Development of NATO active-layered theatre ballistic-missile defense program

joint company statement, RESTON, Va., MUNICH, Germany and MADRID, Spain:  Defense industry leaders Northrop Grumman Corporation, EADS and Indra have announced that they have formed an international team to pursue a systems engineering and integration contract that is a key part of the new NATO active-layered theatre ballistic-missile defense program.  
 
This NATO ballistic-missile defense program will be the first to link the assets of member nations into a multi-layered system that will effectively protect deployed alliance forces against short- and medium-range ballistic-missile attack.  
 
The winning team for the NATO systems engineering and integration (SE&I) contract will design and operate an integration test bed in Europe that will help NATO prepare its member-nations