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 naval and joint integrated fire control capability. SM-6 is the enabler for Integrated Fire Control (IFC). Funding to support those upgrades are also included in this line. SM-6 has completed the ground based and at-sea DT flight test phase of the System Development & Demonstration (SD&D) effort. SDD at-sea OT phase completed July 2011. 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, IAMD Roadmap, IAMD Joint Integrating Concept, AIAMD Joint Operating Concept and TAMD Capstone Requirements Document.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2013
Source ID
0604366N_5_1319_PB_2013
Change Summary Explanation
Technical: Program funding increased as a result of continued critical development and integration efforts necessary to meet delivery time-lines for DDG 1000 and AMDR. Additionally, funding was increased for DoD directed missile safety and testing, near term obsolescence replacement issues, and vital technology improvements to pace the threat. Schedule: Not applicable.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Aircrafts
  • Cooperative Engagement Capability
  • Cost Analysis
  • Cruise Missiles
  • Defense Systems
  • Detectors
  • Developmental Tests
  • Early Warning Systems
  • Engineering
  • Insensitive Explosives
  • Production
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Uss Zumwalt
  • Warning Systems

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