USS JOHN PAUL JONES (DDG-53),
Aug. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- The Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), U.S. Navy and Missile
Defense Agency 's Aegis Combat System took part in a successful
four-event test of the combat system's air warfare (AW) and
ballistic missile defense (BMD) capabilities. The
Multi-mission Warfare (MMW) tests, conducted aboard USS JOHN PAUL
JONES (DDG-53), began on July 28 and ended August 1.
The latest iteration of the Aegis configuration for destroyers,
called Baseline 9.C1, also includes the most current generation of
ballistic missile defense programming, known as BMD 5.0 CU. The MMW events were designed to
verify performance of recent BMD upgrades. Over the course of
the four MMW events, Aegis flawlessly detected, tracked, and
engaged two Ballistic Missile and two air warfare targets. Each
event resulted in the successful intercept of a single target.
This test series also marks the first endo-atmospheric (lower
atmosphere) engagement of a Ballistic Missile target to demonstrate
a Baseline 9.C1 capability. This capability allows Aegis to engage
ballistic missiles in their terminal phase—as they re-enter the
endo-atmosphere—which is the last opportunity to intercept the
warhead before it reaches its target.
"Each generation of the Aegis Combat System adds new
capabilities to keep pace with emerging threats, and these tests
were really designed to demonstrate the compatibility of new BMD
capabilities with the entire system," said Paul Klammer, Lockheed Martin's director of the
Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense program. "Tremendous credit
goes to the crew of USS JOHN PAUL
JONES, who really put forth a great effort under challenging
test conditions to demonstrate the extraordinary capabilities their
ship can bring to defending our nation."
Aegis Baseline 9 provides the U.S. Navy surface fleet with the
most advanced air defense capability ever. Under the Baseline 9
configuration, Aegis merges BMD and anti-air warfare into its
Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) capability using
commercial-off-the-shelf and open architecture technologies.
The central component of the Lockheed Martin-developed Aegis BMD
Combat System is the SPY-1 radar, deployed on more than 100 ships
worldwide— the most widely fielded naval phased array radar in the
world. SPY-1 capability has been greatly enhanced with the
introduction of a new Multi-Mission Signal Processor (MMSP).
Together, the Aegis system, MMSP and SPY-1 radar provide the U.S.
and allied nations with advanced surveillance and an unprecedented
IAMD capability.
As Aegis Combat Systems Engineering Agent, Lockheed Martin leads
the ongoing development of the weapon system for the U.S. Navy and
Missile Defense Agency. Lockheed Martin pioneered the
open-architecture software design of Aegis and each new program
developed for Aegis becomes part of the Aegis Common Source
Library, which allows the U. S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency to
affordably and efficiently re-use and upgrade Aegis programing
across a variety of defense platforms.
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http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/aegis/aegis-ashore.html
About Lockheed Martin
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a
global security and aerospace company that employs approximately
112,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the
research, design, development, manufacture, integration and
sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.
The Corporation's net sales for 2014 were $45.6 billion.
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