Northrop Grumman opens new state-of-the-art integration center in Madison
The new Enhanced Production and Integration Center builds upon Northrop Grumman's ability to scale production and manufacture critical capabilities at speed, expanding the capacity for high-rate production programs. The new facility is stationed in Madison.
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This specific facility will manage component integration for the Integrated Battle Command System. With this expansion, Northrop Grumman said production capacities will expand.
EPIC spans 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 is able to accommodate several hundred employees.
'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,' Northrop Grumman vice president and general manager, command and control & weapons integration Kenn Todorov said.
The new facility doubles the size of the previous center and aims to integrate technological and digital advancements. It also grows the company's fully digital approach to streamlining the design and build process.
Northrop Grumman said the investment into this project was $20 million. 'The facility will ensure delivery of cutting-edge solutions and meet fielding quantities and objectives for both domestic and Foreign Military Sales production,' the company said.
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.
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You can read more about the new facility on Northrop Grumman's website here.
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