Lockheed Martin secures missile defense system pact

Lockheed Martin has secured a $157 million Missile Defense Agency contract to upgrade Command, Control, Battle Management & Communications (C2BMC) system capability.

Officials indicated the scope of work would include augmenting C2BMC’S engagement support capability for the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system protecting the nation from long-range ballistic missile attacks.

“C2BMC is a 21st-century battle management system, with a global infrastructure capable of supporting many different types of missions,” Mark Johnson, director of Missile Defense Solutions for Lockheed Martin, said. “As customers look for innovations to advance joint all-domain operations, they can look to C2BMC.”

The GMD system includes silo-based interceptors, connections to sensors on land and sea, distributed fire control, and launch support systems.

The GMD system presently engages a threat using single source data from multiple radars. The next C2BMC upgrade is dubbed Spiral 8.2-7 and is slated to provide GMD with a single, real-time, composite picture of threat system tracks via the correlation and fusing of data from a broader set of sensors that includes satellites, ground, and ship-based radars.

C2BMC, which was initially implemented 17 years ago, serves as the first operationally deployed Multi-Domain Systems, integrating systems and sensors operating in space, on land, and at sea.

The network operates continually to support real-world operations at more than 30 locations globally, including U.S. Strategic, Northern, European, Indo-Pacific, Space and Central Commands.