Missile Warning System Modernization (MWSM)

Abstract

The Missile Warning System Modernization (MWSM) budget line includes funding to support the development and integration of improved Aircraft Survivability Equipment (ASE) products onto current US Army Aviation platforms as well as Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) and Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) and future platforms. On 14 March 2022 a Material Development Decision (MDD) request for the Improved Threat Detection System (ITDS) was issued by the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army (DCS), G-8. ITDS is a new start in FY2024, and will provide the capability to detect, classify, cue, and declare on existing and emerging Electro-Optical/Infra-red (EO/IR) guided Man Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS), Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG)/unguided rockets, Anti-Tank Guided Missiles (ATGM), Ballistic, and Lasers. ITDS will provide a cue, based on the threat classification, to the appropriate countermeasure system (Directable Infrared Countermeasure and/or expendable countermeasure). ITDS will improve the expendable countermeasure system. Justification: FY2024 BASE RDTE dollars in the amount of $27.571 million will fund pathway initiation and oversee a robust development effort including program management, technical oversight for an ITDS milestone decision, and execution of contract(s) to initiate Product Development. Funding was placed on the ATDS funding line because none currently exists for ITDS. A new funding line is expected to be created for ITDS. References: -Rescission of Advanced Threat Detection System Request for Materiel Development Decision, DCS, G-8, 17 December 2018. -MDD Request for the ITDS Program of Record, Aviation Capability Development and Integration Directorate (Aviation CDID), 6 July 2021. -MDD Request for the ITDS Program of Record, DCS, G-8, 14 March 2022. -Assignment of an Army Office of Primary Responsibility (OPR) for the ITDS Capability, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology) (ASA(ALT)), 18 April 2022.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
• Source ID: 0605049A_5_2040_PB_2024
• Change Summary Explanation: Addition of FY2024 funds for initiation of the ITDS program.
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Kinetic Weapons
• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Air Defense
• Aircrafts
• Anti-Tank Missiles
• Army Aviation
• Attack Aircraft
• Defense Systems
• Engineering
• Guided Missiles
• Infrared Countermeasures
• Market Research
• Product Development
• Program Management
• Reconnaissance
• Reconnaissance Aircraft
• Rocket Propelled Grenades
• Warning Systems

Readers

• Aerospace Engineering
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Munitions and Ordnance Engineering

Technology Areas

• Directed Energy