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USASMDC/ARSTRAT
Technical Center Update
NDIA Space and Missile Defense
Working Group
Mr. Rick DeFatta
Acting Director, Technical Center
16 April 2015
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USASMDC/ARSTRATOur Mission
USASMDC/ARSTRAT develops and provides current and
future global space, missile defense, and high altitude
forces and capabilities to theArmy, the Joint Force, and our
interagency, intergovernmental, and multinationalAllies and
partners to enable mission command, enhance deterrence
and detection of strategic attacks, and protect
U.S. vital interests in all domains. (USASMDC/ARSTRAT
Campaign Support Plan 2015-2019).
Other roles
• Army Integrator for Air and Missile Defense
• The Commanding General is also:
•Senior Commander for U.S. Army Garrison - Kwajalein
Atoll and Fort Greely, Alaska.
•Commander, Joint Functional Component Command
for Integrated Missile Defense (JFCC IMD).
•Personnel Developer, Functional Area 40 Space
Operations Officers
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Army Service Component Commands
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Organization USASMDC/ARSTRAT
Priorities:
Defend the Homeland
Support the Warfighter
Prepare for the future
Develop emerging
technologies
Sustain strategic advantage
Be responsible stewards of
the Nation’s resources
Personnel:3879 Combined
1,791 Military
852 Department of Defense
Civilians
1,236 Army Contractors
627 Personnel forward
stationed or deployed (as of
3 FEB 15)
Personal Staff
DCG -
Operations
Deputy to the
Commander
Special Staff
Coordinating
Staff
Arlington LNO
HHC
Tech CenterFuture Warfare
Center
• Capability Development
Integration Directorate
o Concept Development
o Decision Support
o TCM Space & High
Altitude
o TCM Global Missile
Defense
• Directorate of Training and
Doctrine
• Space and Strategic
Systems Directorate
• Air and Missile Defense
Directorate
• Reagan Test Site
Commanding
General
Chief of Staff
1st Space
Brigade
100th Missile
Defense Brigade
(GMD)
Army Astronaut
Detachment
Army Space
Personnel
Development
Office
Command
Sergeant Major
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Technical Center Organization
Technology Planning and Integration Cell
Canvass
Technical Center DirectorR. DeFatta (Acting)
Deputy Director
COL A. Statham
Business Mgt. Office (BMO)
D. Etheridge
Air and Missile Defense Directorate
R. DeFatta
DeputyN. Paschal
Cyberspace
M. Pickens
Directed Energy
K. Kendrick
Interceptors
Vacant
Research & Adv Concepts
B. Kerstiens
Test Execution Support
B. Manley
Hypersonics
P. Cash
Space & Strategic Systems Directorate
T. Webber
DeputyW. Nelson
Range
LTC H. Jones
Space
M. Still
Concepts Analysis Laboratory
A. Weathington
PM Kwajalein Transition
M. Sargent
Space Operations
LTC S. Smallwood
Mission Operations
M. Butler
Safety
(Vacant)
Reagan Test SiteCOL C. Brown
DeputyCanvass
Assessment & Transition
Acquisition Quality Mgt
Resource Management
A. Fields
Operations
L. Jones
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Future Warfare Center Organization
22Future Warfare Center
Director
Deputy
Institutional
Training & Doctrine
Capability Development
Integration Directorate
Concepts
Evaluation
Organization
Development
Concepts
Integration
Models and
Simulations
Studies and
Analysis
Computational
Engineering
Space
Requirements
Space Prototyping &
Experimentation
Joint-Friendly Force
Tracking
GMD
Requirements
GMD Prototyping &
Experimentation
Directorate of
Training and
Doctrine
Concepts
Development
Decision
Support
TCM Space and
High AltitudeTCM Global Missile
Defense
Operations
Directorate
Space
Training
Missile Defense
Training
Business Operations
Div
Capability Planning &
Integration Div
Director
Deputy
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Technical Center Focus Areas
SP
AC
E
Small/Nano Satellites Launch Vehicles Space Operations
• Operationally Relevant Small Satellites andPayloads
− SNaP
− Kestrel Eye
• Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) and Information Superiority
• Responsive, Low Cost Launch Capability
• Improved Ground SupportOperations andTechnology
• Continual Operational Space Situational
Awareness from the Reagan Test Site
• Space Object Identification
TE
CH
NO
LO
GIE
S
Directed Energy Hypersonics Advanced Concepts
• High Power Solid State Lasers
• Laser Beam Control
• Atmospheric Compensation
• Laboratory, Lethality& Field Testing
• Integrated Demonstrations
• Basic Research
• Alternative Payload Delivery Vehicle forPrompt Global Strike Program
Thermal Protection System Materials
Advanced Guidance, Navigation & Control
Boost-Glide Trajectory
• Anti-Access / Area Denial
• Ground & Flight Testing
• High Power Microwave Devices
• Pulsed Power Devices
• Improvised Explosive Device Forensics
• Radiation Hardened Electronics
TE
ST
ING
Reagan Test Site Targets Lethality
• Strategic Weapon Systems Testing
• Distributed Operationsto Include CONUSControl
• Supporting MDA andUSAF Testing andCommercial SpaceLaunches
• Low Cost Target Development and Operations
− Zombie
− Lance
• Target Launcher /
Delivery Systems
• EO/IR Signature Modeling
• Hyper Velocity Impact Lethality Testing
• Develop Surrogate Interceptor and TargetVehicles
• Conduct and Assess HighVelocity SledTests
Roi-Namur
Kwajalein
Meck
Gagan
Ennylabegan
Legan
Illeginni
Kwajalein AtollRepublic of the Marshall Islands
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High Energy Laser
• Defeats:
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
Rockets, Artillery, and Mortars
Cruise Missiles
Air to Ground Missiles
Rocket Propelled Grenades
• Provides Situational Awareness
Characteristics
HEL Weapon Systems Will Provide the Commander
Unique and Complementary Capabilities
Applications
• Affordable – Low Cost Per Kill
• Deep Magazine
• Shoot on the Move
• Speed of Light Engagement
• Precision Application of Energy
• Graduated Response
• Lethal/Non-Lethal Effects
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High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD)
Planned HEL Demos: 50 kW in
FY17 and 100 kW in FY20 and FY22
Planned Demonstrator Objectives
• High Energy Laser (Planned 50-100 kilowatt class)
• Compact, Agile Beam Director
360° full sky coverage
Below horizon look-down
• Line of Sight Stabilization / Active Boresight Alignment
• High Precision Acquisition, Track and Point Sensors
• Target Ranging
• Single Operator with Warfighter-Machine Interface (WMI)
• Tactical Mobility
Fire Unit
External
Sensor
BMC4I
Fire Unit
External
Sensor
BMC4IIAMD/BMC4I Node
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HEL MD Accomplishments
• HEL MD conducted three data collections events with a 10 kW system configuration in 2014
Engaged 88 of 94 (destroyed 69 in flight) 60mm mortars and
shot down an Outlaw-2 and a Boomer UAV
Collected tracking and laser propagation data in adverse
weather conditions
Demonstrated long range UAV tracking capability
• Initiated subsystem development and integration to support 50 kW demonstration in FY17
• Selected as Army Science and Technology Objective – Demonstration (STO-D) and one of only three Army Capability Enablers
60mm Mortar
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Small Satellites in Low Earth Orbit
Low Cost• Per-Unit Cost Very Low
• Enables Affordable Satellite Constellations
• Minimal Personnel and Logistics Tail
• Frequent Technology Refresh
Survivability• Fly Above Threats and Crowded Airspace
• Rapid Augmentation and Reconstitution
• Very Small Target
Responsiveness• Short-Notice Deployment
• Tasked from Theater
• Persistent and Globally Available
• Can Adapt to the Threat
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SMDC Nano-Satellite Program (SNaP)
Description
• 10x10x34cm; 5.5Kg
• 3-Axis Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem
• Communications Element / Software Defined Radio (UHF)
• Propulsion for station-keeping within a constellation
• On-board Global Positioning
• Command and Control Ground Stations
Stowed Configuration
• Reduces tactical surprise and maintains situational awareness
• Enables Mission Command on the move
• Beyond Line Of Sight Data/communications in disadvantaged
environments for small tactical units
• Supports current fielded Army radios: PRC 117 and PRC 152
Data / Communications
Capabilities
First SNaP launch in 2015
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Kestrel Eye (KE) SatelliteSatellites already on orbit or
launched on demand for
persistent coverage
Common jpg format enables
image distribution to a wide
variety of hand held devices
Intuitive software for
“point & click” tasking;
jpg images
Ground station computer either part of or connected to the Distributed
Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A) for Processing, Exploitation
and Dissemination (PED)
In-theater
network
• Electro-optical imaging,1.5-meter ground sample distance
• Low cost; one year operational life
• Ability to real time task satellites as needed
KE identified in FCoE Capability Needs for 2025 and Beyond to support Precision Fires with
situational assessments, near real time targeting, and battle damage assessment
First KE launch in 2015
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Reagan Test Site
Common East
Asia Space Launch
Corridor
Weather
Super
RADOT (5)
Ballistic
(5)
Fixed
(4)
MWIR
(4)
ALTAIRUHF/VHF
TRADEXL / S Band
ALCORC Band
MMWKa Band
MPS-36 (2)C Band
GBR-P (MDA)X Band
Ground Range Safety
and Telemetry
Mobile Range Safety
and Telemetry
Unmatched InstrumentationUnique LocationRadar
Optics
CONUS C2 ROC-H in Huntsville, AL
Distributed
Operations:
From a Local
Range to a
Global
National
Asset
Critical Missions
Operational Space
Situational Awareness
AF ICBM OT
Technology Testbed for systems,
sensors and customers
DT/OT Testing for MDA, ICBM,
Boost-Glide and Space
Today
Tomorrow
Day after Tomorrow
Achieve Dominant Capabilities While Controlling Lifecycle Costs• Strengthen and expand “should cost” based cost management• Anticipate and plan for responsive and emerging threats by
building stronger partnerships of acquisition, requirementsand intelligence communities
• Institutionalize stronger DoD level Long Range R&D Program Plans• Strengthen cybersecurity throughout the product lifecycle
Incentivize Productivity in Industry and Government• Align profitability more tightly with Department goals
• Employ appropriate contract types, but increase the use of incentive type contracts
• Expand the superior supplier incentive program• Ensure effective use of Performance-Based Logistics• Remove barriers to commercial technology utilization• Improve the return on investment in DoD laboratories• Increase the productivity of corporate IRAD
Incentivize Innovation in Industry and Government
Better Buying Power 3.0Achieving Dominant Capabilities through Technical Excellence and Innovation
Achieve Affordable Programs• Continue to set and enforce affordability caps
• Increase the use of prototyping and experimentation• Emphasize technology insertion and refresh in program planning• Use Modular Open Systems Architecture to stimulate innovation
• Increase the return on and access to small business research and development
• Provide draft technical requirements to industry early and involveindustry in funded concept definition
• Provide clear and objective “best value” definitions to industry
Eliminate Unproductive Processes and Bureaucracy• Emphasize acquisition chain of command responsibility,
authority and accountability• Reduce cycle times while ensuring sound investments• Streamline documentation requirements and staff reviews• Remove unproductive requirements imposed on industry
Promote Effective Competition• Create and maintain competitive environments• Improve DoD outreach for technology and products from
global markets• Increase small business participation, including more
effective use of market research
Improve Tradecraft in Acquisition of Services• Strengthen contract management outside the normal
acquisition chain – installations, etc.• Improve requirements definition for services
• Improve the effectiveness and productivity of contracted engineering and technical services
Improve the Professionalism of the Total Acquisition Workforce• Establish higher standards for key leadership positions• Establish stronger professional qualification requirements
for all acquisition specialties• Strengthen organic engineering capabilities
• Ensure development program leadership is technically qualified to manage R&D activities
• Improve our leaders’ ability to understand and mitigate technical risk
• Increase DoD support for STEM education
Continue Strengthening Our Culture of:
Cost Consciousness, Professionalism, and Technical Excellence
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List of Acronyms“Welcome to My World”
CNA
CIEF
CBA
WTC
ASTWG
ASTAG
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Summary
• The Technical Center is pursuing advanced weapon and space-
based technologies for the Warfighter with focus on small
satellites, directed energy, and hypersonics
• The Technical Center also supports strategic missile testing,
missile defense testing, and space operations
Questions?