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Space and Missile

Defense Update

LTG James DickinsonCommanding General, USASMDC/ARSTRAT

SMD Symposium

6 August 2019

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Joint Battle Command Platform

Army Space Support Teams (ARRST) PNT Situational Awareness

Army Space Training Kit

Joint Tactical Ground Stations (JTAGS)

Wideband SATCOMOperations Centers (WSOC)

Need to Integrate, Normalize, Institutionalize Space Across the Army

JFCC IMD Ops Center

Essential Space Capabilities & Applications

Warning & Situational Awareness

C3

PNT

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Command1st Space Brigade

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Space and Multi-Domain Operations

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CONCEPT

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Army Space Capabilities:

Small Satellites

Kestrel Eye2017-2018

SNaP I2013

SMDC-ONE 2010

SNaP JCTD2015

COMMUNICATIONSSMALL SATELLITE

EXPERIMENTS

Imagery (Notional)

Point &

Click

Tasking

Simple

Ground

StationSatellites

on Orbit

Launch

Distribution to

Warfighter

2019-2020s

Gunsmoke

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Polaris

Lonestar

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CommandAPNT Cross-Functional Team

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Tactical Space Line of Effort

The APNT CFT will develop and integrate a strategy to provide low earth orbit-based capabilities

that will enable diverse warfighter operations in anti-access/area denial environments

* Reconnaissance, Surveillance, Target Acquisition / Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance

RSTA / ISR

• Kestrel Eye

• Gunsmoke

Battle Management / Command & Control

• Sensor-to-Shooter

• Tip and Cue

• Tactical Ground Station / Uplink / Downlink

Positioning, Navigation, and Timing

• Allied Global Navigation Satellite System

(GNSS) solutions

• Other signals of Interest

Communications

• Mega-Constellation

• Ground Terminal

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Command Army High Altitude Capabilities

Space in depth including HA platforms and LEO satellites

• Will ensure warfighters have continuous space-like capabilities and effects

• Lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air systems

• Attributes: long duration, station keeping, 60,000 – 100,000 ft

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Zephyr

Station Keeping Airships

HAA-High Altitude Long

Endurance - DemonstratorHigh Altitude Shuttle System

Combat SkySatGlobal Observer

HiSentinel 80

Phantom Eye

SMDC has evaluated a variety of HA systems over the past 15 years

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Army Astronauts

Left to right:

Astronaut Candidate MAJ Frank Rubio (M.D.)LTC Anne C. McClainCOL Andrew “Drew” R. Morgan (M.D.)

COL (Ret.) Patrick G. ForresterChief of the Astronaut Office

Since 1976, 18 Soldiers have completed astronaut training.

COL (Ret.)R. Shane Kimbrough

COL (Ret.) Mark T. Vande Hei

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Army Astronauts

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Army Astronauts

Left to right:

Astronaut Candidate MAJ Frank Rubio (M.D.)LTC Anne C. McClainCOL Andrew “Drew” R. Morgan (M.D.)

COL (Ret.) Patrick G. ForresterChief of the Astronaut Office

Since 1976, 18 Soldiers have completed astronaut training.

COL (Ret.)R. Shane Kimbrough

COL (Ret.) Mark T. Vande Hei

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MDR and AMD Investments

• C2 capabilities and CONOPS for early warning of advanced threats

• Homeland cruise missile defense acquisition authority

• THAAD battery requirements

• AEGIS destroyer conversion plan to full missile defense capable

• Accelerate tracking and discrimination

• F-35 sensor suite integration into BMDS

• HAWAII AEGIS Ashore

• Space based sensor & interceptor

• Hypersonic defense resources required

• Missile defense capability process review

• Unified Command Plan review

• Pre-launch attack operations

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TASKS

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Command Evolution of AMD 2028

Strategic Guidance

Global Competition

Multiple Complex, Integrated Threats

“All of this doesn't matter if you're

dead, that's why we need air defense.” – GEN Milley on Army modernization, 3 Oct 2017

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Command Air and Missile Defense 2028

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VISION

The AMD force of 2028 will provide Combatant Commanders with a flexible, agile, and integrated AMD force

capable of executing Multi-Domain Operations and defending the homeland, regional joint and coalition forces,

and critical assets in support of unified land operations.

End

State

Operating

Environment

• Multiple,

complex and

integrated

threats

• Sustained, high

OPTEMPO

• Resource

constrained

• Contested in all

domains

Develop Air and Missile Defense Capabilities

“What we fight with and how we fight”

Build AMD Capacity for Multi-Domain Operations

“How we structure and organize to fight”

Provide Trained and Ready AMD Forces

“How we develop human capital and build readiness”

Maintain Forward Presence and Build Partner Capacity

“How we leverage partner nation capabilities”

Lines of Effort

Predictable, Sustained Funding ● Investment in Force Structure ● Technology Maturation

Army AMD forces of

2028 prevent and

defeat adversary air

and missile attacks

through a

combination of

deterrence, active

and passive

defense, and

support to attack

operations.

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Command AMD in Multi-Domain Operations

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COMPETE

PENETRATE

DIS-INTEGRATE

EXPLOIT

RE-COMPETE

Space, Cyber, EW, IRBM/MRBM, SRBM, CM

SRBM, CM, CRBM, MLRS, FW/RW, UAS

FW/RW, UAS, RAM

ICBM, Space, Cyber, EW, Information Warfare• Conduct deception• Execute counter-reconnaissance• Demonstrate a credible deterrent capability

• Neutralize enemy long-range systems• Deny enemy objectives• Degrade enemy long-range ISR

• Refine intelligence preparation of A2/AD systems• Defeat enemy long range fire systems• Neutralize enemy mid-range fire systems• Defeat the enemy system through deception and

maneuver

• Defeat enemy mid-range systems• Neutralize enemy short-range systems• Maneuver to isolate and defeat land forces

• Produce sustainable outcomes• Set conditions for long term deterrence

AN/TPY-2

THAAD

Space Based

Capabilities

Patriot

THAAD/Patriot TF

Patriot

IFPC

IFPC 100kW Laser

Patriot/IFPC BN

IFPC

M-SHORAD

M-SHORAD/IFPC BN

M-SHORAD

50kW Laser

Strategic Support Area

Operational Support Area

Tactical Support Area

Close Area

GMD

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CommandAMD Cross-Functional Team

Working with Industry, Prototyping & Experimenting to Shorten Timelines

Maneuver–Short Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD)

Lower Tier Air and

Missile Defense

Sensor (LTAMDS)

Interim Indirect Fire

Protection Capability

(IFPC)

Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (AIAMD)

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concept

Patriot Radar

Iron Dome

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SMDC Initiatives

UFO22,000+ miles

1/3 Earth footprint

HA65,000+ ft

600 mile footprint

Stinger ETAK Prototype

Integrates existing programs of record with 3D printed, Government owned rail kit prototype

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Problem: Loss of UHF SATCOM creates significant impact to dispersed users.

Possible Solution: Fly-away High Altitude Regional Communications (HARC) flight packages can be rapidly

deployed to provide regional communications support to units within 600-1200 miles of each other; when

SATCOM is unavailable, HARC can augment BLOS communications on existing tactical radio nets.

HARC

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Command High Energy Laser Development

High Energy Laser Mobile Test Truck

• 10-kW laser demonstrated lethality

against small-caliber mortars and Group

1-2 UAS

• Demo at MFIX-16, UAS Hard-Kill

Challenge (FY17)

• 50-kW HELMTT scheduled for MFIX 20

Mobile Expeditionary High Energy Laser

• Multiple MFIX demos – 5-kW, 10-kW lasers

• Joint Warfighting Assessment 2018

o Two Soldiers with minimal training engaged &

defeated all targets in limited live-fire test

• 10-kW MEHEL scheduled for MFIX 20

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Command International Cooperation & Interoperability

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10th AAMDC received THAAD deployedfrom 32nd AAMDC to Israel

10th AAMDC hosted 2019 International IAMD Conference at Ramstein Air Base

1-1 ADA Soldier checks equipment in Okinawa during Resilient Shield 19

5-7 ADA Soldiers participated in IAMD exercise Astral Knight 19 in Slovenia

Nimble Titan 18 campaign participants at NATO HQ; NT 20 preparations are underway

69th ADA BDE Soldiers deployed THAAD to Romania supporting Aegis Ashore site upgrade

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THAAD-ROMANIA

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Command International Cooperation & Interoperability

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10th AAMDC received THAAD deployedfrom 32nd AAMDC to Israel

10th AAMDC hosted 2019 International IAMD Conference at Ramstein Air Base

1-1 ADA Soldier checks equipment in Okinawa during Resilient Shield 19

5-7 ADA Soldiers participated in IAMD exercise Astral Knight 19 in Slovenia

Nimble Titan 18 campaign participants at NATO HQ; NT 20 preparations are underway

69th ADA BDE Soldiers deployed THAAD to Romania supporting Aegis Ashore site upgrade

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Command NIMBLE TITAN

NT 20 Objectives

▪ Explore how integrated air and missile

defense informs policy, strategic messaging,

and military decision-making at the highest

levels of government

▪ Support allied and partner interoperability by

advancing multinational collaboration and

operational integration concepts to further

enhance deterrence

▪ Incorporate non-kinetic and space-based

effects in support of missile defense into

wargaming, tabletop exercises, and seminars

NT 18 Outcomes

▪ Tension between regional & national defense

designs

▪ Focus on “beyond active defense”

▪ Renewed experimentation with passive defense

▪ Layered collective regional defense

▪ Emphasized importance of common threat

perception

▪ Necessity of decision-making “at the speed of

relevance”

▪ Importance of speaking with “one voice” to

enhance deterrence

“NT has increased my country’s understanding of the policy and military implications of conflict with an

adversary with advanced capabilities against which there are little-to-no active defenses to counter.” - Pre-Crisis Event Survey results, Apr ‘2019

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Command AMD Highlights in 2019

Soldier-operated MEHEL demos at MFIX 19

MEHEL and HELMTT will be at MFIX 20

RTS is preparing to support

THAAD test FTT-23

100th MDB (GMD)

launched 2 GBIs

in FTG-11

Target fired from

Reagan Test Site

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THAAD firing from Kwajalein Atoll during FTO-01

BG Gregory J. Brady (left) assumes command of10th AAMDC from COL David Shank (right)

32nd AAMDC revived Roving Sands in 2018 and held

Roving Sands 2019 in March

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IBCS-968

• Army is moving quickly on space and

AMD concepts and capabilities

for 2028 and beyond

• Army space forces, I2CEWS

• Army AMD 2028

• Increasing interoperability and

integration with allies and partners

Take-Aways

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DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A. Approved for public release.

Space and Missile

Defense Update

LTG James DickinsonCommanding General, USASMDC/ARSTRAT

SMD Symposium

6 August 2019