Air Defense Command, Control and Intelligence - Eng Dev

Abstract

The Advanced Electronic Protection Enhancement (AEPE) Program funds efforts to assess and initiate development of solutions to Army Air and Missile Defense (AMD) vulnerabilities from Advanced Electronic Attack (AEA). Army AMD sensors, Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) Command and Control (C2), and Radio Frequency (RF) data and voice networks will be assessed against current and postulated AEA systems and techniques. Potential Electronic Protection (EP) solutions developed by the Army will be demonstrated and assessed in live and simulated AEA environments. Similarly, EP solutions developed by the Joint services and other Agencies (e.g., the Missile Defense Agency) will also be assessed for potential incorporation into Army AMD systems. The Air and Missile Defense Planning and Control System (AMDPCS) is an Army Objective Force System that provides integration of Air and Missile Defense (AMD) operations at all echelons. AMDPCS systems are deployed with Air Defense Artillery (ADA) brigades, Army Air and Missile Defense Commands (AAMDCs), and Air Defense and Airspace Management (ADAM) Cells at the Brigade Combat Teams (BCT's), Multi Functional Support Brigades and Divisions/Corps. AMDPCS systems also provide air defense capabilities to Homeland Defense systems. ADAM Cells provide the Commander at BCTs, Brigades and Divisions with air defense situational awareness and airspace management capabilities. They also provide the interoperability link with Joint, multinational and coalition forces. AMDPCS components are vital in the transformation of ADA units and the activation of the Air & Missile Defense (AMD) Battalions. AMDPCS has three major components: (1) The Air and Missile Defense Workstation (AMDWS) is an automated defense and staff planning tool that displays the common tactical and operational 3-dimensional air picture. AMDWS is the air picture provider for the Army, producing an integrated and correlated air picture at all tactical levels and locations. AMDWS is also an integral component of Integrated Base Defense. AMDWS provides an interoperability link to multinational air defense forces; (2) The Air Defense System Integrator (ADSI) is a communications data link processor and display system that provides near-real time, 3-dimensional, joint airspace situational awareness and fire direction command and control for AMD forces; (3) The Army Air Defense shelter configurations use automated data processing equipment, tactical communications, Common Hardware Systems, standard vehicles and tactical power to provide AMD unit commanders and staffs with the capabilities to plan missions, direct forces, and control airspace. The integration of the Cooperative Aircraft Surveillance Sensor (CASS) into sheltered systems enables AMDPCS to track self-reporting aircraft. CASS receives position and identification data from self-reporting aircraft, to include UAS, within 250 nautical miles. The Counter-Rocket, Artillery, Mortar (C-RAM) system-of-systems (SoS) is an evolutionary, non-developmental program that detects RAM launches; provides localized warning to the defended area, with sufficient time for personnel to take appropriate action; intercepts rounds in flight, thus preventing damage to ground forces or facilities; and enhances response to and defeat of enemy forces. The C-RAM capability is comprised of a combination of multi-service fielded and non-developmental item (NDI) sensors, command and control (C2) equipment, a commercial industry-produced warning system, and a modified U.S. Navy intercept system (Land-based Phalanx Weapon System (LPWS)), all connected via a wireless local area network. The Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control (FAAD C2) system, also under the management of the C-RAM Program Directorate, provides the C-RAM C2 functionality and has been enhanced to integrate the sensors, weapons, and warning systems for the C-RAM SoS. C-RAM C2 software correlates RAM sensor data, evaluates the threat, provides early warning, directs engagements, and cues counterfire systems and reaction forces. The C-RAM SoS capability is currently deployed at multiple sites in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Egypt, providing correlated air and ground pictures to the Army Mission Command and the Joint Defense Networks, and using various forms of communications to provide situational awareness and exchange of timely and accurate information to synchronize and optimize automated Shape, Sense, Warn, Intercept, Respond, and Protect decisions. Multiple acquisition efforts are associated with the C-RAM program, including C-RAM Intercept, which fields existing LPWS guns to two Indirect Fire Protection Capability (IFPC)/Avenger composite Battalions, and RAM Warn, a horizontal technology insertion, using current C-RAM warning capability to provide early, localized warning to all Maneuver Brigade Combat Teams (BCT). The Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) capability is being developed in response to a Joint Operational Needs Statement (JUONS) CC-0558 approved by Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell (JRAC) in June 2016. Project FG5 was created to support the identification, development, testing, evaluation and integration of technologies to provide an overall evolutionary capability to defeat small Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) threats. The C-UAS system will provide the capability for the warfighter to comprehensively detect, identify and defeat enemy Group 1 and 2 light weight, low altitude UAS. The C-UAS system development involves a phased development and testing approach of Counter UAS Systems.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2018
• Source ID: 0604741A_5_2040_PB_2018
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2017 funding adjustment of $152.100 million includes an $8.200 million increase for CASS system engineering (includes cyber, data at rest, and a new IFF Response Processor (IRP) Card design), as well as a $143.900 million amended budget add to support C-UAS JUONS CC-0558 efforts to address incremental improvements to deployed capability as informed by test events at each phase. Additionally funds C-UAS to develop and test kinetic kill defeat options for integration into the Low-slow-small UAS Integrated Defeat System. The FY 2018 funding adjustment of $2.776 million includes an increase of $8.200 to support CASS system engineering (includes cyber, data at rest, and a new IFF Response Processor (IRP) Card design), as well as decrease in the amount of ($5.809) million due to the realignment of Advanced Electronic Protection Enhancements (AEPE) funds beginning FY18 from PE 0604741A (Project 126) to PE 0603327A (Project FG9, Air and Missile Defense Electronic Warfare).
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Autonomy
• C4I
• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Sensors
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Artillery
• Command And Control
• Contingency Operations (Military)
• Control Systems
• Counter Rocket, Artillery, And Mortor
• Data Links
• Data Processing
• Data Processing Equipment
• Defense Systems
• Processing Equipment
• Software Development
• Test And Evaluation
• Three Dimensional
• United States Strategic Command
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Warfare
• Warning Systems

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Missile Defense Systems.
• Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Autonomy - UAVs
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Microelectronics
• Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems
• Space