Report to the Congress on the Strategic Defense Initiative.

Abstract

TABLE OF CONTENTS : (1.0) PROGRAM IN PERSPECTIVE; (2.0) PROGRAM STRUCTURE AND STRATEGY; (3.0) PROGRAMS AND SYSTEMS; (3.1) SDS Phase I; (3.2) SDS Engineering and Support; (3.3) National Test Bed; (3.4) BM/C3 Program; (3.5) Theater Missile Defense; (3.6) Operations Interface; (3.7) Funding Impact; (4.0) TECHNOLOGY; (4.1) Surveillance, Acquisition, Tracking, and Kill Assessment Program; (4.2) Kinetic Energy Weapons Technology Program; (4.3) Directed Energy Weapons Technology Program; (4.4) Survivability, Lethality, and Key Technologies Program; (4.5) Innovative Science and Technology Program; (5.0) TEST AND EVALUATION; APPENDIX (A): SDI and the Allies; APPENDIX (B): Soviet Strategic Defense Programs and Soviet Response to SDI; APPENDIX (C): SDI Compliance with the ABM Treaty; APPENDIX (D): SDI Organization and Comptrollership; APPENDIX (E): SDI Technology Applications Program; APPENDIX (F): SDI Technology and Other Defensive Missions; APPENDIX (G): Implications of No ABM Treaty Restriction on the SDI Program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA321530

Entities

Organizations

  • Ballistic Missile Defense Organization

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airborne Warning And Control System
  • Anti-Ballistic Missiles
  • Computer Programming
  • Detection
  • Infrared Detectors
  • Laser Beams
  • Lasers
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Optical Correlators
  • Rockets
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warning Systems
  • Weapons Effects

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Civilian Systems Systems Program Capability Development and Upgrade Support Activity Expense and Pay Management.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Library and Information Science

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Fully Networked C3