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.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2021
• Source ID: 0603892C_4_0400_PB_2021
• Change Summary Explanation: Net Increase in FY 2020 reflects the enacted congressional decrease of $28M for Unjustified Growth and provides congressional adds for SM-3 Block IIA test planning and acquisition of test articles for environmental testing and increased cybersecurity requirements. Increase in FY 2021 provides the following: - Increased cybersecurity requirements to initiate Radio Frequency (RF) Link Improvements Initiation between Aegis BMD Weapon Systems and missiles to enable missile hardware enhancements in alignment with the U.S. Navy - Re-baseline BMD 6.x program to condense BMD software development schedule to continue in alignment with U.S. Navy's Flight III DDG deployment - Upgrades to Aegis Baseline (BL) 9 (BMD 5.x) to provide additional threats to the Aegis weapon system aligning with SM-3 Block IIA Build 8.2/8.3 software updates and threat set - Aegis BL 5.4.1 (BMD 4.2) program schedule acceleration reducing total Future Year Defense Program (FYDP) cost while delivering capability to the warfighter in time to support the need in joint coordination with the U.S. Navy
• 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
• Command And Control
• Computer Programs
• Control Systems
• Cybersecurity
• Cyberspace Operations
• Defense Systems
• Homeland Defense
• Information Systems
• Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles
• Manufacturing
• Software Development
• Systems Engineering
• Teamwork
• Test And Evaluation
• Test Equipment
• Warfare

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• Missile Defense Systems.