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 upgrades. The Sea-Based Weapon Systems element of the Missile Defense System capitalizes upon and evolves from the existing U.S. Navy 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, Medium-Range Ballistic Missiles, and Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missiles 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 capability to the Missile Defense System. 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 also provides the development of the Aegis Weapon System Software configuration for the Aegis portion of the Defense of Guam, including capabilities for defense against advanced ballistic threats and integration of Land Based Radar configuration. This Program Element includes Missile Defense System threat discrimination improvements, which will enhance Missile Defense System effectiveness against the evolving adversary threat. The result will be a Missile Defense System 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. Missile Defense System threat discrimination improvements are funded from the Enabling (0603890C), Midcourse (0603882C), BMD Sensors (0603884C), Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (0603896C), and Aegis BMD (0603892C) PEs.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2024
Source ID
0603892C_4_0400_PB_2024
Change Summary Explanation
FY 2023 Congressional Add of $6.0 million in Project MD09 Aegis BMD for Lightweight telescope for advanced AEGIS interceptor. FY 2023 Congressional Directed Reductions Total $9.5 million: Project: MD09 Aegis BMD for Program growth ($5.429 million) Project: MX09 AEGIS BMD Development Support for Program growth ($2.571 million) and Program operation growth ($1.5 million) Increase in FY 2024 provides additional funding to support Guam architecture and timelines.
Service Agency Name
Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Security Techniques
  • Configuration Management
  • Control Systems
  • Cybersecurity
  • Defense Systems
  • Digital Engineering
  • Homeland Defense
  • Information Systems
  • Reliability
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • Vulnerability

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

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

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