Hypersonic Defense

Abstract

Strategic competitors and regional adversaries are heavily investing in hypersonics, both offense and defense, and currently have operational hypersonic strike and defensive systems deployed. These are challenging realities of the emerging missile threat environment that U.S. missile defense policy, strategy, and capabilities must address. These competitors continue to expand the capability and capacity of their offensive and defensive hypersonic missile inventories for both strategic and regional hypersonic missiles. Rogue nations have also demonstrated hypersonic missiles in flight tests. The Hypersonic Defense (HD) Program Element (PE) includes executing systems engineering activities, upgrading existing systems, investing in new technologies and maturation, and developing new regional defensive capabilities. Missile Defense Agency's counter hypersonic threats strategy includes leveraging existing systems, delivering an initial regional layered defense capability, and increasing defense capabilities in the future. Activities enabling this strategy are the following: - Develop a regional Glide Phase Intercept (GPI) capability to engage hypersonic threats during the glide phase of flight - Integrate existing and new overhead sensors like the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor to track and support intercepts to counter hypersonic threats - Update existing Ballistic Missile Defense System Overhead Architecture (BOA) to use information from satellites to create tracks on hypersonic threats - Modify existing Aegis SPY radar, fire control, and communications, as well as Command & Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) for track and warning of hypersonic threats - Execute systems engineering for HD (architecture analysis, technology prioritization, requirements development, planning, analysis) - Partner with the Services and other agencies to leverage work on common technologies, test infrastructure, weapon development, testing, and war-gaming - Partner with Allies where possible

Document Details

Document Type: Project
Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
Source ID: MD29_0604181C_4_0400_PB_2024

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Readers

Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

Hypersonics
Space

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