AEGIS BMD

Abstract

The Sea-Based Weapon Systems 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 Missile Defense System (MDS) upgrades. The Sea-Based Weapon Systems element of the MDS capitalizes upon and evolves from the existing United States Navy Aegis Weapons System (AWS) and Standard Missile (SM) infrastructures. Sea-Based Weapon Systems 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. Sea-Based Weapon Systems also provides a Long Range Surveillance and Track (LRS&T) capability to the MDS. Upgrades to both the Aegis BMD Weapon System and the SM-3 configuration enable Sea-Based Weapon Systems to provide effective, supportable defensive capability against longer range, threats and an enduring Aegis Ashore defensive capability. This Program Element includes MDS threat discrimination improvements, which will enhance MDS effectiveness against the evolving adversary threat. The result will be a MDS 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. MDS threat discrimination improvements are funded from the Enabling (0603890C), Midcourse (0603882C), BMD Sensors (0603884C), Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC)(0603896C), and Aegis BMD (0603892C) PEs.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 0603892C_4_0400_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: Net increase in FY 2021 provides a Congressional add for SM-3 Block IIA Engineering Change Proposal (ECPs) and reflects Congressional reductions for Aegis Underlay and excess growth. Increase in FY 2022 provides for SM-3 Block IB Threat Upgrade (TU)/Technology Refresh (TR) to modernize the Advance Signal Processor (ASP) and mitigate obsolescence issues; re-phasing from FY 2023 to align with updated cost estimates for Builds 8.2 and 8.3 completions which includes associated new threats and completes the Missile Power Application Non-Launch (MPAN) capability insertion and the integration of the threats captured in Sea Based Terminal (SBT) Increment II Capability Upgrade (CU); AWS and SM-3 Block IIA software upgrades for increased capability against expanded threat/mission space and increase performance for persistent deployment in support of Layered Homeland Defense. Increase also provides integration activities to meet planned demonstration objectives for a transportable deployment option.
• Service Agency Name: Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Ballistic Missiles
• Battle Management
• Command And Control
• Computer Programs
• Control Systems
• Cooperative Engagement Capability
• Defense Systems
• Homeland Defense
• Information Systems
• Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles
• Procurement
• Product Development
• Radar Tracking
• Software Development
• Systems Engineering
• Teamwork
• Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control