RDT&E, Defensewide / BA 03 (Advanced Technology Development) PE: 0603173C (Proj: 3360)
PE Title: Support Tech (U)
Project Number / Title
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3360 Test Resources
| FY1995 | FY1996 | FY1997 | FY1998 | FY1999 | FY2000 | FY2001 | |||
| Program Name: | Actual | Estimate | Estimate | Estimate | Estimate | Estimate | Estimate | To Complete | Total Program |
| 0603173C RDT&E | 6,920 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Completed | Completed |
(U) To prepare for critical future active defense needs, advanced technology programs will invest in a balanced program of high leverage technologies that yield improved capabilities across a selected range of boost phase and terminal missile defense interceptors, advanced target sensors, and innovative science. The objectives of these investments are component technologies with improved performance or reduced costs for acquisition programs, and technical solution options to mitigate advanced and unpredicted threats.
(U) The goal of the Technology Development program is to develop and demonstrate technologies to insure that ballistic missile defense elements can perform their missions in all expected environments against all deployed and expected threats. The technologies can be used to enhance the performance of deployment readiness programs using an evolutionary acquisition strategy and to enable new capabilities against existing threats. This project provides for BMDO planning oversight and coordination of integrated Test and Evaluation activities and inter-element, as well as inter-service Test and Evaluation efforts and provides for test infrastructure for common ground test facilities and range instrumentation.
(U) The common ground test facilities include:
o Kinetic Kill Vehicle Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulator (KHILS) at Eglin AFB, FL
o Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel Facility 9 (Tunnel 9) at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, White Oak, MD
o Aero-optic Evaluation Center (AOEC) located at Calspan Corp., Buffalo, NY
o Army Missile Optical Range (AMOR) at the U.S. Army Missile Command, Huntsville, AL
o Portable Optical Sensor Tester (POST) and the Characterization of Low Background Mosaics (CALM) at Rockwell International, Anaheim, CA
o Naval Research and Development (NRaD) facility located at the Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center, San Diego, CA
o Hypervelocity Ballistic Range G at the Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC), Tullahoma, TN
o Infrared (IR) and blackbody standards at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Low Background Infrared (LBIR) Calibration Facility in Gaithersburg, MD.
(U) The range instrumentation includes special test equipment, data collection assets, and range instrumentation upgrades including the Kwajalein Missile Range Safety System (KMRSS) located at the Kwajalein Missile Range (KMR) in the Marshall Islands.
(U) These ground test and instrumentation assets provide valuable program risk reduction and test implementation capability in support of the Technology Development test and evaluation program. The ground test facilities provide a cost effective method of testing and evaluating applicable component and sub-system level technologies. The range instrumentation provides a cost effective capability to collect test vehicle characteristics and performance data on flight tests. These facilities and capabilities support component design, verification and validation of target realism, and the evaluation of test results. This program element no longer exists after FY95, however, the work is continued via the TMD and NMD program elements of this project.
o ($ 6.100M) Provided ground test facility infrastructure and upgrades for BMDO testing including: IR seeker hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) and testing at KHILS, wind tunnel testing at Tunnel 9, shock-tunnel testing at AOEC, sensor testing at POST, CALM and NRaD, and phenomenology characterization at AMOR and KHILS.
Achieved initial operational capability (IOC) at the AOEC shock tunnel facility and of the wide-based IR scene projector (WISP) at KHILS.
Completed full flight duplication capability at Tunnel 9.
Established primary IR standards capability at NIST.
Demonstrated increased capabilities at AEDC Range G to conduct lethality tests.
o ($ 0.820M) Provided range instrumentation, upgrades, data collection, and analyses for BMDO testing including the KMRSS at KMR.
| FY1995 | FY1996 | FY1997 | FY1998 | TOTAL COST | |
| Previous President's Budget | 6,963 | 0 | 0 | 6,963 | |
| Current Budget Submit | 6,920 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6,920 |
Funding: None
Schedule: None
Technical: None
| Related RDT&E: | Funding Dependency? (Yes1/No) |
| 1151 Sensors, PE 0603871C | No |
| 1155 Battlespace Environment Program, PE 0603871C/0603872C | No |
| 1161 Advanced Sensor Technology, PE 0603173C | No |
| 1265 Boost Phase Interceptor, PE 0603870C | No |
| 1267 Ground Base Interceptor, PE 0603871C | No |
| 1270 Applied Interceptor Materials and System Technology, PE 0603173C | No |
| 1651 Innovative Science and Technology, PE 0602173C | No |
| 3157 Environmental, Siting and Facilities, PE 0603173C | No |
| 3354 Targets, PE 0603871C/0603872C | No |
| 3359 System Test and Evaluation, PE 0603871C/0603872C | No |
| 3360 Test Resources, PE 0603871C/0603872C | Yes |
1Funding data for related RDT&E efforts that have a funding dependency can be found in the respective project summary/program element.
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| T&E Milestone | xa,b | xc,d,e | xf,g,h | xi,j,k,l,m,n | xo | xp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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a NRaD Sensor Tech Support Initiated
b Tunnel 9 Full Flight Duplication
c AOEC AIT Support Initiated
d POST Sensor Tech Support Initiated
e CALM Sensor Tech Support Initiated
f Tunnel 9 Phenomenology Support
g AOEC IOC
h NRaD Sensor Tech Support Completed
i KHILS WISP IOC
j AMOR KHILS Support Initiated
k POST Sensor Tech Support Initiated
l CALM Sensor Tech Support Completed
m NIST IR Standard Completed
n AEDC Range G Lethaility Upgrade POP
o NIST IR Primary Standard Initiated
p AOEC AIT Support Completed
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