Capability Development Program
Abstract
The Capability Development Program provides engineering support to enable compliance with BMD System Specification threat capabilities and to address advanced threats prevalent in 2016 and beyond. This task includes the redesign of select components to address obsolescence and to improve reliability of the system. This task initiates electronic protection and objective debris mitigation development efforts to reduce or eliminate the effect of corporate clutter and electronic attack on sensors. It initiates studies to assess Gallium Nitride (GaN) next generation Transmit/Receive module technology and transition the AN/TPY-2 production line from Gallium arsenide (GaAs) components to GaN components. It develops, designs and tests sensor Mid-Term discrimination improvements for X-Band radars, to include Sea-based X-band radar (SBX) threat discrimination improvements. It also performs object classification performance updates to UEWR radars. This effort funds participation in far-term discrimination improvement threat model specifications and develops discrimination and countermeasure mitigation capability development. Additional software development activities include support to THAAD Launch on Remote (LoR) capability and X86 performance optimization to enhance processing speed. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- c36116af3ae349ebc182e3b242353254