National Missile Defense (NMD) Test Program

Abstract

This paper describes the challenging task of testing the most complex, expensive, technically evolving, and politically sensitive missile system to be developed to date. The National Missile Defense (NMD) System comprises radars, interceptors, space based sensors, and battle management, command, control, and communications (BMC3) elements. While the integration of these many complex elements into a functional system is no small achievement, the performance verification of this system is an equally challenging task. This paper describes the test components of the NMD test program, their importance to the test program, relationships among the components, and their contributions to NMD test and evaluation which form the basis for the System Engineer to evaluate and verify NMD System performance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA355746

Entities

People

  • A. Langford
  • B. Bolt
  • M. Rubery
  • Patricia Gore
  • T. Reiman

Organizations

  • Teledyne Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Processing
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Flight Testing
  • Reconnaissance Satellites
  • Reliability
  • Simulations
  • Space Based
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Threat Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Economics
  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Space