Air and Missile Defense Systems Engineering

Abstract

Funding in this Program Element (PE) supports Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) efforts to conduct operational realistic assessments of Army Air and Missile Defense (AMD) performance, identify system vulnerabilities, and develop mitigations against threats across the Cyber and Electromagnetic spectrum. Army AMD sensors, integrated air and missile defense mission command and fire control, Radio Frequency (RF) data and voice networks, and Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) technology 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. 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, funding will facilitate initial recommendations for potential mitigations and solutions to Army AMD sensors, 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. Additionally, virtual models of critical hardware and software are being developed and implemented to allow for destructive testing with advanced CEMA threats in a lab environment. There will be continual interface with intelligence communities to maintain cognizance of emerging CEMA threats and incorporate these threats in future CEMA demonstrations. These activities follow a time-phased roadmap that identifies the investments needed to improve the resiliency of Army AMD sensors, C2, and RF data and voice networks in contested CEMA environments. FY 2020 funding of $15.648 million will be used to analyze P-12 event data, provide recommendations for rapid countermeasures and potential solutions, conduct destructive CEMA lab events, continue virtualization of additional AMD system of systems architecture for future CEMA assessments against advanced destructive cyber and electromagnetic threats. Funding will also be used to initiate planning and preparation for the P-13 event.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2020
• Source ID: 0603327A_4_2040_PB_2020
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2020 change is primarily driven by the transition of ALPS to PE 0604741 Project 126.
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Sensors
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Budgets
• Contracts
• Cost Analysis
• Costs
• Data Links
• Defense Systems
• Demonstrations
• Electromagnetic Spectra
• Electronic Warfare
• Engineering
• Engineers
• Intelligence Community
• Product Development
• Radio Frequency
• System Of Systems
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation

Readers

• Cybersecurity.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

• Cyber