Missile Warning System Modernization (MWSM)

Abstract

The ITDS (Improved Threat Detection System) 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 platforms. ITDS will use an incremental approach to align with PM ASE's System of Systems approach, including both detect and defeat capabilities, and integrate it onto an open system architecture digital backbone, improving full coverage against evolving threats in hostile environments. ITDS is an FY2024 (PE 0605049A) new start program applying a Middle Tier of Acquisition (MTA) adaptive acquisition pathway. PM ASE is executing this ITDS MTA Rapid Prototyping effort under an Other Transactional Authority agreement with multiple phases. The result will be a residual operational capability that will 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 munitions, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), and Lasers. 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. FY24 funding was placed on the XT4 (ATDS) funding line because none existed 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, 2025
• Source ID: 0605049A_5_2040_PB_2025
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
• Parasitology and Pharmacology of Malaria.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Directed Energy