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, 2023
Source ID
0603896C_4_0400_PB_2023
Change Summary Explanation
Decrease of $44.9 million in FY 2022 reflects the Congressional reduction for Layered Homeland Defense (LHD) from lack of validated requirements and acquisition strategy. Increase of $6.4 million in FY 2022 provides the Congressional plus-up for Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) and MDS Cybersecurity. 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
  • 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
  • Software Development
  • Space Force
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Central Command
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • 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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