Ballistic Missile Defense Midcourse Defense Segment

Abstract

The GMD element of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) provides combatant commanders with a continuously available (24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year) capability to defend the Homeland against limited Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) attacks. The GMD capability consists of Ground Based Interceptor (GBI), GMD Fire Control system (GFC), GMD Communications Network (GCN), Hawaii IFICS IDT and ground Launch Support Systems (LSS). The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) will deliver 64 operationally deployed GBIs located at Fort Greely, Alaska (60 GBIs) and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California (4 GBIs). Each GBI delivers a single kill vehicle to defeat threat warheads in space during the midcourse phase of the ballistic trajectory. The GFC consists of fire control nodes in Fort Greely, Alaska and Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center (MDIOC) Colorado Springs, Colorado. IDTs are currently located in Fort Greely, Alaska: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California; Eareckson Air Station, Alaska; and Fort Drum, New York. The GMD capability leverages integration of BMDS sensors across the globe. Development objectives for GMD include: improve homeland defensive capability against an evolving threat that is increasing both in number of missiles and complexity of threat payloads, execute flight testing, modernize the GMD ground system, provide fire control and communications, develop GBI software enhancements that improve reliability, capability, and discrimination, improve GMD models and simulations (M&S), and participate with other BMDS assets in system ground tests.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2020
Source ID
0603882C_4_0400_PB_2020
Change Summary Explanation
Increase in FY 2018 from PB19 to PB20 reflects the enacted congressional adjustment of $229.996 million in accordance with the FY 2018 Appropriations Act. Decrease in FY 2019 from PB19 to PB20 reflects the enacted congressional adjustment for forward financing in the FY 2018 Appropriations Act. Increase in FY 2020 from PB19 to PB20 provides the development of the Hawaii In-Flight Interceptor Communications System (IFICS) Data Terminal (IDT), upgrade and reactivation of the IDT on the Sea Based X-Band Radar (SBX), Ground Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Lab upgrades and cybersecurity efforts.
Service Agency Name
Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Facilities
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Configuration Management
  • Control Systems
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Fire Control Systems
  • Information Systems
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • Maintenance
  • Manufacturing
  • Performance Tests
  • Reliability
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites
  • Space - Space Objects

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