Progress on NATO BMD

Robert BellDefense Advisor, USNATO

Secretary of Defense Representative Europe

RUSI April 12, 2016

Progress on NATO BMD Since InCa

BLUF: Warsaw = IOC

Deployed

Capability

Additional Political

Control

Increased

Functionality

• Four Aegis ships (not

one)

• Ships forward-

deployed at Rota

• ROM Aegis Ashore

• SM3-IB

• Improved fire control

system

• ASD 15: first EUR

intercept and full

Link 16

interoperability

validated

• IAMD SDP (under MC

silence)

• IAMD CONOPS

• Political Guidance

2015

• BMD Political

Principles and

Guidance for Ops

Planning

• AMDC Overarching

IAMD Policy

• Legal guidance

• CNAD study on

COI/COE

• AirC2IS-developed

Defense Design

• National comms

“gateways” installed

and interoperability

demonstrated via

Ensemble Tests 1-4

• AirC2IS BL3 MR:

stability issues

mitigated

• ACCS TMD 1.1 in

BMDOC provides

better SA and allows

for combining tracks

and “hold fire” order

Next step: STAE16

Operational Certification

(Apr 18-29)