Early Warning

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Early Warning

• Mr. Mike Nadler
• Directorate of Combat Developments
• Space and Missile Defense
• Future Warfare Center
• 21 Aug 07

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Agenda

• Theme
• Current Capability
• Missions
• Future Capability
• Questions

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Theme

• This session will address how existing and
  emerging early warning systems are integrated
  into the force and the support required by
  LandWarNet to achieve the Armys net-centric
  warfare goals. The session will focus on direct
  downlink and the architecture to ensure timely
  dissemination of the target set. Additionally,
  this session will address the first detect, first
  report network requirements at the strategic,
  operational and tactical levels.

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Defense Support Program

• Strategic Missile Warning
• NUDET
• Added On
• Theater Missile Warning
• Theater Missile Defense
• Other Heat Events
• 23 Manufactured
• 22 Launched

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Space Based Infrared Systems

• Missile Defense (Strategic/Theater)
• Missile Warning (Strategic/Theater)
• Technical Intelligence
• Battle Space Awareness
• 2 HEO 2 GEO
• Greater Spectral Coverage
• Faster revisit rate
• Scanning (HEO GEO) and Staring (GEO) sensors

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Theater Event System (TES)
TACDAR
JTAGS
MCS
Classified Program

• CONUS

• In-Theater Processing Element
• Processes Direct Downlinked DSP Plus TACDAR Data
• Multiple DSPs
• Theater Warning Via Organic In-Theater
  Communications

• CONUS Processing Element
• Processes DSP/TACDAR In Centralized CONUS
  Location
• All DSPs For Global Coverage
• Warning Via Communications Relays to Theater

• Other Processing Element
• Processes a variety of space based assets
• Data Is Fused With DSP
• Warning Via Communications Relays to Theater

Mutually Supporting Systems Ensure Missile
Warning, Missile Defense and Battle Space
Awareness to COCOMs
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JTAGS Communications
IBS-S Broadcast
DSP
PATRIOT
DSP
AWACS
IBS-I Broadcast
TBM
AEGIS
T h e a t e r U s e r s
IBS-S Injection Node
C2 NODES
JSTARS
VOICE / DATA REPORTING UHF SATCOM SINCGARS MSE /
TRITAC
Direct TAB 37 Connection
ATACMS
GCCS
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MCS Communications
IBS-S Broadcast
DSP
DSP
DSP
PATRIOT
AWACS
IBS-I Broadcast
AEGIS
T h e a t e r U s e r s
TBM
IBS-S Injection Node
RGS
C2 NODES
JSTARS
RGS
IBS-I Injection Node
ATACMS
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Near Term Alternative Concepts

• Improved in-theater message distribution
• Improved product distribution
• Machine to machine to lower echelons
• Data assurance
• Redundancy
• Multiple Paths
• Survivability
• Timeliness
• Bridging strategy to future concepts

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Future Capability
DSP
GEO
HEO
AIRSS/GSIRSS
Global Information Grid Sensor Data Tipping/Cueing
Tasking
TMD
BMDS
ITW/AA
BSC
TMW
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Long Term Alternative Concepts

• Improved data distribution
• Early Warning data, not messages on the GIG
• Distributed processing
• Mission specific processing at the appropriate
  locations
• Coalition
• Message and/or data sharing

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Questions?