NGC's New Air and Missile Defense Integration Center Expands Manufacturing Capacity in Alabama

April 14, 2025

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has opened a new state-of-the-art integration center in Madison, Alabama, in support of the United States Army’s accelerated modernization plan for air and missile defense. The new Enhanced Production and Integration Center (EPIC) builds on the company’s ability to scale production and manufacture critical capabilities at speed, expanding capacity for high rate production programs.

• The new facility will manage component integration for the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS).
• With this expansion, production capacity for the ready-now IBCS command and control system can increase up to 96 Engagement Operation Centers, 96 Integrated Collaborative Environments and 192 Integrated Fire Control Network relays each year.
• EPIC boasts more than 129,500 square feet of flexible production space and totals 175,500 square feet of covered production space.
• The facility also has 35,000 square feet of office space and can accommodate over several hundred employees, growing Northrop Grumman’s economic impact in Alabama.

Expert:
Kenn Todorov, vice president and general manager, command and control & weapons integration, Northrop Grumman: “Our investment in American manufacturing with this new facility enables us to continue supporting critical modernization efforts such as producing capabilities like IBCS at scale and speed. With this investment, we’re doubling our integration space and significantly enhancing our storage and classified testing capabilities, ensuring America leads the world in military strength.”

Details on EPIC:
EPIC doubles the size of the previous center and will integrate technological and digital advancements to drive innovation. This addition grows the company’s fully digital approach to streamlining the design and build process.

Northrop Grumman’s investment of $20 million comes at a critical time when air and missile defense is a high priority for the U.S. and its allies. The facility will ensure delivery of cutting-edge solutions and meets fielding quantities and objectives for both domestic and Foreign Military Sales production.

Details on IBCS:
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 fielding in  Combatant Commands in Europe and the Indo-Pacific to include Guam as part of the U.S. Army program of record for integrated air and missile defense modernization.

Source : Northrop Grumman Corporation