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Strategic Missile & Defense Systems

Description and Purpose:

The Strategic Missile & Defense Systems (SM&DS) division of Boeing provides defensive and strategic systems that protect our homeland, deployed forces, friends and allies. . At the core of SM&DS are proven, integrated missile defense solutions, services to support the strategic missile fleet, and innovative directed energy systems. The division is also developing several advanced missile defense systems, as well as other innovative technologies and weapon solutions.

Customers:

Boeing is the prime contractor for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, a U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) program. SM&DS also leads the Missile Defense Systems Engineering Team (MDSET), which provides systems engineering expertise to MDA related to the Ballistic Missile Defense System.

Boeing and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) co-produce the Arrow 2 interceptor and support design and development of the Arrow 3 exo-atmospheric interceptor missile – a derivative of Arrow 2 for the Israel Ministry of Defense.

The Strategic Missile Systems (SMS) unit of SM&DS is a key industry partner of the U.S. Air Force. For more than 50 years, Boeing has supported the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system with guidance, navigation and control system integration, modification and repair services. The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center and its ICBM System Division are the primary customers.

The Directed Energy Systems unit of SM&DS is developing innovative systems to address multiple defense needs and customers, including: the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator, funded by the U.S. Army; the Tactical Laser System Integrated with Mk 38 Gun Weapon System, commissioned by the U.S. Navy; as well as Maui and Starfire Optical Range operations for the Air Force Research Laboratory.

The Terminal Missile Defense (TMD) unit of SM&DS delivers PAC-3 Missile seekers to system prime contractor Lockheed Martin. The PAC-3 Missile system is deployed with U.S. Army and Army National Guard air defense units and has been purchased by several international customers. In addition, TMD is a subcontractor to Raytheon for the Aegis Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Kinetic Warhead – an initiative led by MDA and the U.S. Navy.

Ground-based Midcourse Defense

An element of the Ballistic Missile Defense System, Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) provides the United States with the capability to engage and destroy long-range ballistic missiles.

GMD is designed to detect, intercept and destroy long-range ballistic missile threats during their midcourse phase of flight. It provides early detection and tracking during the boost phase, as well as midcourse target discrimination, precision intercept and destruction of the target through force of collision. The system uses a three-stage ground-based interceptor equipped with an exo-atmospheric kill vehicle, and multiple sensors, communications systems and fire control capabilities.

Boeing has partnered with MDA since 1998 on the design, development, integration, test and sustainment of all GMD components. Key subcontractors include Northrop Grumman for Fire Control and Communications products as well as support to Systems Engineering, Systems Testing & Operations & Sustainment; Raytheon for the GBI Exoatmospheric Kill vehicles (EKVs); and Orbital Sciences Corporation who supplies the GBI Booster vehicles. Boeing continues to lead the industry team under the development and sustainment contract, building on the company’s experience of supporting MDA as prime contractor for the program.

Under a rigorous flight test program, GMD has demonstrated impressive capabilities, including the ability to shoot down an incoming ballistic warhead. The system has achieved a total of eight successful intercept tests, including three successful intercept tests with operationally configured interceptors. Boeing also continues development of the two-stage interceptor to provide a hedge against the long-range ballistic missile threat. Boeing and MDA have executed a successful two-stage launch, fly-out and data collection mission.

A total of 30 ground-based interceptors were deployed at the end of 2010 and are emplaced at Fort Greely, Alaska and Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Fire control, battle management, planning, tasking and threat analysis take place via a dual-node, human-in-control interface located in Fort Greely, Alaska, and Colorado Springs, Colo. Warfighters of the 49th Missile Defense Battalion at Fort Greely and of the 100th Missile Defense Brigade at Colorado Springs operate the system.

GMD incorporates decades of research, development, test and evaluation on proven “hit-to-kill” and other advanced technologies. GMD system elements reach across 12 time zones and are linked by a terrestrial communication system consisting of over 20,000 miles of fiber optic cable as well as a redundant satellite communications network.

Arrow

The Arrow Weapon System is Israel’s national missile defense system, using the two-stage Arrow 2 interceptor to destroy an incoming target with a fragmentation warhead. Short- and medium-range ballistic missile threats require prompt and effective self-defense capabilities; Arrow provides Israel with flexible and cost-effective protection from ballistic missile threats. The Arrow program has been a cooperative effort between MDA and the Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMOD) since 2002.

Arrow 3, the newest addition to the Arrow Weapon System, is the upper tier in the Arrow family of weapons that incorporates new communications, guidance and seeker technology to combat a continually advancing threat. The threat of more sophisticated missiles, including the threat of weapons of mass destruction, requires a multi-tiered approach. Arrow 3, also a two-stage interceptor, will destroy an incoming target with an exo-atmospheric kill vehicle and provide additional defense capability for evolving threats. Other system elements are a launch control center, fire-control radar and battle management center. The Arrow 3 Interceptor executed a successful fly-out test in early 2013, and other system-level tests are expected to follow.

Strategic Missile Systems

Boeing has been a strategic partner with the U.S. Air Force in land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) systems for more than 50 years. Boeing Strategic Missile Systems (SMS) provides development, modernization and sustainment programs for the nation’s ICBM force.

Primary SMS activities and facilities include:

• Boeing – Heath, Ohio, which provides depot-level repair and final assembly capability for guidance, navigation and control systems and antenna systems;

• Guidance & control sustainment, which provides engineering support for Minuteman III;

• Trainer contractor logistics support, which includes total contractor logistics support for all ICBM trainers;

• Weapon & ground systems sustainment, which includes weapon system test and hardware replacement activities needed to keep the Minuteman system viable for the foreseeable future;

• Little Mountain Test Facility, a Boeing-operated nuclear hardness test facility, and

• Field services, which provides system modification deployment across the Minuteman force.

The Minuteman III ICBM program provides a stabilizing element of the nation’s nuclear defense posture, and has long been a Boeing core business. Boeing SMS continues to deliver a variety of products and services that support the Air Force and its ICBM mission, and is developing life-extension technologies essential to ensuring that Minuteman remains a safe, secure and reliable deterrent capability through 2030. Further, Boeing SMS is developing advanced technologies that will not only support the Minuteman III, but that will also be key enablers for future ICBM systems.

Boeing is maturing key technologies for a Conventional Prompt Global Strike (CPGS) system that leverages our missile-basing and command and control expertise from GMD and ICBM system development. Coupled with a flight-proven hypersonic strike vehicle configuration, Boeing’s CPGS design provides an affordable, low-risk, near-term solution for this advanced mission.

Directed Energy Systems

As an industry leader in the field of directed energy, the Directed Energy Systems (DES) unit of Boeing SM&DS is developing innovative capabilities that apply ultra-precision, speed-of-light directed energy technologies. These technologies can be adapted to fit various defense and surveillance needs, for a variety of customers.

For example, DES is working with the U.S. Army to continue development of the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD), a mobile, solid-state laser system that will counter targets such as rockets, artillery shells, mortars and unmanned aerial vehicles. Currently, Boeing is incorporating a 10-kilowatt, solid-state laser with the HEL MD system. The team is scheduled to conduct field tests of the HEL MD system using this high power laser in 2013. These tests will demonstrate the systems’ ability to acquire, track, damage and defeat threat-representative targets.

The Tactical Laser System (TLS) Integrated with Mk 38 Gun Weapon System, under development for the U.S. Navy, couples a solid-state, high energy laser weapon with the operational Mk38 gun platform on a single mount. This system is designed to bring a scalable, highly accurate force protection capability to both combatant and non-combatant ships. The stabilized, remote-control Mk 38 Mod 2 machine gun system, which is deployed worldwide, and TLS together provide scalable effects against multiple surface and air threats. This system will advance the Navy’s capability to counter surface and air threats such as small boats and UAVs affordably and with high precision.

Boeing’s expertise in the directed energy field also extends into a range of electro-optical sensors and image processors. These advanced technologies can be applied to a variety of missions, including ground mapping, target tracking, target identification, and aimpont determination.

Boeing DES also supports the research and development community through its Laser Technical Services (LTS) business. Boeing provides research in optics, imaging and active tracking for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and its space situational awareness mission. In addition, LTS provides operational data collection, analysis and site infrastructure sustainment at facilities including Starfire Optical Range in New Mexico, and the Maui Space Surveillance Complex in Hawaii.

Missile Defense Systems Engineering Team (MDSET)

Boeing leads MDSET, part of the Missile Defense Agency National Team. MDSET provides systems engineering expertise to MDA related to the Ballistic Missile Defense System. In 2013, MDA awarded Boeing a 5-year award to continue its role as the lead for the MDSET.

Terminal Missile Defense

The Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile uses hit-to-kill technology to intercept and destroy tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and hostile aircraft through direct body-to-body impact. The PAC-3 Missile seeker provides active guidance data to the missile, which enables the missile to acquire the target shortly before intercept, select the optimal aim point and initiate terminal guidance to ensure target kill. Boeing delivers PAC-3 Missile seekers to system prime contractor Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control in Dallas, TX.

Standard Missile -3 (SM-3) is part of MDA’s sea-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. The missiles will be deployed on Aegis cruisers and destroyers to defend against short- to medium-range ballistic missile threats in the midcourse phase of flight. Boeing is a subcontractor to Raytheon, who is the prime contractor to MDA and U.S. Navy. Boeing is under subcontract to build and integrate major subcomponents. Boeing is responsible for the kinetic warhead guidance unit, ejector, environmental testing and integration.

Background:

SM&DS is headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, and also has major business activities in Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas, Utah, Washington and Virginia.

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Contact:

Dexter Henson

Strategic Missile & Defense Systems

256-461-3154

dexter.q.henson@

Jessica Carlton

Ground-based Midcourse Defense

256-461-5124

jessica.m.carlton@

Elizabeth Merida

Directed Energy Systems

703-872-4245

elizabeth.a.merida@

March 2013

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