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Lockheed Martin To Upgrade U.S. Missile Defense System’s Multi-Domain Command & Control Capability

Lockheed Martin To Upgrade U.S. Missile Defense System’s Multi-Domain Command & Control Capability

Specifications:

Name:

Lockheed Martin To Upgrade U.S. Missile Defense System’s Multi-Domain Command & Control Capability

Location:

USA

Company:

Lockheed Martin

Estimated Cost:

$157 million

Source:

https://news.lockheedmartin.com/

Introduction:

Missile Defense Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a $157 million contract to augment C2BMC’S engagement support capability for the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system that protects the U.S. from long-range ballistic missile attacks.

Features:

The GMD system includes silo-based interceptors, connections to sensors on land and sea, distributed fire control and launch support systems.

Currently, the GMD system engages a threat using the best single source data from multiple radars. The next upgrade to C2BMC, called Spiral 8.2-7, will provide GMD with a single, real-time, composite picture of threat system tracks by correlating and fusing data from a broader set of sensors, including satellites, ground- and ship-based radars.

Once the spiral upgrade is complete, the GMD system will see the same battlespace picture currently seen by combatant commanders. Additionally, Spiral 8.2-7 will also enable C2BMC to report hypersonic threat activity onto the Link 16 military tactical data link network and display to the operators.