Kei programme moves forward.

Northrop Grumman recently demonstrated two key battle management capabilities of the US Air Force's new Kinetic Energy Interceptors (Kei) missile-defence programme. The first test demonstrated the ability of the Kei command and control, battle management and communications (C2BMC) system's permanent US site to process data from classified sensors, downgrade the data and distribute it to a Kei battery in the field. The Kei's C2BMC system will reside in Colorado and will be known as the Continental US Kei. Northrop Grumman also tested the mobile C2BMC system, which is housed in a 42-foot trailer, and tracked a live launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.