Improved Homeland Defense (HLD) Interceptors
Abstract
The ICBM threat that endangers the United States is projected to make significant progress over the next decade in quantity of threats, in rapid launch timeline with no warning, and in complexity with the use of countermeasures. To counter this evolving threat, MDA intends to upgrade several key components of the BMDS (i.e., Long Range Discriminating Radar (LRDR) and Discrimination Improvements for Homeland Defense (DIHD)) and for the GMD program this includes a new Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) redesigned Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV). The redesigned GMD EKV will address the following three areas: design to the evolving threat for increased performance; improve reliability, availability, maintainability, testability, and producibility; and increase in-flight communications to improve usage of off-board sensors information and situational awareness to combatant commanders for enabling new tactics such as shoot-assess-shoot. The program may leverage technologies that influence manufacturing and design from 0603294C: Common Kill Vehicle Technology program.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- MD97_0603882C_4_0400_PB_2015
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