GBAD: Medium Range Intercept Capability (MRIC)

Abstract

The Medium Range Intercept Capability (MRIC) is a CMC Force Design program and it will provide the Marine Corps Expeditionary Force Commander a capability to defend forward deployed forces primarily against threat subsonic/supersonic cruise missiles; secondarily against UAS and other aerial threats that enter into the MRIC's Weapons Engagement Zone (WEZ). MRIC is designed as a system-of-systems and will be integrated with Marine Corps organic Command and Control (C2) and Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) architecture. The program will enhance the expeditionary force ground based air defense (GBAD) capability to rapidly prosecute aerial threats and expand layered defense of the Expeditionary and Naval Forces. The MRIC Prototype Development will be completed 4QFY22 and comprised of missile launchers, intercept missiles, and a C2 system that are able to utilize available AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR radar for surveillance and fire control. This effort informs the investment to meet the Force Design requirements to field an MRIC Battery to each of the three LAAD Battalions in FY26, FY27 and FY28 to support operations including Expeditionary Advanced Based Operations (EABO) MRIC, previously budgeted in Project 2278, is moved to Project 2578 in FY 2022 to provide increased transparency. Decrease of $44.579M from FY 2021 PU 2278 to FY 2022 PU 2578 due to completion of the MRIC prototype development and integration leading to a 4Q FY 2022 deployment decision.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 2578_0605520M_7_1319_PB_2022

Tags

Readers

• Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
• Missile Defense Systems.
• Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Hypersonics