Command & Control, Battle Management, Communications (C2BMC)

Abstract

The Command and Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) Program will provide the warfighter the capability to plan the Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) fight while concurrently tracking all potential ballistic missile threats, and pairing any sensor with any shooter to defeat ballistic missile threats at any range, in any phase, in all theaters. The C2BMC Program will also work to increase coalition partners` capabilities. The C2BMC Program will expand defense of the United States, allies, and deployed forces by continuing work that enables a coordinated missile defense against short - to long - range threats in multiple regions/theaters. Specific goals are to deliver the following, which include BMDS planning, situational awareness, sensor management, and engagement coordination functions incorporated in BMDS Integrated Build C and D specifications approved content: - Fully integrates BMD Planner and situational awareness displays with integrated intelligence information and defended asset priority schemes - Continuity of Operations Global Engagement Manager (GEM) at Northern Command (NORTHCOM) (Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center (MDIOC)) - Incorporate BMDS Overhead Persistent Infra-Red (OPIR) Architecture (BOA) sensor data for radar and shooter (Aegis, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)) cueing - Update C2BMC model (BCM), for system-level performance assessments that have been validated against operational C2BMC performance - Distributed Training System to provide COCOM exercise and training capabilities without scheduling downtime. Training Support System to provide COCOMs and schoolhouses with a flexible and small footprint training capability - Install more effective network monitoring and computer network defense software and hardware with in C2BMC Control Center (includes the BMDS Network Operations and Security Center (BNOSC)) - Information Assurance (IA) monitoring and modifications of global network devices at all C2BMC locations - Support system flight and ground testing in accordance with the MDA Integrated Master Test Plan (IMTP) C2BMC ELEMENT The Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Command and Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) will provide a regional situational awareness and battle management capability at Pacific Command (PACOM), Northern Command (NORTHCOM), European Command (EUCOM) and Central Command (CENTCOM). C2BMC will move to a blade-based computing architecture in Spiral 8.2 to support reliability, maintainability, and modularity. The Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Planner will evolve to a network enabled capability designed to interface with service and allied planning components. Improvements include support for rapid re-planning, enhanced mapping products and services, updating the Air and Missile Defense Workstation (AMDWS) interface to incorporate Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), and an initial interface with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) planning systems. C2BMC will evolve networked interfaces to expose data over the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET) providing for display of individual weapon system engagement and coordination information resulting in an integrated common operating picture across the Combatant Commands. C2BMC battle management, via the Global Engagement Manager (GEM), will deliver full Army Navy/Ground Transportable Radar Surveillance model 2 (AN/TPY-2) X-Band radar sensor control and capabilities: - Improved threat object correlation which calculates a common threat track from multiple sensors through data fusion, with sufficient data accuracy and timeliness for BMDS weapon Elements to enable successful engagements via Link-16 and Extremely High Frequency (EHF) satellite communications - Incorporation of BMDS Overhead Persistent Infra-Red (OPIR) Architecture (BOA) and upgraded Space Based Infra-Red System (SBIRS) sensor data - Improved BMD system discrimination logic using multiple sensors discrimination results, selecting the best result, and assigning object type to common threat tracks - Sensor management and weapons engagement coordination aids to direct the BMDS fight and make efficient use of limited inventory C2BMC Spiral 8.2 Distributed Training System (DTS) planning and development enables COCOMs to support large-scale exercises and training events without scheduling downtime of operations. The DTS will stimulate C2BMC operational screens at COCOM Air Operations Center (AOC), Maritime Operations Center (MOC), and Headquarters. Capabilities will support training with theater/regional assets and coalition partners, and updated simulations to represent current BMDS system capabilities. C2BMC Spiral 8.2 Training Support System (TSS) planning and development provides a flexible scenario and small footprint training system for small scale COCOM training events and schoolhouses. The TSS will integrate with Missile Warning and Air Operations Center training systems to provide an integrated training system. The Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Communications Network ties together an expanding set of sensors and weapons systems enabling the National Command Authority and the commanders at the strategic, theater and tactical levels to optimally engage ballistic missile threats including near simultaneous theater, regional and homeland attacks. The BMD Communications Network provides a robust, end-to-end, high availability, operational communications network (COMNET) infrastructure with diverse paths that quickly and unambiguously shares information across the global Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). This sharing of information is performed securely with special emphasis on preventing cyber attack via the C2BMC Control Center (includes the BMDS Network Operations and Security Center (BNOSC)). The C2BMC system and networks are protected by layered defenses that start with circuits comprising the BMDS Communications Network (BCN) that are isolated from the known networks. Where the BCN and the known networks meet, layers of firewalls, encryption devices, routers and switches each with specific access control lists (ACLs), further protect the internal systems and allow only identified and approved users and systems access to the C2BMC data. Effective network management will coordinate and integrate across diverse equipment platforms, interface with other DoD communications systems, evolve information standards and capabilities, and will adhere to the DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP). Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) services are also leveraged in providing world-wide communications. Planned improvements such as dynamic real-time network management and monitoring will enable the warfighter to monitor the connection to BMDS weapons and anticipate and remedy issues as they occur.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2014
• Source ID: MD01_0603896C_4_0400_PB_2014

Tags

Readers

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

Technology Areas

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