Technology Maturation Initiatives
Abstract
Technology Maturation Initiatives (TMI) demonstrates the utility of directed energy for missile defense. Missile Defense Agency's directed energy plan incrementally demonstrates and improves the constituent components required to execute a directed energy kill chain; acquisition, tracking, and lethality. The efforts shape future MDS acquisition choice by advancing the technology readiness levels of emerging and developing technology, while simultaneously assessing the performance and contributions to the MDS architecture. TMI includes analysis, development, demonstration, systems engineering and test efforts to examine, develop, and improve directed energy systems, disruptive directed energy concepts, sensors, and future missile defense technologies. MDA will develop cost effective demonstrators to address specific technology risks and will focus on the following: - Conduct sensor and directed energy system and subsystem tests to validate performance against emerging advanced threats - Integrate an advanced sensor into an airborne platform to provide discrimination of lethal objects and other advanced sensor applications - Develop a compact, ruggedized advanced sensor testbed that evolves technologies matured in lab and ground testing to a host platform demonstrating potential applications for persistent overhead discrimination Directed Energy Demonstrator Development (DEDD) addresses technology risk reduction and maturation for high powered strategic lasers, beam control, lethality, and related technologies. The efforts are tightly coupled with OUSD(R&E) High Energy Laser Development Road Map, and are essential to mature strategic laser technology. Beginning in FY 2021 this effort transitions from TMI to OUSD(R&E). Discrimination Sensor Demonstrator Development (DSDD) includes the development of an advanced sensor to discriminate lethal objects beginning with airborne platforms to introduce sensors into the MDS, followed by integration of the sensor on other platforms in the future. The advanced sensor incorporates incrementally developed, integrated, and tested next-generation sensors and electronics to demonstrate Launch-on-Remote, Engage-on-Remote, discrimination and handover improvements for missile defense. These advanced sensors improve the probability of engagement success for stressing threats, expand the MDS battle space and increase the ability to negate larger raid sizes. They also help develop the associated concept of operations and provide the basis for a quick reaction precision tracking capability to augment radar. MDA may use this sensor to address emerging advanced threats. Cyber Operations will make investments to provide enabling capabilities and asset protection to support all sensor and directed energy technical maturation initiatives. MDA collaborates with the Combatant Commands, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Energy, Directed Energy Joint Transition Office, Military Departments, National Laboratories and OUSD(R&E) in a systems engineering based strategy to research, analyze, develop and test directed energy weapons technology.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- 0604115C_4_0400_PB_2021
- Change Summary Explanation
- Decrease in FY 2020 reflects the Congressional reduction for Neutral Particle Beam and flight test. Decrease in FY 2021 reflects the reduction and reallocation of funding for Directed Energy Demonstrator Development (Laser Scaling) to higher priority Department investments, the cancellation of the Neutral Particle Beam (NPB), and removal of advanced sensor participation from the Integrated Master Test Plan (IMTP).
- Service Agency Name
- Missile Defense Agency
Entities
Organizations
- Missile Defense Agency
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