-91-480 97 17, lmgomez@.indra.es
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