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Space and Missile Defense Symposium (SMD)
August 8 – 10, 2023 | Booth #501 | 2023 Titanium Sponsor
Northrop Grumman is defining possible for some of the world’s most advanced missile defense technologies. From command systems to next generation interceptors, we’re working across multiple domains to ensure reliable, effective protection against traditional ballistic and emerging hypersonic threats.
Featured Panels & Events
Monday, August 7:
2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.: Northrop Grumman End-to-End Missile Defense Media Tour
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (Mars Hall): Ice Breaker Reception with an acoustic set from Darryl Worley
Tuesday, August 8:
9:30 a.m. – 9:55 a.m.: Cyber-Resilient Space Systems Architecture with Akram Hosain, Northrop Grumman
2:25 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.: Zero Trust Architecture for Space Systems with Akram Hosain, Northrop Grumman
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (Concert Hall): Networking Opening Reception Event
Wednesday, August 9:
10:20 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.: Generating Synthetic Kinematic and Signature Threat Data with Machine Learning Generative Models with Austin Patchin, Northrop Grumman
1:35 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Concert Hall): Industry Panel with Lisa Brown, vice president, Next Generation Interceptor, Northrop Grumman
2:00 p.m. – 2:25 p.m.: Predicting Kinematic Threat Model Allocation Feasibility with Machine Learning Binary Classifiers with Austin Patchin, Northrop Grumman
2:25 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.: Missile Defense Layer Force Multiplication Through Advanced Boresight Scheduling with Timur Alexeev and Michael Moser, Northrop Grumman
3:35 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Data Driven Modeling and Techniques (as applied to Hypersonic Flowfields and Signatures) with Charlie Stallard, Northrop Grumman
4:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.: Application of Quasi-1D Scramjet Model Couples with CFD Solver for Faster Scramjet Signature Predictions with Chris Moore, Northrop Grumman
5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. (Exhibit Floor): Salute to the Warfighter
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (BR 3, 4, and 5): Dinner and Davidson Award Presentation with keynote speaker Heidi Shyu, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering of the United States
Northrop Grumman’s Key Missile Defense Programs
Next Generation Interceptor (NGI)
Protecting America from an incoming intercontinental ballistic missile attack is a complex task involving radars, space sensors, interceptors and a robust command and control system that must work as one. In 2021, Northrop Grumman was awarded a contract to design, develop, and deliver a Next Generation Interceptor, which is charged with tracking and destroying a new sphere of enemy missile threats.
Ground-Based Midcourse Defense System (GMD) Weapons System (GWS)
Ready to Defend
GMD/GWS is the heart of the Missile Defense System and a key element of our nation’s defense against ballistic missile attacks. Northrop Grumman’s GMD Weapon System (GWS) is the integrating component of homeland defense, developing integrated battle plans based on sensor data and facilitating the warfighter’s usage of GBI’s to mitigate the threat. We provide the following GWS products:
- The GMD Fire Control is the true “brains of the operation,” providing the threat assessment and engagement planning functionality of the system.
- The GMD Communication Network provides connectivity to all GMD assets and links GMD to external sensors and systems.
- The Launch Management System is the pre-launch interface between the GMD Fire Control and the interceptor, providing control of the interceptor launch.
- The In-Flight Interceptor Communication System is the post-launch interface between the GMD Fire Control and the interceptor, providing updated target information to the kill vehicle during flight.
Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS)
Northrop Grumman is pioneering joint multi-domain command and control with IBCS. The system’s resilient, open, modular, scalable architecture is foundational to deploying a truly integrated network of all available assets in the battlespace, regardless of source, service or domain. It senses, identifies, tracks and defeats evolving air and missile threats, enabling revolutionary “multi-domain, every sensor, best effector” operations.
Counter Hypersonics
No Threat is Static.
No threat is static. Today, we face the challenge of hypersonic missiles and maneuvering reentry vehicles that can move through the atmosphere at more than five times the speed of sound. Protecting the homeland and our regional forces against these modern destructive weapons is a significant challenge. Northrop Grumman is working on groundbreaking solutions to help defeat modern hypersonic missiles in various phases of flight.
Read More: Counter Hypersonics
Interceptors and Targets
Defending against long-range ballistic missile attacks.
Building on our heritage of providing reliable launch vehicles, Northrop Grumman is a leading provider of interceptors and targets used in the test and verification of the nation’s missile defense systems and interceptor boosters employed in the defense of the homeland against long-range ballistic missile attacks.
Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC)
Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) dynamically integrates and coordinates BMDS assets to increase system performance throughout the battlespace.
Video: Taking JADC2 from Demonstration to Reality
Missile Defense News Releases
Northrop Grumman Enhances Design of Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Polar Satellites
Northrop Grumman Selected by Space Development Agency to Develop Prototype Constellation Supporting Joint All-Domain Command and Control Network
Northrop Grumman to Develop Satellites with Infrared Sensors for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer
Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace to Develop Polar-Orbiting Next-Generation Missile Warning System Sensor
Northrop Grumman Completes Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor Critical Design Review
