BMD C2BMC

Abstract

The Ballistic Missile Defense Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) Program establishes the System by linking together the external sensors and weapons of independent Elements into a layered missile defense system such that the whole is more capable and robust than the sum of its parts -- thus increasing the footprint of the BMDS with greater performance and defensive coverage. The C2BMC enables the BMDS to manage complex threats -- near simultaneous enemy missile shots aimed at theater, regional, or homeland assets. The systems linked through C2BMC include Phased Array Tracking Radar Intercept on Target (PATRIOT), Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), Ground Based Midcourse Defense (GMD); and sensors such as the Army/Navy/Transportable Radar Surveillance model 2 (AN/TPY-2) radar, Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX), Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS), and BMDS Overhead Persistent Infra-Red (OPIR) Architecture (BOA). In FY 2011, deploy to Central Command (CENTCOM) a complete C2BMC capability including equipment, communications, and training. The C2BMC Program will ship a C2BMC Deployable Interface Node (CDIN), deploy and set up the CDIN, install a Spiral 6.2 suite, support hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) integration testing, provide operations and sustainment, and add a training suite in CENTCOM. One of the best ways to dissuade, deter, and defeat ballistic missile threats is through integrated ballistic missile defense capabilities: weapons; sensors; and command and control, battle management, and communications. A potential or actual attack may cross regions and may fly higher and faster than stand-alone, autonomous capabilities operated by a single Military Service can defend against. Integrated BMD capabilities draw on space-, land-, and sea-based assets operated by multiple Services to provide the best sensor information about the enemy missiles location and track and a more diverse and effective set of weapon options to be used by the Combatant Commander to defeat the attack; with all connected by a unifying C2BMC system. As a result, an effort funded in a Program Element may be critical to the success of efforts in other Program Elements. These connections are referred to as interdependencies. C2BMC Program provides: - Communications links and connectivity between BMDS Elements - Battle management function that allows a shoot/look/shoot approach maximizing BMDS effectiveness while minimizing the number of weapons expended. It is important to note that C2BMC provides a battle management function; it does not have a fire control system - Control of the BMDS radars, taking data from multiple sensors tracking the same threat, and correlating it into one optimal track for BMDS Element`s fire control - Real-time awareness of the battle as it unfolds to include interoperability with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in support of the Phased Adaptive Approach. - Advanced battle planning capability which enables warfighters to place BMDS assets in ideal locations in anticipation of an upcoming battle. The C2BMC Program has integrated six BMDS Elements (GMD, Aegis BMD, THAAD, SBIRS, Sensors, and Patriot) and Coalition Partners; is in 33 locations with 12 customers in 17 time zones; has deployed over 800 pieces of equipment and Satellite Communications (SATCOM) using three frequency bands; has stood up over 70 crew positions; trains over 700 operators, maintenance personnel, and testers per year; and is supported by over 48,000 miles of Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) communication lines. The C2BMC Program provides quality, safety, and mission assurance operations to ensure compliance with Agency requirements for design, test, manufacturing, quality, safety, and reliability. C2BMC provides the capabilities for leaders at multiple levels of command to see, assess, and react to ballistic missile threats. C2BMC capabilities, consistent with the Strategic Command (STRATCOM) FY 2010 Prioritized Capabilities List (PCL), are provided through four capability areas: BMD Planner, Situational Awareness, Global Engagement Manager (GEM), and BMD Communications Network. - BMD Planner: The Planner provides warfighters the capability to explore the effectiveness of various defensive designs in order to plan the most effective defense by optimizing the location and mix/pairing of sensors and interceptors. The Planner is flexible enough to allow the warfighter to function in the three modes of activity: Deliberate Planning (24-36 months before a battle), Crisis Action Planning (hours or days before an attack based on updated information), and Dynamic Planning (near real-time agility for changing situations). System models used in the Planner today include the GMD system used to defend the U.S.; and the AN/TPY-2 radar, Aegis BMD, PATRIOT, and THAAD systems used to defend against theater missile attacks. - Situational Awareness: This capability is used to turn detailed data into usable information that commanders can act on in the event of a missile defense threat. Situational Awareness information is provided by the Combatant Commands Command and Control (COCOM C2) screens (displays and decision aids). Situational Awareness display emphasizes a common ballistic missile picture and summary screens used at the Presidential level down to the operational level of command. The systems available today include an interface with the Ground Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) fire control, THAAD, Aegis BMD and PATRIOT via Link 16; sensor management control of the AN/TPY-2 radar, and a direct data connection to SBIRS information. - Global Engagement Manager (GEM): The GEM provides the first true BMDS battle management capability through C2BMC. GEM provides the foundation for various BMD Elements and external sensors and interceptors to work synergistically for optimal performance. The GEM will provide enhanced sensor management control of world-wide X-band radars allowing for the control of multiple AN/TPY-2 radars within a given region beginning in 2011. Currently sensor management control is limited to a single TPY-2 radar. GEM will utilize OPIR data for boost phase cueing on AN/TPY-2. Prototype control concepts to task advanced Airborne Infrared (ABIR) sensors for early intercept cueing using GEM will be matured in the 2011-2012 timeframe. In addition to automated sensor tasking, advanced battle management algorithms will be developed that assign a specific sensor to a specific track, calculate the most likely track of an incoming missile, and display automated battle management decision aides (ABMAs) to the warfighter to assist in determining the highest priority threats in a raid environment. The warfighter operator will have the ability to direct missile engagements with BMD elements on a command by exception basis using these new GEM situational awareness displays, thus maximizing the probability of hit to kill. GEM will utilize existing interfaces and functionality of BMDS weapons and sensors to provide these battle management capabilities. - BMD Communications Network: The BMD Communications Network ties together sensors (both BMDS radars and space sensors) and weapons systems via the Combatant Commands Command and Control screens and GEM, thereby enabling the National Command Authority and the commanders at the strategic, theater and tactical levels to optimally engage ballistic missile threats at any range, in any phase of flight, at any time including near simultaneous theater, regional and homeland attacks. The BMD Communications Network builds on existing and new global grid data and communications networks to provide a robust, end-to-end, high availability, operational communications network (COMNET) infrastructure that quickly and unambiguously shares information across the global BMDS. This sharing of information is performed securely with special emphasis on preventing cyber attack via a BMDS Network Operations and Security Center (BNOSC). Effective networking management and operations relies on the ability to manage, coordinate, and integrate a wide variety of equipment platforms, interfaces with other DoD communications systems, existing/evolving information standards and capabilities, and adherence to DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP). Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) services are also highly leveraged in providing world-wide communications. The C2BMC Program employs a robust incremental development program to deliver enhanced and new capabilities to the warfighter. Each incremental delivery (identified using the generic nomenclature of Spiral x.# (e.g., Spiral 6.4) includes the software, hardware, and network connectivity needed to operate the BMDS. The C2BMC Program includes support for and analysis of BMDS-level wargames and tests with fielded capabilities. The delivery of a new capability has been replanned to coincide with the new Phased Adaptive Approach (PAA) system architecture. PAA-1 is implemented by Spiral 6.4C and PAA-2 is implemented through future Spirals. Therefore multiple capability increments are in staggered stages of development at any time. Typically one spiral will be in operations with the second spiral in the testing stage and the third spiral in engineering design and development. The key test event for development is start of Cycle 2, Simulation-Based Verification, when software completes internal C2BMC development and begins testing with other BMDS Elements. Completion of Cycle 5, Site Activation Testing, coupled with successful participation in BMDS ground test campaigns, signals delivery of fully functioning operational software. This provides the warfighter with a continuous stream of improvements to meet the evolving threat. The C2BMC Program provides the program office personnel to manage the BMDS Concurrent Test Training and Operations (CTTO) activities. CTTO is responsible for providing warfighters the means to train using high-fidelity simulations of realistic scenarios while using operational (deployed) equipment and networks. The key is to safely separate training events from real-world operations (i.e., allowing the warfighter to train on the same equipment they will use in a real battle). The C2BMC Program provides the program office personnel to manage the development and implementation of Distributed Multi-Echelon Training System (DMETS), a capability which enables warfighters to train where they fight by generating realistic, interactive, threat scenarios that address all phases of the kill chain and varied sensor/shooter combinations. The system allows for scalable training of the BMDS using a parallel architecture either physically or logically separated from the operational one. To provide capabilities to defend the territory of the United States against ballistic missile threats from rogue nations and accidental or unauthorized launches, and to enhance missile defense to defend our deployed forces, allies, and friends against regional threats including defeating large raid sizes and intercepting early in flight the C2BMC program will: - Add 2 EUCOM ground nodes and satellite terminals to support BMD Communications Network for Phased Adaptive Approach (PAA) - Enhance contingency/crisis action planning for Defended Area, Operating Area, and Scenario analysis, incorporate the effects of earth rotation, update/distribute BMD Element and threat system reference data, import intelligence data from the Modernized Integrated Database (MIDB), trailor radar search sectors, and integrate 3D mapping, display, and analysis tools into a single user interface - Provide situational awareness to support command and control at Combatant Commands (COCOMs) and the National Military Command Center (NMCC) via a common set of display components with views tailored based on user needs - Field initial Global Engagement Manager (GEM) capability at the Kenney Air Operations Center (Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii) - Improve system reliability and availability to support test and operations by implementing a continuity of operations GEM at the MDIOC - Provide BMD Planner and Situational Awareness capability that fully incorporates intelligence information - Provide initial interfaces between weapons and sensors compatible with DoD network-centric service-oriented architecture - Provide updated C2BMC model (BCM) (key component of the BMD Distributed Simulation Architecture) for system-level performance assessments. Validate BCM represents operational C2BMC performance by utilizing the GT-04 campaign of test events to collect Critical Engagement Conditions (CECs) and Empirical Measurement Events (EMEs) verification data Sustainment - Sustain worldwide C2BMC operational capability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year-- on site personnel supporting 33 locations, across 17 time zones, and over 800 pieces of equipment. Additional Navy Maritime Operating Center installations are planned in FY 2011. EUCOM is planned to be added in FY 2012, in accordance with National Command Authority, Combatant Command requirements, and DoD execution orders. - The 33 locations supported are: - U.S. Forces Korea (USFK); U.S. Forces Japan (USFJ); Shariki, Japan; Pacific Command (PACOM) at Camp Smith, HI; Air Operations Center (AOC) at Hickam Air Force Base (AFB), HI; Defense Information Systems Agency Defense Enterprising Computing Center (DISA DECC) Pacific; U.S. Pacific Fleet (PACFLT), HI; Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), HI; Fort Greely, Alaska (FGA); Alaska Command (ALCOM); Vandenberg AFB, CA; 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command (AAMDC), TX; Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station (CMAFS), CO; Peterson AFB, CO; Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center (MDIOC) at Shriever AFB, CO; Huntsville, AL (Von Braun II); Central Command (CENTCOM), Tampa, FL; South Carolina National Guard (SCNG); Pentagon; White House; MDA; Missile Defense National Team (MDNT); Navy Europe (NAVEUR); Israel; Stuttgart, DE; Ramstein Air Base (AB), DE; Patch and Rhine Ord Barracks, DE; and the United Kingdom (4 sites), Navy Maritime Operating Centers - Provide 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year help desk (Control Center at the MDIOC) for real-time issue resolution - Develop curriculum and provide C2BMC operator, maintenance personnel, and tester training on C2BMC equipment and capabilities (approximately 700 people per year) - Lease communication lines via Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for global BMD Network Communications FY12 budget request recognizes that historical execution rates will result in FY11 funds available to support in FY12. The accomplishments reflect the use of the FY11 funding in addition to the FY12 request.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2012
• Source ID: 0603896C_4_0400_PB_2012
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2012 $0.018 million increase is the result of $17.429 million in efficiency savings and MDA programmatic changes.
• Service Agency Name: Missile Defense Agency

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• Missile Defense Agency

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Communities of Interest

• C4I
• Cyber
• Human Systems
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Ballistic Missiles
• Battle Management
• Command And Control
• Computing System Architectures
• Cost Analysis
• Department Of Veterans Affairs
• Engineering
• Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
• Information Systems
• Maintenance
• Maintenance Personnel
• Reconnaissance Satellites
• Situational Awareness
• Test And Evaluation
• Unified Combatant Commands
• United States Central Command

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• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

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