Expanded Mission Area Missile (EMAM)

Abstract

Work in this PE, the Expanded Mission Area Missile (EMAM) program, supports the Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) architecture and provides Directed Energy - Indirect Fire Protection Capability (DE-IFPC) intercept capability to defeat Cruise Missiles (CM), Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), and Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar (RAM) threats. The DE-IFPC is an Air Defense capability consisting of the IFPC-High Energy Laser (HEL) and the IFPC-High Power Microwave (HPM). IFPC-HEL will provide a ground-based weapon system designed to acquire, track, engage, and defeat the CM, UAS, and RAM threats. The IFPC-HEL requirement consists of a vehicle, 300 kW class laser subsystem, power and thermal subsystem, and a beam control subsystem integrated with a battle management command, control and communication software. IFPC-HEL provides much needed protection against adversarial threat systems capable of targeting U.S. and Allied forward operating bases, convoys, and other critical assets. IFPC-HPM will provide a ground-based weapon system designed to acquire, track, engage, and defeat UAS. The IFPC-HPM requirement consist of a HPM source, power and thermal subsystem, and an antenna subsystem integrated with a battle management command, control and communication software. IFPC-HPM provides much needed protection against adversarial UAS swarms capable of targeting and overwhelming U.S. and Allied air defense systems. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this PE is performed by the United States Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO).

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 0604019A_4_2040_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: Project BU9 IFPC- High Energy Laser has been restructured to transfer all funds for IFPC-HPM effort to PE 0604019A EMAM Project CO6 IFPC-HPM.
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Energy and Power Technologies
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Defense
• Air Force
• Battle Management
• Contracts
• Cruise Missiles
• Directed Energy Weapons
• High Power Microwaves
• Indirect Fire
• Manufacturing
• Multi-Domain Operations
• Product Development
• Program Management
• Software Prototyping
• Systems Engineering
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Weapon Systems

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Missile Defense Systems.
• Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Autonomy - UAVs
• Directed Energy