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 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.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2023
Source ID
0603892C_4_0400_PB_2023
Change Summary Explanation
Decrease of $98.9 million in FY 2022 reflects the Congressional reduction of Layered Homeland Defense lack of validated requirement and acquisition strategy. Increase of $6 million in FY 2022 provides Congressional add for Lightweight Telescope for Advanced Aegis Interceptor. FY 2023 funding increase reflects the fact that the FY 2022 President's Budget request did not include out-year funding.
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

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Battle Management
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Programs
  • Control Systems
  • Cooperative Engagement Capability
  • Defense Systems
  • Information Systems
  • Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles
  • Reliability
  • Software Development
  • System Software
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

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

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