SEOUL – June 22, 2025 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and Hanwha Systems signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore and collaborate on developing and offering solutions for modernizing air and missile defense capabilities.
Under the MOU, Northrop Grumman and Hanwha Systems intend to initiate a series of technical interchanges and collaborative engineering assessments centered around their distinctive defense technologies. The objective is to identify and pursue the development of innovative solutions that improve performance and enhance the effectiveness of current and future integrated air and missile defense to keep pace with the evolving threat and enable effective multi-domain operations.
Combining Northrop Grumman's proven expertise in air and missile defense command and control systems, embodied by the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS), with Hanwha Systems' specialized defense system capabilities (including sensors, weapons, and C4I technology), this collaboration anticipates significant progress in the development and delivery of cutting edge air and missile defense solutions.
Mr. Sungkyun Park, vice president and business director of Defense electronics division, Hanwha Systems, and Kenn Todorov, vice president and general manager, command & control and weapons integration, Northrop Grumman. (Photo Credit: Northrop Grumman)
Expert:
Kenn Todorov, vice president and general manager, command & control and weapons integration, Northrop Grumman: “This MOU with Hanwha demonstrates our strong desire to collaborate with Korean industry in exploring opportunities to provide innovative and cost-effective air and missile defense solutions that enhance Korean homeland defense.”
Details on Northrop Grumman’s IAMD Command and Control Capabilities:
IBCS is a revolutionary mission command fire control system that unifies current and future systems regardless of source, service or domain. Through its network-enabled, modular, open and scalable architecture, IBCS gives warfighters capabilities not previously available by fusing 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 U.S. Army program of record for integrated air and missile defense modernization. IBCS has demonstrated its ability to integrate with a wide range of sensors and shooters, including Patriot, Sentinel, F-35, Common Anti-Air Modular Missile, Giraffe, Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) and other sovereign capabilities.
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