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.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2020
Source ID
0603892C_4_0400_PB_2020
Change Summary Explanation
Decrease in FY 2018 from PB19 to PB20 reflects the enacted congressional adjustments for Aegis BMD 6.x development due to excess growth and SM-3 Block IIA All Up Rounds (AURs) transferred to Procurement Decrease in FY 2019 from PB19 to PB20 reflects Congressional reduction of Weapon System Capability due to early to need (RDT&E) Decrease in FY 2020 from PB19 to PB20 reflects the following: - Transition of flight test execution support costs from this PE to PE 0604878C Aegis Test to ensure continued transparency and program efficiency. - Transition of Common Source Library (CSL), BMD 5.0 CU software maintenance, and transition of Test Site Usage for in-service baselines from RDT&E to O&M - Resolution of hardware availability issues and increased commonality within the SM-3 Missile family with utilization of previous material acquisitions of KW and GS
Service Agency Name
Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Computer Programs
  • Configuration Management
  • Control Systems
  • Cybersecurity
  • Defense Systems
  • Fire Control Systems
  • Information Systems
  • Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles
  • Manufacturing
  • Performance Tests
  • Product Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • Warfare

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