MARINE CORPS AIR DEFENSE WEAPONS SYS

Abstract

This program element supports the Low Altitude Air Defense (LAAD) Battalion's missions of Short Range Air Defense (SHORAD), Medium Range Air Defense and provides the Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) to include; maneuver forces, bases, posts and stations, the necessary force protection to defeat the full spectrum of threats associated with the Marine Corps Low-Altitude Air Defense mission, to include hostile aerial threats from Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). With the proliferation of both military and commercial UAS platforms, the program is pursuing and acquiring more lethal and survivable GBAD Future Weapons System platforms; such as JLTV's with armored protection and better maneuverability than a HMMWV, providing increased Counter-UAS capabilities now and continually spiraling out increasing capability for the foreseeable future. The Medium Range Intercept Capability (MRIC) will provide a capability to defend fixed and operationally fixed sites primarily against threat subsonic/supersonic cruise missiles; secondarily against UAS and other aerial threats that enter into the MRIC's Weapons Engagement Zone (WEZ). The system will be integrated into the Integrated Air Missile Defense (IAMD) Family of Systems (FoS) to facilitate a defense-in-depth against aerial threats

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2022
Source ID
0605520M_7_1319_PB_2022
Change Summary Explanation
Ground Based Air Defense decreases $59.300M from FY 2021 to FY 2022 due to the completion of development and integration of the MADIS Increment 1 to support system integration and verification tests as well as Operational Assessment (OA) in FY 2022. The decrease is also due to the completion of development and integration of the Medium Range Intercept Capability (MRIC) prototype in order to support live fire and tracking exercises in FY 2022. In FY 2022 MRIC is in a new project (PU 2578) in order to provide greater transparency. MRIC is a separate capability set and distinct from MADIS FoS. FY 2021 delta from the previous budget submission of $7.846M is due to the rescope of tracking and live fire exercises of the MRIC prototype as well as a reduction in quantity of missiles and canisters utilized for test.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Command And Control
  • Control Systems
  • Cruise Missiles
  • Defense Systems
  • Force Protection
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Product Development
  • Short Range Air Defense
  • Software Development
  • Software Prototyping
  • System Of Systems
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Verification Tests

Readers

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  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Hypersonics

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