Ballistic Missile Defense Midcourse Defense Segment Test

Abstract

Ballistic Missile Defense Midcourse Defense Segment Test provides flight and ground testing of Ground Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) functionality to demonstrate Enhanced Homeland Defense capabilities against long-range threats. The GMD components are tested in an integrated environment with Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) sensors; Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC); Warfighters; and national collection assets to assess the ability to defend the United States and its territories against ballistic missile attack. Primary programs include Resources, Flight Test Execution, Ground Test Execution and Program Operations for which detailed descriptions and accomplishments are provided in section B.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2021
• Source ID: 0604887C_4_0400_PB_2021
• Change Summary Explanation: Decrease in FY 2021 is in accordance with the IMTP Version 21.1.
• Service Agency Name: Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber
• Human Systems
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Ballistic Missiles
• Battle Management
• Command And Control
• Configuration Management
• Contracts
• Defense Systems
• Deployment
• Engineering
• Ground Based
• Homeland Defense
• Infrastructure
• Maintenance
• Midcourse Defense
• Security
• Test And Evaluation
• United States
• Vehicles

Readers

• Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

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