Shield Phase II. Transfers Successful Legacy for National Missile Defense Applications,

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to identify how the successful legacy of the SHIELD project is being directly applied to the development and transition to operations of an emergency response system for National Missile Defense (NMD) Battle Management, Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3), and how existing elements and infrastructures are being optimized to provide a functional, capable system in the near-term for use in the execution of NMD. Most NMD functions are not unique to the Air Force nor to Air Force Space Command (AFSPC). Surveillance and warning, event detection, threat assessment, and attack characterization all currently exist in AF support architectures for theater and ITW/AA infrastructures. In addition, the AF MMIII has been shown to be an accurate and effective weapon which can be of significant use during the reapportionment of existing strategic resources for defensive purposes. Data to support these functions readily flows across current operational and developmental systems in a variety of AFSPC centers. For emergency response and contingency operations, a large measure of the existing capabilities and information flow can be exploited. Development work for NMD-unique functions is minimal and integration to existing command and control infrastructures is neither complex nor time intensive. Taking advantage of methodologies used in the development and transition of TALON SHlELD to the operational 11th Space Warning Squadron (SWS), we will illustrate how these successful techniques can be used once again by leveraging existing AF systems to maximize interoperability of sensors, minimize technical risk, minimize startup and transition times, and use revolutionary acquisition, testing, and normalization structures to produce a more timely, cost effective NMD BMC3 architecture, and a 'Global SHIELD' against threats from around the world.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA319950

Entities

People

  • Christopher Fraser
  • Sean D. Mcclung

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Battle Management
  • Command And Control
  • Emergencies
  • Emergency Response
  • Event Detection
  • Infrastructure
  • Threat Evaluation
  • Threats
  • Transitions
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

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