Target Hardware
Abstract
Target Hardware included the design and build of Short Range Ballistic Missile (SRBM) targets, Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM) targets, Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) targets, and common payloads and components. It provided for support of specific flight tests in the areas of pre-mission and post-mission analysis. Missile Defense Agency`s Test Directorate is responsible for all target launch operations to include range coordination and use, transportation of equipment and target hardware to the range, and launch execution. Specifically, target development effort provided for the non-recurring engineering (NRE) development of Short Range Ballistic Missile (SRBM), Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM), Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM), reentry vehicle, and associated object systems to support Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) flight testing. It included short, medium, intermediate and long range target systems with air, sea, and ground launch capabilities as well as enhancements to legacy target systems for cost effective target solutions. Efforts included requirements decomposition, design, qualification testing, and characterization. It included ensuring boosters, inter-stages, avionics systems, reentry vehicles, payload deployment modules, and associated objects adhered to interface specifications and met reliability, mission assurance, and cost goals. Efforts addressed target producibility, manufacturing maturity, and affordability. Supporting this objective were the necessary modeling and simulation efforts, analyses, configuration management, technical interchange meetings, and design reviews resulting in designs that meet BMDS requirements. The manufacturing of target hardware included the development of full up targets and target components for SRBM, MRBM, and IRBM assets. It included integrated or component ballistic missile flight test hardware (launch vehicles, reentry vehicles, associated objects, and kits); target characterization; quality and mission assurance; government furnished equipment and services; and transportation and logistics support. Target requirements are delineated in the MDA Integrated Master Test Plan (IMTP). Future revisions to the IMTP will likely affect target types and quantities noted in the Planned Accomplishments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2014
- Source ID
- dfda80b885c2197908d0d2e3dc26b316