Air and Missile Defense Systems Engineering

Abstract

Funding in this program supports efforts to assess Army Air and Missile Defense (AMD) performance and system vulnerabilities to threats from Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA). Army AMD sensors, Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) Command and Control (C2), Radio Frequency (RF) data and voice networks will be assessed against current and postulated threat systems and techniques. Potential solutions developed by the Army, other Services, and Defense agencies (for example Missile Defense Agency) to close identified gaps will be demonstrated and assessed in live and simulated CEMA environments. Assessment events will be conducted approximately every two years. Analysis of results and implementation of potential solutions will occur between events using system-specific funding. The proposed solutions will then be assessed at the next event after implementation. Included in this line are funds to plan and execute periodic CEMA activities with Army AMD systems, to include other Service and other Agency AMD systems as appropriate. Upon completion of CEMA demonstration analyses, create concepts for mitigating Army AMD sensor, C2, and RF data link vulnerabilities. Efforts in this program will also develop tools for use by Army AMD systems to improve overall system performance in contested environments, to include effects-based CEMA Modeling and Simulation (M&S) to assess Army AMD CEMA concepts in Hardware-In-The-Loop (HWIL) environment. Collaboration is required with United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) Joint Electromagnetic Preparedness for Advanced Combat (JEPAC) to evaluate, modify, and field existing Army AMD EP Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) in a Joint environment. Additionally, there will be continual interface with intelligence communities to maintain cognizance of emerging CEMA threats and incorporate these threats in future CEMA demonstrations. An output from these activities will be development of a time-phased roadmap that identifies the investments needed to improve the CEMA capabilities of Army AMD sensors, C2, and RF data and voice networks. Funds in this line will also be used to transition the Army Low-Cost Portable Surveillance (ALPS) sensor from Science and Technology (S&T) into an emerging Program of Record (PoR). Initially, prototype systems will be provided to meet a Combatant Command identified need and to conduct an operational assessment. This program will also develop and integrate ALPS into the Army Integrated Air & Missile Defense (AIAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) to improve the CEMA posture of the Army's AMD architecture. The objectives of this effort are to prove component and subsystem maturity in a system-of-systems environment and to reduce subsequent PoR integration risk.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2018
• Source ID: 0603327A_4_2040_PB_2018
• Change Summary Explanation: FY2017 funding in the amount of $14.200 million is included in the March 2017 Request for Additional Appropriations. FY2018 base funding in the amount of $5.939 million was realigned from Program Element (PE) 0604741A, Project 126. Additionally, base funding increased by $13.010 million for ALPS development/integration and $15.000 million for CEMA activities. FY2018 Overseas Contingency (OCO) fund in the amount of $15.000 million support a Combatant Command identified need for ALPS and to continue the operational assessment started with FY17 funding in the Request for Additional Appropriations.
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• C4I
• Cyber
• Sensors
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Command And Control
• Contracts
• Data Links
• Defense Systems
• Electronic Warfare
• Engineering
• Engineers
• Intelligence Community
• Radio Frequency
• System Of Systems
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Unified Combatant Commands
• United States
• United States Strategic Command
• Warfare

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control