MDA invites industry proposals to improve planned C2BMC spiral upgrades

摘要

The Missile Defense Agency is asking industry for ideas on how to improve the Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) system, eyeing new enhancements for potential incorporation in planned upgrades of the global system of workstations, servers, network equipment and software that collectively ties together the $202 billion Ballistic Missile Defense System. On Dec. 14, MDA posted an "advanced research opportunity" solicitation for C2BMC inviting "innovative technical approach concept 'white' papers that address operationally focused C2BMC capabilities and/or agile mechanisms to monitor, acquire, track, and engage adversary weapons during any phase of an attack." MDA spends more than $500 million annually on C2BMC which provides persistent acquisition, tracking, cueing, discrimination, and fire-control quality data to the Aegis ballistic missile defense system, the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense and Patriot systems as well as coalition partners ~ in support of both homeland and regional defense. "Funding of research within C2BMC areas of interest has been determined by funding constraints and priorities set during the fiscal year 2021 -2022 (FY21 -22) budget cycles," states the solicitation.