Command & Control, Battle Management, Communications (C2BMC)

Abstract

This project funds the development, deployment and operational support of C2BMC capabilities required for Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) planning, situational awareness, sensor management, and engagement coordination. C2BMC capabilities are traceable to baselined BMDS specifications and associated Element specifications to ensure the BMDS functions as an integrated system. C2BMC development activities culminate in three key events: simulation-based verification focused on integration testing with other BMDS elements; Site Activation Testing; and BMDS Ground Testing verifying delivery of functioning operational software packages for designated spiral deliveries to the warfighter. Designated Capability Deliveries include: The Robust Medium-Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM) Defense / Improved Discrimination European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) Phase 1 and 2 (Spiral 6.4) is currently deployed, providing improved battle management capabilities and Planner updates. C2BMC continues to develop/update MRBM Defense/EPAA Phase 1 and 2 (Spiral 6.4) capabilities to address joint emergent warfighter operational requirements. Enhanced Homeland Defense (Spiral 8.2-1) has completed development and is currently undergoing verification testing prior to FY 2018 fielding. This spiral provides the following critical Homeland Defense capabilities: increased Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) battlespace, improved threat tracking using multiple sensors communicating via Link 16, enhanced sensor tasking to meet track quality and discrimination timeliness requirements, space situational awareness tasking support, and improved cyber capabilities. Enhanced Homeland Defense (Spiral 8.2-1) integrates the BMDS Overhead Persistent Infra-Red (OPIR) Architecture (BOA) with the BMDS to enhance BMDS missile-tracking capabilities through earlier cueing of radars and weapon systems. Fulfilling Presidential mandate, EPAA Phase 3/Engage-on-Remote (EOR) (Spiral 8.2-3) is in development and will provide EPAA Phase 3/ EOR capability in FY 2019. EPAA Phase 3/EOR (Spiral 8.2-3) will deliver critical sensor management capability, greater engagement flexibility, and a five-fold improvement in Aegis BMD defended area by enabling Aegis to use Army Navy/Ground Transportable Radar Surveillance model 2 (AN/TPY-2) data for EOR engagements. EPAA Phase 3/EOR (Spiral 8.2-3) will also improve OPIR-based cueing. C2BMC is in preliminary design review for Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) Control for Homeland Defense (Spiral 8.2-5). LRDR for Homeland Defense (Spiral 8.2-5) is scheduled for delivery in CY 2020 to support the fielding of LRDR into the BMDS. This spiral will increase homeland and regional defense capabilities by leveraging C2BMC's ability to perform sensor management and synthesize LRDR sensor data into the BMD System tracking capability and providing LRDR-based information to GMD Fire Control (GFC) and other BMDS elements. LRDR for Homeland Defense (Spiral 8.2-5) will integrate the BMDS with the new Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS). Related disciplines provide development and deployment support to C2BMC system capabilities, including the following: C2BMC International Partner system engineering is vital to ensure friends and allies are integrated to the fullest extent possible with U.S. BMDS capabilities. Collaborative system engineering, testing and fielding facilitate interoperability with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and partner nations such as Israel and Japan. C2BMC works with these nations to define and document international interfaces that are compatible with international standards and traceable to U.S. BMDS requirements. C2BMC participates in test events and live fire exercises hosted by international partners to ensure U.S. missile defense weapons, sensors and C2 systems are interoperable with international systems. C2BMC maintains and upgrades the U.S./NATO secure data sharing gateways located at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, for missile defense operations and training. C2BMC also supports development of Japan's BMD requirements to ensure interoperability of Japanese and U.S. BMD systems (sensors, shooters, command and control (C2)) resulting in an integrated regional, operational, and strategic defense of Japan. C2BMC Modeling and Simulation (M&S) maintains BMDS simulation/stimulation tools and federated models to support development and verification of deployed C2BMC Spirals. The BMDS C2BMC Model (BCM) is used for Flight Test pre-mission analysis and exercises to represent a second C2 Suite for Cross-Area of Responsibility (XAOR) functionality, and supports development and integration of GMD, AN/TPY-2, and Aegis software and models. The BCM program provides a cost effective means to assess and explore the performance space of the BMDS beyond what can be physically tested. The C2BMC Program Element also develops the following evolutionary capabilities: C2BMC leverages BOA enhancements to enable the BMDS to keep pace with emerging threats. C2BMC develops, integrates, and tests advanced algorithms to improve discrimination capabilities and enhance the use of space-based sensor data. BOA fuses worldwide coverage of multiple SBIRS and Intelligence Community sensor data into precision three-dimensional missile tracks which C2BMC uses for radar and fire control cueing. BMDS Overhead Persistent Infra-Red Architecture software version 5.1 will provide initial boost phase tracking when delivered to the warfighter with C2BMC Enhanced Homeland Defense (Spiral 8.2-1) in FY 2018. BMDS Overhead Persistent Infra-Red Architecture software version 6.1 will extend discrimination target tracking by adding wideband sensors when delivered with EPAA Phase 3/EOR (Spiral 8.2-3) in FY 2019. Post Intercept Assessment (PIA) is a BMDS capability that improves engagement effectiveness by synthesizing BMDS sensor multi-phenomenology tracking and discrimination data, communicating specific cueing and tasking messages, and implementing data analysis and decision logic tasks. Through a time-phased approach, each BMDS Element incrementally develops their contributions to the PIA solution. C2BMC's primary contributions to PIA include sensor and weapon system interfaces, sensor cueing/tasking, improved track processing, development and integration of multi-phenomenology physics-based prediction models, and the assessment decision logic and integrated display for the BMDS. MDA will leverage existing sensors and ground infrastructure/C2 to quickly demonstrate and deploy a detection and warning capability in support of Hypersonic Defense. MDA's discrimination improvements effort will develop and field integrated Element capabilities to improve BMD System ability to identify lethal and non-lethal objects. In conjunction with the discrimination improvements effort, C2BMC will continue to work to integrate LRDR into the BMDS.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2018
• Source ID: MD01_0603896C_4_0400_PB_2018

Tags

Readers

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

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Cyber - Quantum
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Hypersonics
• Space
• Space - Space Objects