Hypersonic Defense
Abstract
The Hypersonic Defense effort will develop and deliver a series of material solutions to defeat hypersonic threats informed by a series of near term technology demonstrations. MDA will conduct systems engineering activities required to develop Missile Defense System capabilities to defeat advanced threats. Efforts will include full kill chain and component allocations for requirements development, performance analysis, integration planning, and ground/flight test planning & assessment for near term and far term architectures. MDA will continue operationalization and integration of the initial hypersonic tracking capability developed under Pacific Command Joint Emergent Operational Need PC-0015 into the C2BMC program of record, Spiral 8.2-5. MDA plans to leverage the lessons learned and analysis from this capability development for the design and development of additional sensors for potential advanced threat applications. In addition, MDA will begin integrating these additional sensors into C2BMC and continue to enhance advanced threat ground processing to leverage data from these new sensors. To address the weapon technology required to defeat the hypersonic threat, MDA will focus on the development of weapon concepts through competitive development efforts with industry. MDA will assess those concepts and identify technology component risk reduction efforts for cost, risk, and performance, and refine requirements to inform future development efforts. The Agency will also enhance analysis tools to assess concept designs and provide input to the requirements process. MDA will conduct sensor demonstrations and develop sensor technology for hypersonic threats. The demonstrations build on ground, air, and space sensor technology to demonstrate capabilities to detect and track hypersonic threats. Demonstrations will employ tracking capability in all three phases of flight: boost phase, mid-phase using airborne, and terminal phase using ground, airborne, or tracking. MDA will also conduct pre and post demonstration performance assessment to analyze data collects.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- MD29_0604181C_4_0400_PB_2020
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