Report to Congress on the Capabilities of the SDI National Test Bed

Abstract

This report has been prepared for the Committees on Appropriations of the United States Senate and House of Representatives pursuant to the requirements of Section 125 of the fiscal year 1988 Military Construction Appropriations Act, HJ Resolution 395, P.L. 100-202. In the January 1985 publication, "The President's Strategic Defense Initiative," the President stated: The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) is a program of vigorous research focused on advanced defensive technologies with the aim of finding ways to provide a better basis for deterring aggression, strengthening stability, and increasing the security of the United States and our allies. The SDI research program will provide to a future President and future Congress the technical knowledge required to support a decision on whether or not to develop and later deploy advanced defensive systems. The criteria which the President has set forth for a Strategic Defense System (SDS) are military effectiveness, survivability, and cost-effectiveness. If deployed, SDS will be more complex than any other system the world has seen. Its military effectiveness and survivability can never be completely and fully tested as a whole, short of the actual conditions of fall scale conflict. Thus, the National Test Bed Program was created. The NTB will be the pivotal research and development tool providing the capability%to develop and evaluate SDS architectures, human interface elements, and component technologies. The NTB will evolve in increments which directly link and support SDS integration and will eventually represent the SDS in sufficient fidelity to contribute significantly to the process of evaluating SDS for military effectiveness, survivability, and cost effectiveness without actually building or deploying SDS.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA425707

Entities

Organizations

  • Ballistic Missile Defense Organization

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Computers
  • Contractors
  • Cost Effectiveness
  • Defense Systems
  • Engineering
  • Local Area Networks
  • Prototypes
  • Reliability
  • Simulations
  • Software Development
  • Strategic Defense Initiative
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Beds
  • Test Facilities

Readers

  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting
  • Strategic Security Studies