Aegis BMD Test

Abstract

The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) mission is to deliver an enduring, operationally effective and supportable BMD capability to defend the nation, deployed forces, friends and allies, and to increase this capability by delivering evolutionary improvements as part of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) upgrades. The Aegis BMD element of the BMDS capitalizes upon and evolves from the existing United States Navy Aegis Weapons System (AWS) and Standard Missile (SM) infrastructures. Aegis BMD provides a forward-deployable, mobile capability to detect and track Ballistic Missiles of all ranges, and the ability to destroy Short-Range Ballistic Missiles (SRBMs), Medium-Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBMs), and Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBMs) in the midcourse phase of flight and shorter range missiles in the terminal phase of flight. Aegis BMD also provides a Long Range Surveillance and Track (LRS&T) capability to the BMDS. Upgrades to both the Aegis BMD Weapon System and the SM-3 configuration enable Aegis BMD to provide effective, supportable defensive capability against longer range, more sophisticated threats and an enduring Aegis Ashore defensive capability. Proving Missile Defense: - Working with the Services' Agency level BMDS Operational Test Agency (OTA) Team, with the support of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), MDA has developed a test program to improve confidence in missile defense capabilities under development and ensure the capabilities transferred to the warfighter are operationally effective, suitable, and survivable. - As part of the Agency's rigorous test program, System Pre-Flight predictions provide confidence in test execution by predicting element performance and exercising element interfaces. System Post-Flight Reconstruction replicates the BMDS configuration, actual environmental conditions, and target dynamics observed in flight to anchor modeling and simulation (M&S) results. - The IMTP is event-oriented and extends until the collection of all identified data is completed to ensure adequate test investments.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2018
Source ID
0604878C_4_0400_PB_2018
Change Summary Explanation
The increase in FY2018 from PB17 to PB18 is in support of flight test schedule in IMTP.
Service Agency Name
Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Cost Analysis
  • Defense Systems
  • Engineering
  • Flight Testing
  • Homeland Defense
  • Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles
  • Medium Range Ballistic Missiles
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Short Range Ballistic Missiles
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training

Readers

  • Missile Defense Systems.

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