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 Ballistic Missile Defense System (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 BMDS threat discrimination improvements, which will enhance BMDS effectiveness against the evolving adversary threat. The result will be a BMDS architecture more capable of discriminating and destroying reentry vehicles with a higher degree of confidence, improving Warfighter shot doctrine, and more efficiently using interceptor inventory. BMDS threat discrimination improvements are funded from the Enabling (0603890C), Midcourse (0603882C), BMD Sensors (0603884C), C2BMC (0603896C), and Aegis BMD (0603892C) PEs. This Program Element also investigates concepts and performs systems engineering to address hypersonic threats.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2019
Source ID
0603892C_4_0400_PB_2019
Change Summary Explanation
Decrease from FY 2018 to FY 2019 is reflects the completion of FY16 SM-3 Block IIA RDT&E All Up Rounds (AURs) purchase and of Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense(BMD) 5.0x Development and Navy certification of the baseline and related development efforts. FY 2018 MISSILE DEFEAT AND DEFENSE ENCHANCEMENT (MDDE) BUDGET AMENDMENT: +$8.736 million is required to address emergency warfighting requirements in support of USPACOM Joint Emergent Operational Need Statement (JEON) and Aegis SM-3 Block IIA Missile Test. PB19 reflects approved out year Missile Defeat and Defense Enhancement (MDDE) tails.
Service Agency Name
Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Defense Systems
  • Information Systems
  • Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles
  • Manufacturing
  • Performance Tests
  • Product Development
  • Software Testing
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • Word Processors

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics

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