Prompt Global Strike

Abstract

This Program Element (PE) was established in response to guidance associated with the Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 President’s Budget, which called for the consolidation and reduction of funding for Conventional Prompt Global Strike (CPGS) efforts for the Navy (Conventional Trident Modification) and Air Force (Common Aero Vehicle) programs. Resources in this PE support the continued development of technologies to continue to enable technology transitions to close the conventional prompt global strike warfighting capability gap. The program uses a national team approach to ensure coordination between the Services, Agencies and National Research Laboratories and places emphasis on the pursuit of integrated portfolio objectives for a national CPGS system. This program funds the design, development and acquisition of guidance systems, boosters, mission planning capabilities, mission enabling capabilities, reentry systems, and payload delivery vehicles (PDVs). It procures modeling and simulation activities, command and control capabilities, test range support, as well as launch system infrastructure. Additionally, funding may be applied towards efforts such as strategic policy compliance and advanced non-nuclear warheads. The emphasis on demonstrating component and subsystem maturity on order to ultimately offer solutions for an existing warfighting capability gap dictates the need for risk reduction initiatives. With the Air Force Conventional Strike Missile (CSM) serving as the lead design to demonstrate a possible materiel solution for the CPGS warfighting capability gap, the Army Hypersonic Glide Body (HGB) design provides an alternative risk reduction path within the Air Force CSM concept. In FY 2011, funding for each of the individual service initiatives will be contingent upon their abilities to execute and achieve satisfactory progress towards project goals as determined by the CPGS portfolio manager.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2011
• Source ID: 0604165D8Z_5_0400_PB_2011
• Service Agency Name: Office of Secretary Of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Aerospace Craft
• Air Force
• Command And Control
• Control Systems
• Hypersonic Cruise Missiles
• Hypersonic Glide Vehicles
• Hypersonic Weapons
• Launch Vehicles
• Navigation
• Nuclear Warheads
• Prompt Global Strike
• Range Safety
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Vehicles
• Weapons

Readers

• Defense Acquisition Program Management
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Hypersonics