C2BMC Program Objectives and Spiral 6.4

Progress in meeting the two major objectives for the C2BMC program can be assessed by considering the pertinent capabilities of spiral 6.4.

Following is a list of requirements needed to meet the two objectives, with the corresponding capabilities planned for spiral 6.4. These capabilities are in testing and planned to be operational in 2009.

Objective 1: Deliver integrated ballistic missile defense.

• Provides the commander with the capability to conduct collaborative ballistic missile defense planning among U.S. Strategic Command, Combatant Command, and service components.

Mature planner capability will provide for individual and collaborative planning by U.S. Strategic Command, U.S. Pacific Command, U.S. Northern Command, and selected service components. This will support deliberative and crisis action planning, and allow for development of initiating an execution plan for the global engagement manager.

• Provides common ballistic missile defense situational awareness to all leadership levels.

The command and control capability will provide tailored information products to users at command sites and to higher authority. This is designed to ensure consistent information is provided across the user set. Development is under way for information delivery on request via network-enabled command and control.

• Provides sensor netting to maximize the capability to detect and track all ballistic missile threats.

All BMDS tactical functions allocated to a combatant commander are netted on an area of responsibility BMDS subnetwork. The global engagement manager will be tied to the same network to receive, process, and forward information among the sensors and outside the area of responsibility. Overhead sensors are tied to the Northern Command network via the global engagement manager. The global engagement manager manages AN/TPY-2 via the network.

• Provides capability for the commander to coordinate ballistic missile defense weapon-system engagements.

Global engagement manager integrated engagement processing is an automated tool that suggests targets for engagement and develops execution commands. It also allows for operator input to target selection.

• Provides integrated ballistic missile defense capabilities through global grid networks.

BMDS network ties area of responsibility subnetworks together and to command centers and higher authority. This allows for integrated ballistic missile defense within and across areas of responsibility. The spiral 6.4 is expandable to include European Command and U.S. Central Command areas of responsibility. A parallel staging network provides for concurrent operations and development activities.

Objective 2: Enable global, integrated missile defense capabilities to the commander.

• Rapidly identify and concurrently track multiple ballistic missile threats.

This provides overhead detection and identification support tied directly to C2BMC. The track server supporting global engagement manager capability at areas of responsibility supports tracks on multiple objects organized by launch family.

• Dynamically adjust BMDS resources to maintain multiple ballistic missile threats in ballistic missile defense kill zone in all phases of flight.

C2BMC sensor management of AN/TPY-2 allows for dynamic adjustment of radar resources. Global engagement manager integrated processing provides dynamic assessment of tasking and new direction.

• Concurrently engage multiple ballistic missile threats in any area of responsibility in any phase of flight at any time.

Global engagement manager integrated engagement processing provides for assignment of concurrent engagement execution tasking to multiple weapon systems within an area of responsibility. The global engagement manager capability is available in each area of responsibility to allow for concurrent engagements.

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