Improved Homeland Defense (HLD) Interceptors
Abstract
Improved Homeland Defense Interceptor provides for capability improvements to the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) component of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). Improvements will include design work for reliability and performance updates common to the current Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) and GMD Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) (leveraging Common Kill Vehicle Technology) built with a modular, open architecture and designed to common interfaces and standards, making upgrades easier and broadening the vendor and supplier base. Additionally, the GMD RKV will address the following three areas: design to the evolving threat for increased performance; improve reliability, availability, performance and producibility; and increase in-flight communications to improve usage of off-board sensors information and situational awareness to combatant commanders for enabling improvements in tactics such as shoot-assess-shoot. To fully comprehend the planned GMD RKV improvements, GMD will develop and deploy improvements to the Ground Systems architecture for increased in-flight communications and both GMD RKV and fire control software to improve the effectiveness of on-board and off-board communication and discrimination.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- a0c642d973d3344714f7b2f5ed214ede