Ballistic Missile Defense Command and Control, Battle Management & Communication

Abstract

The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program is the integrating element of the Missile Defense System (MDS). It is a vital operational system that enables the U.S. President, Secretary of Defense and Combatant Commanders at strategic, regional and operational levels to systematically plan missile defense operations, to collectively see the battle develop, and to dynamically manage designated networked sensors and weapons systems to achieve global and regional mission objectives. Systems linked through C2BMC include Patriot, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), Aegis Ashore, Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD), Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS), and sensors such as the Army Navy/Transportable Radar Surveillance and Control-2 (AN/TPY-2) Radar, Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX), Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR), Homeland Defense, Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS), and BMDS Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Architecture (BOA). The C2BMC program also works to increase coalition partners' capabilities and investigates concepts and explores system engineering issues associated with innovative space applications for a missile defense intercept and defeat system. C2BMC begins support to integrate existing sensor elements within Missile Defense Agency and the Services into the Ballistic Missile Defense System Communications Network (BCN) to establish a globally integrated sensor architecture to provide enhanced, dynamic space capabilities, and extend existing BCN network and cybersecurity management to cover the expanded architecture.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2022
Source ID
0603896C_4_0400_PB_2022
Change Summary Explanation
The increase in FY 2021 provides the enacted congressional net increase of $52.4 million. $50.0 million increase provides for the development of innovative command and control techniques and technology to accelerate integration of non-traditional sensors for missile defense. $36.2 million increase provides for acceleration of indications and warning capability against cruise missiles and asymmetric threats. $5.0 million increase provides for cybersecurity upgrades to protect against the cybersecurity threat environment. $2.2 million increase provides for DWR MDA manpower restoration. $41.0 million reduction reflects the Congressional decrease for Increment 7 and Increment 9 development efforts. The increase in FY 2022 provides systems engineering activities and algorithm development to support Layered Homeland Defense efforts.
Service Agency Name
Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combatant Commanders
  • Command And Control
  • Cross Domain
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Defense Systems
  • Information Systems
  • Logistics
  • National Security
  • Reconnaissance Satellites
  • Space Force
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Central Command
  • United States Northern Command
  • Warfare

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Cyber - Quantum
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Space
  • Space - Satellites
  • Space - Space Objects

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