Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System

[1]: p.42  The IBCS is designed to link radars across thousands of miles and shoot down short-, medium-, and intermediate-range ballistic missiles in their terminal phase.

[18][19] IBCS engagement stations will be able to control Army air-defense systems such as Patriot and THAAD, directing radar positioning and suggesting recommended launchers.

[1]: 42  In January 2018, Lt. Gen. James H. Dickinson and Richard Formica suggested that a single unit might operate strategic fires and air/missile defense.

[27][28] On 30 August 2019 at Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll, THAAD Battery E-62 intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile using a radar that was well-separated from the interceptors and without knowing just when it had launched.

[12][29][31][32] From July (delayed from May by the COVID-19 pandemic[32]) to September 2020, White Sands Missile Range conducted a limited user test of IBCS.

[49] At the Army's Project Convergence 2021 tech demonstration and experimentation event, IBCS was used to pass information from ground, air, and space sensors to a fire control system.

[53] For example, in a scenario where a THAAD system has to conserve its All-Up-Rounds, IBCS can calculate which targets are within the reach of its Patriot PAC-3 MSE interceptors, and fire those instead as needed.

GhostEye can detect the precise shape, size, distance and speed of an approaching threat with high-fidelity sensor "pings"; its semiconductor gallium nitride (GaN) emitters allow increased resolution, accuracy, and power efficiency.

[63][64] On 2 August 2024 the Army awarded Raytheon a $2 billion low-rate initial production contract for the LTAMDS radar through November 2028.

[65] The Indirect fire protection capability (IFPC)[66] Multi-Mission Launcher (MML) will have fielded 50 kW lasers on Strykers[67][68] in 2021 and 2022 to two battalions per year.