Standard Missile Improvements

Abstract

Standard Missile (SM) is the Navy's premier Anti-Air Warfare (AAW) missile, providing both area air defense for the fleet and self defense for individual Aegis CGs and DDGs, as required by the Joint Theater Air Missile Defense (TAMD), Mission Need Statement (MNS), Defense Planning Guidance (DPG), Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), and Ship Class AAW Self Defense Capstone Requirements Document. Agility, fuzing, and computer modifications to SM are in development to restore performance in the near term against a specific existing proliferating Anti-Ship Cruise Missile (ASCM) threat. Continuous analysis of missile capabilities vs. ever-evolving and proliferating aircraft and ASCM threats and long-range planning are required to keep pace with the threat. In FY04 the STANDARD Missile 6 (SM-6) program was started to develop an advanced surface missile system with an active seeker and an extended range. The SM-6 missile system will leverage the Navy investment in the AEGIS Weapon System (AWS), Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC), and airborne early warning systems, which will be upgraded in concert with missile development to support a fully integrated extended range detect-to-engage capability. SM-6 is the enabler for Integrated Fire Control (IFC). Funding to support those upgrades are also included in this line. SM-6 is currently executing the ground based flight test program and planning for the DT/OT flight test phase of the SD&D effort. Together, this family of systems will provide the air superiority and the umbrella of protection against the full spectrum of projected future cruise missile (anti-ship and land attack) and manned aircraft threats discussed in the Joint TAMD MNS, DPG, QDR, and TAMD Capstone Requirements Document.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2011
Source ID
0604366N_5_1319_PB_2011
Change Summary Explanation
Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Not applicable. FY11 from previous President's Budget is shown as zero because no FY11-15 data was presented in President's Budget 2010.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Defense
  • Air Power
  • Aircrafts
  • Cooperative Engagement Capability
  • Cost Analysis
  • Cruise Missiles
  • Engineering
  • Insensitive Explosives
  • Munitions
  • Radio Frequency
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warning Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

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