MTMD-Maritime Theater Missile Defense Forum

Abstract

This project funds participation in Maritime Integrated Air and Missile Defense projects with other nations through the Maritime Missile Defense Projects Framework Memorandum of Understanding of 2004 (as amended 2009, 2015, 2016 and 2020). Known as the Maritime Theater Missile Defense (MTMD) Forum, it promotes interoperability with the Navies of twelve participating nations (Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States). This project provides interoperability assessment and opportunities to Allies that directly contributes to increasing the number of countries capable of supporting NATO Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD). Engineering analysis and data analytics from MTMD activities are provided to European and Pacific Combatant Commands in direct support of theater Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) priorities. The MTMD Forum addresses challenges associated with integrating maritime Allied Air Defense in Support of Ballistic Missile Defense Operations into joint IAMD command and control. MTMD Forum nations leverage At-Sea Demonstration (ASD) test events, coupled with operational Fleet Exercises (Formidable Shield and Pacific Dragon), to integrate technology and validate national capabilities in operational constructs, supportive of operational force employment. The MTMD Forum encourages national development of systems and practices that enhance protection and defense against the proliferation of short, medium and long-range Ballistic Missile (BM) and Advanced Anti-Ship Cruise Missile (ASCM) threats through the development of interoperable sea-based Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) capability among MTMD Forum nations. The MTMD Forum enhances utilization of existing sea-based IAMD systems to protect against current threats, while measuring progressive improvement and development of compatible systems to better counter evolving threats. This project supports USN participation in a Maritime IAMD Project Arrangement focused on: (1) Battle Management Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (BMC4I) to define and develop architectures and perform engineering to address coalition capability gaps. (2) Modeling & Simulation (M&S) to establish and maintain a maritime coalition M&S testbed and to perform legacy and future systems simulation testing. (3) Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing of Coalition combat systems to assess interoperability within the Coalition Distributed Engineering Plant (CDEP). (4) Open Architecture (OA) work to develop Interface Standards and Data Models. (5) Test Planning and Execution (TPEX) to develop Test Plans, oversee exercise participation and conduct post event data analysis and reporting. (6) Operational Requirements (OR) to identify operational constraints and tactical constructs surrounding coalition maritime integrated air and missile defense activities, and their integration into joint operations. (7) Reciprocal Use of Test Facilities agreements with other nations to support Maritime IAMD and MTMD Forum-related demonstrations.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
• Source ID: 3312_0605853N_6_1319_PB_2023

Tags

Readers

• Defense Technology Research and Development.
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

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