Technology Maturation Initiatives
Abstract
Technology Maturation Initiatives (TMI) demonstrates the utility of directed energy for missile defense. The Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) directed energy plan incrementally demonstrates and improves the constituent components required to execute a directed energy kill chain; acquisition, tracking, and lethality. The efforts shaped future Missile Defense System (MDS) acquisition choices by advancing the technology readiness levels of emerging and developing technologies, while simultaneously assessing the performance and contributions to the MDS architecture. TMI included 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. Directed Energy Demonstrator Development (DEDD) addressed technology risk reduction and maturation for high powered strategic lasers, beam control, lethality, and related technologies. The efforts remain tightly coupled with OUSD(R&E) High Energy Laser Development Road Map, and are essential to mature strategic laser technology. Discrimination Sensor Demonstrator Development (DSDD) included the development of an advanced sensor to discriminate lethal objects and integration of resulting technologies onto other MDS platforms in the future. The advanced sensor incorporated 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 improved the probability of engagement success for stressing threats, expanded the MDS battle space and increased the ability to negate larger raid sizes. The sensor technologies also helped develop the associated concept of operations and provided the basis for a quick reaction precision tracking capability to augment radar. MDA may use the sensor technology to address emerging advanced threats. MDA collaborates with the Combatant Commands, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Energy, Joint Directed Energy 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. MDA requests no funding in this program element in FY 2022 and the out years.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2023
- Source ID
- 0604115C_4_0400_PB_2023
- Change Summary Explanation
- Increase of $39.2 million in FY 2022 provides the Congressional Plus-up for Directed Energy and Diode Pumped Alkali Laser Demonstrator (DPAL) Development.
- Service Agency Name
- Missile Defense Agency
Entities
Organizations
- Missile Defense Agency
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