Israeli Upper Tier

Abstract

This project provides funding for the Upper Tier component of the Arrow Weapon System (AWS) development. The Upper Tier component of the Arrow Weapon System provides Israel an indigenous capability to defend against medium and long range ballistic missiles. Further, Arrow also acts as a cornerstone of the Architecture Enhancement Plan which is a joint U.S.-Israeli effort to create a combined U.S.-Israeli multi-tier Missile Defense Architecture. In addition to the geo-strategic goals of the Arrow cooperative effort, the United States derives technical benefit from its participation in these projects and gains knowledge and experience of the Israeli Defense Forces operation of a multi-layered defense architecture. U.S. participation in the Arrow development effort also ensures interoperability of the Arrow and the Israeli Missile Defense System with deployed U.S. missile defense assets. Under the proposed U.S.-Israeli Project Agreement, the project will be jointly managed by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the Israeli Missile Defense Organization. The agreement, documents the U.S.-Israeli cost share, in which the development costs will be equitable between the U.S. and Israel with Israel providing matching funds. However a portion of the Israeli cost share is from non-financial contributions such as background information and facilities. NOTE: Planned Program assumes matching funds from Israel per our international agreements

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2011
• Source ID: MD20_0603913C_4_0400_PB_2011

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