AEGIS BMD

Abstract

The Aegis BMD mission is to deliver an enduring, operationally effective and supportable BMD capability to defend the nation, deployed forces, friends and allies, and to increase this capability by delivering evolutionary improvements as part of BMDS upgrades. The Aegis BMD element of the BMDS capitalizes upon and evolves from the existing United States Navy Aegis Weapons System (AWS) and Standard Missile (SM) infrastructures. Aegis BMD provides a forward-deployable, mobile capability to detect and track Ballistic Missiles of all ranges, and the ability to destroy Short-Range Ballistic Missiles (SRBMs), Medium-Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBMs), and Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBMs) in the midcourse phase of flight, and shorter range missiles in the terminal phase of flight. Aegis BMD also provides a Long Range Surveillance and Track (LRS&T) capability to the BMDS. Upgrades to both the Aegis BMD Weapon System and the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) configuration enable Aegis BMD to provide effective, supportable defensive capability against longer range, more sophisticated threats and an enduring Aegis Ashore defensive capability. This Program Element includes support for discrimination improvement efforts, which aim to develop and field an integrated set of Element capabilities to improve BMDS effectiveness and resilience against the evolving threat. The end result will be a BMDS architecture more capable of discriminating and destroying a re-entry vehicle with a high degree of confidence, improving Warfighter shot doctrine and preserving inventory. This effort encompasses Near -term, Mid-term, and Far-term discrimination capability fielding. The discrimination improvements require a coordinated effort between Systems Engineering (PE 0603890C), Ground-based Midcourse Defense (PE 0603882C), BMD Sensors (PE 0603884C), C2BMC (PE 0603896C), Aegis BMD, and Advanced C4ISR (PE 0603179C). MD40 Program-Wide Support (PWS) consists of essential non-headquarters management efforts providing integrated and efficient support to MDA functions and activities across the entire BMDS.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2017
Source ID
0603892C_4_0400_PB_2017
Change Summary Explanation
Decrease in FY 2015 reflects realignment of Department of Defense priorities Increase in FY 2017 is attributed to the following: - Incremental funding increased from FY2016 levels to match manufacturing expenditure profile for seventeen FY16 contracted SM-3 Block IIA All Up Rounds (AUR)'s, funding requirements aligned with next FY2017 increment of component, sub-section and section manufacturing and delivery schedules to support AUR deliveries beginning FY2018 - Increased funding for SM-3 BLK IIA Development due to Transition of Kinetic Warhead (KW) hardware commonality effort (from design to material purchases) to system integration testing in order to demonstrate technology readiness level 7, Implementation of updated missile software build, test and qualification for FTM-29 and FTO-03 flight testing, Increased integration testing with Aegis Baseline based on matured test requirements, Guidance Section Circuit Card Assembly manufacturing environmental test capability improvements to reduce Average Unit Production Price (AUPP), Build up SM-3 BLK IIA AUR for FTM-29 from residual SCD hardware to address schedule impact from late long lead material for FY2016 manufacturing contract - Commencement of the BMD 6.x baseline to align to the Advanced Capability Build-20 Navy Capabilities Document - Increased Discrimination Efforts - Program Wide Support reflects a proportional change as a result of increases in Aegis BMD
Service Agency Name
Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Attitude Control Systems
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Programs
  • Configuration Management
  • Control Systems
  • Defense Systems
  • Information Assurance
  • Information Systems
  • Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles
  • Manufacturing
  • Reliability
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands

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