MDA Announces Successful Tests
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced that the MDA and the U.S. Pacific Fleet successfully completed a series of exercises that tested the second-generation Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system, which tracked and simulated engagements of ballistic missile targets. The targets were launched over several months at the Kauai Test Facility. (MDA)
The sea-based, midcourse Aegis is part of the Ballistic Missile Defense System.
In October, MDA successfully completed a Hardware-in-the-Looptheater-level ground test, conducted to integrate new capabilities into the BMDS architecture. From the release:
“Ground tests play a vital role in the development of new technologies for missile defense by providing program officials detailed information about emerging hardware and software system functionality, while reducing the cost and schedule demands that would be required to provide the same information through an extensive flight test program. These efforts enable actual flight test data to be reconstructed and injected into geographically distributed HWIL representations of BMDS sensors and weapon systems. They also support development and validation of BMDS simulations for component weapon and sensor performance, communications, and interoperability, as well as threat and environment simulations. In this test, FCE-C HWIL provided a demonstration of the ability to conduct a system-level, theater-centric defense of critical assets.”
Tags: Aegis, Ballistic Missile Defense System, BMDS, MDA