Common Kill Vehicle Technology
Abstract
In FY 2019, MDA will focus on Multi Object Kill Vehicle (MOKV) competitive Technology Risk Reduction with industry. MDA has implemented a structured, disciplined systems engineering process to assure the MOKV is a Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) solution. The systems engineering effort will define; the requirements for a deployable MOKV, the exit requirements for the technology component and subsystem risk reduction phase; and the entrance criteria for a future development phase. The Government will develop MOKV system engineering guidelines from industry concepts, government analysis, modeling, and simulation. The MOKV concepts and identified technology component risk reduction will formulate the trade space across cost, risk, and kill vehicle performance to establish requirements that are feasible and affordable for the engineering, manufacturing and development of a future MOKV. MDA anticipates deploying this capability across the interceptor fleet in the next decade to address the evolving threat. As part of MOKV concept development, industry identified technology component risk reduction efforts that support their concepts. In FY 2019, MDA will continue risk reduction for selected kill vehicle and carrier vehicle component and subsystem technologies that lower development risk, leading to follow-on interoperability hardware-in-the loop laboratory demonstrations. MOKV technology risk reduction efforts include engagement management, communications, seekers and advanced sensors, divert attitude and control systems, integrated avionics, and inertial measurement units. As part of further enhancing MOKV component risk reduction, kill vehicle and carrier vehicle subsystems will be matured together to conduct interoperability hardware-in-the-loop laboratory demonstrations of performance, functionality and interfaces. A number of components will be integrated into the kill vehicle demonstrations to show operating functions and performance against simulated threats. Avionics will demonstrate relevant through put and navigation accuracy. Seeker telescope and sensor packaging will confirm frame rate speed, and achieve pixel density and sensitivity to acquire and track threat objects. Communication and antenna packaging will indicate transmission power and receiver sensitivity sufficiency, in conjunction with the viewing angles that will be encountered in an operational environment. Divert and attitude control system will demonstrate the thrust and divert capabilities that are necessary, in conjunction with seeker packaging and performance, to perform lethal engagements against a designated threat object. An interoperability demonstration for the carrier vehicle, on which the kill vehicles will reside, will integrate an adjunct seeker telescope and sensor components to show larger format focal plane array sensitivity for object detection. Communication and real time engagement management operations will be tested to establish capabilities to optimally manage threat object identification and hand off target assignments to the kill vehicles.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- MD85_0603294C_3_0400_PB_2019
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