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Northrop Grumman and LIG Nex1 Collaborate to Strengthen Republic of Korea's Air and Missile Defense Capabilities

Seoul October 21, 2025 Photo(s): By Northrop Grumman
John Frick, director, strategy and growth, Northrop Grumman and Tae-Sik Park, president, missile system group, LIG Nex1 signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on enhancing air and missile defense capabilities at Seoul ADEX International Aerospace & Defense Exhibition.

Northrop Grumman Corporation and LIG Nex1 formalized their commitment to enhance the Republic of Korea's air and missile defense capabilities by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the Seoul ADEX International Aerospace & Defense Exhibition.

  • Through this collaboration the companies will leverage their respective specialized defense technologies during a series of technical exchanges and engineering assessments.
  • Northrop Grumman's expertise in air and missile defense command and control systems, as demonstrated in the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS), complements LIG Nex1's role in Korea's indigenous missile defense systems. These systems include Cheongung-II (M-SAM II), Korean Air and Missile Defense system, L-SAM, and command, control, communications, and intelligence system integration.

Expert:

Jeremy Knupp, vice president, global command and control solutions, Northrop Grumman: "Northrop Grumman is committed to developing innovative, sovereign solutions that enhance the performance and effectiveness of current and future integrated air and missile defense systems. This partnership with LIG Nex1 underscores our dedication to collaborating with the Korean defense industry to deliver advanced, cost-effective capabilities that strengthen Korea's homeland defense and ensure adaptability to evolving threats." Tae-Sik Park, president, missile system group, LIG Nex1: "We are pleased that this cooperation with Northrop Grumman opens up broader opportunities to explore various projects in both domestic and international air defense missile markets."

Details on Northrop Grumman's IAMD Command and Control Capabilities:

IBCS is a revolutionary system that delivers fire control quality and battle management, unifying 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 assess and respond to threats, serving as a foundational element for enabling joint and coalition, multi-domain operations IBCS is in production and will be fielded as part of the US Army's program of record for integrated air and missile defense modernization.