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Supporting Missile Defense
Volume 9, Number 1 (Spring 2008)
From the Editors
Headlines
Profile
Wanda M. Austin
A History of The Aerospace Corporation's Work in Missile Defense
Throughout the long and occasionally contentious history of national missile defense, The Aerospace Corporation has provided consistent and crucial support to every major program and technology initiative.
Ballistic Missile Defense System Sensors and the Role of Space Systems
The Aerospace Corporation is assisting the Missile Defense Agency with defining requirements, identifying new technologies, and integrating existing sensor capabilities for the Ballistic Missile Defense System. Aerospace is also applying rigorous testing and systems engineering expertise to the development and operation of the system.
The Missile Defense Agency's Space Tracking and Surveillance System
The Aerospace Corporation has provided systems engineering since the 1960s to the development of satellite systems designed to detect missile launches, track missiles in flight, and cue the deployment of ground-based interceptors. STSS is one of these systems.
Engineering and Integrating the Ballistic Missile Defense System
Since the early 1980s, The Aerospace Corporation has helped develop different elements of what is now being integrated as the nation's Ballistic Missile Defense System. More recently, Aerospace has been leading a research team supporting systems engineering for this complex system.
Integrating the Global Enterprise of Ballistic Missile Defense
The Aerospace Corporation has been contributing overarching system architecture and engineering support plus expertise in space system integration, communications, information assurance, computer network defense, and test and evaluation as it assists the Missile Defense Agency with the Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications element of the Ballistic Missile Defense System.
Ballistic Missile Threat Modeling
Characterization of the overall missile threat underpins the development of a missile defense system. The Aerospace Corporation has a long history supporting the analysis of intelligence for understanding current and projected missile threats.
Intelligence Support for Missile Defense
Successful development of the Ballistic Missile Defense System depends on critical intelligence. The Aerospace Corporation is intimately involved in developing tools to help defense system planners manage information from the intelligence community.
The Airborne Laser: Boost-Phase Missile Defense at the Speed of Light
The Aerospace Corporation has worked alongside contractors and government personnel to develop the Airborne Laser—one of the first lines of defense in the Ballistic Missile Defense System.
Ballistic Missile Defense System Testing
The Aerospace Corporation is working with the Missile Defense Agency to assess testing of individual elements of the Ballistic Missile Defense System and their integration into the overall architecture of the system.
Research Horizons
Characterizing Missile Plumes for Tracking and Surveillance
Reentry Breakup Recorder
Bookmarks
Publications, Papers, and Patents by the Technical Staff
The Back Page
Aerospace Opens Huntsville Office
Contributors
Puzzle Key
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DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A. Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Approved for Public Release 08-MDA-3566 (13 JUNE 08)
