Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR)

Abstract

The mission of the LRDR program is to design, develop, integrate, deliver, field, and sustain the LRDR as an element of the BMDS Increment 6b in support of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Program's Homeland Defense (HLD) Capability. This capability is representative of LRDR Configuration 1. Initial fielding of the LRDR is planned for 2020 leading to an Operational Capability Declaration in FY 2022. The LRDR is comprised of a LRDR Equipment Shelter (LES), housing two radar array faces, a Mission Control Facility (MCF) which supports radar operations, and supporting facilities and infrastructure. The Secretary of the Air Force approved Clear Air Force Station, Alaska as the LRDR site. The Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) is the designated Lead MAJCOM. The LRDR operates in the S-band frequency, features scalable and open systems architecture to mitigate evolving threats, and integrates into the BMDS through the Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) system. This Program Element includes BMDS threat discrimination improvements to enhance BMDS effectiveness against the evolving threat. The result will be a BMDS architecture more capable of discriminating and intercepting re-entry vehicles with a higher degree of confidence to improve Warfighter shot doctrine, and conserve homeland defense interceptor inventory. LRDR also supports additional mission areas including Space Situational Awareness.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2019
• Source ID: 0604873C_4_0400_PB_2019
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2017 reprogramming of $+10.000M reflects an increase for demolition and remediation of Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) at Clear Air Force Station (CAFS). The increase from PB18 to PB19 in FY 2019 reflects additional data collection events to anchor Models and Simulation (M&S), pairwise testing for C2BMC lab integration with the LRDR lab, logistics data management and program office operations.
• Service Agency Name: Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Cyber
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Air Force
• Battle Management
• Command And Control
• Contracts
• Deployment
• Early Warning Systems
• Engineering
• Homeland Defense
• Logistics
• Maintenance
• Manufacturing
• Security
• Situational Awareness
• Space Situational Awareness
• Test And Evaluation
• Warning Systems

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Space
• Space - Space Objects