World Defense Show 2026: Northrop Grumman to present improved C2 management system
The Northrop Grumman Integrated Battle Command System is in service with Poland and the US Army with another 20 countries believed to have expressed an interest.
By combining their national analysis assets, NATO’s intelligence chiefs hope to dramatically expand their situational awareness capability.
In exercise Unified Vision 2016 based out of the Warrior Preparation Centre near Kaiserlautern in Germany, NATO has been testing its Federated Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (FED PED) concept.
This is whereby PED cells that contain up to a dozen analysts each, analyse all the information coming in from data collection platforms (such as unmanned systems, aircraft, vehicles, Special Forces, satellites) and work it into useable intelligence are pooled together or ‘federated’.
Commodore Arne-Morten Grønningsæter, head of the joint ISR programme at NATO
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The Northrop Grumman Integrated Battle Command System is in service with Poland and the US Army with another 20 countries believed to have expressed an interest.
The Thales DigitalCrew package, first unveiled at last year’s Defence IQ International Armoured Vehicles conference, is designed to merge imaging and apply a layer of decision-making and observation algorithms to support crew and other personnel.
Nomad can provide militaries with real-time intelligence, saving critical time on the battlefield.
Taurus operates alongside the Israel Defense Forces’ Orion system which supports mission management across tens of thousands of manoeuvring forces, from squad leaders to battalion commanders.
The plan for the new displays follows fresh investment in Kopin’s European facilities by Theon and an order for head-up displays in fielded aircraft, with funding from the US Department of Defense.
Persistent Systems received its largest ever single order for its MPU5 devices and other systems earlier this month and has already delivered the 50 units to the US Army’s 4th Infantry Division.