Integrated Battle Command System Achieves Major Milestone with First Successful European Flight Test
Warsaw, Poland – September 23, 2025 – In a major milestone for the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS), developed by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), Poland’s Ministry of National Defense conducted a successful operational exercise for its IBCS-enabled WISŁA medium-range air defense system. This achievement highlights the exceptional collaboration between Poland and the United States and Northrop Grumman's dedication to advancing allied defense modernization.
During the event conducted in Poland, IBCS successfully engaged and intercepted surrogate air-breathing targets. This marks IBCS’s first international live-fire operational exercise and underscores the WISŁA system’s readiness.
In 2018, Poland selected IBCS, the U.S. Army’s program of record for air and missile defense modernization, to serve as the centerpiece for its WISŁA medium range air defense modernization program, making Poland the first U.S. ally to acquire the system.
Poland’s Ministry of National Defense declared Initial Operational Capability for two IBCS-enabled batteries of Poland’s WISŁA medium range air defense program in 2024.
With the deployment of IBCS, Poland will continue to field one of the largest, most capable air and missile defense forces in the world, able to integrate air and missile defense across U.S. and Polish forces during combined operations.
Expert:
Kenn Todorov, vice president and general manager, command and control and weapons integration, Northrop Grumman: "This achievement not only highlights the exceptional performance and capabilities of IBCS but also demonstrates Poland’s steadfast commitment to homeland defense and the enhancement of European security. IBCS revolutionizes interoperability and integration between Poland, U.S., and allies across multiple domains, delivering advanced capabilities needed to counter complex threats. Central to this success is the robust partnership between Polish industry and Northrop Grumman."
Details on IBCS:
IBCS is a revolutionary command and control system that delivers fire control quality and battle management, unifying 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 assess and respond to threats, serving as a foundational element for enabling joint and coalition, multi-domain operations. IBCS is in production, currently fielded in Poland, and planned for fielding in Combatant Commands in Europe and the Indo-Pacific as part of the U.S. Army program of record for integrated air and missile defense modernization.
Northrop Grumman was awarded a five-year contract valued at more than $1 billion from the U.S. Army for low-rate initial production and full-rate production of IBCS, the service’s program of record for air and missile defense fire control in December 2021.
About Northrop Grumman:
With the most diversified portfolio of capabilities in missile defense, Northrop Grumman brings trusted, ready-now, next-gen technologies for end-to-end missile defeat. The company is a proven integrator who delivers this technology with speed, through advanced software development, new hardware design, material science and manufacturing at scale.
With nearly 100,000 employees and over 30 million square feet of manufacturing space – more than 500 football fields – Northrop Grumman has the capacity, scale, and agility to drive innovation at unprecedented speeds. The company’s manufacturing approaches do more than just produce; they accelerate and enhance the entire process from design and development to production and testing. Northrop Grumman has invested in U.S. infrastructure, R&D, its workforce, and its supply chain to deliver today and tomorrow’s national security needs.
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.
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