ABSTRACT
Surveillance, Acquisition, Tracking and Kill Assessment (SATKA) including sensing of information for initiation of the defense engagement and for battle management and assessment of the status of forces before and during a defense engagement against nuclear ballistic missiles. The goal of this program is to develop and demonstrate the capabilities needed to detect, track and discriminate objects in all phases of the ballistic missile trajectory. The goal of the Directed Energy Technology Program is to bring the most promising concepts for boost and post-boost phase intercept to an equivalent technical maturity in the early 1990s. Technology programs are planned for endoatmospheric and exoatmospheric interceptor designs, a hypervelocity launcher design, and the systems engineering and analysis required to integrate the various advanced subsystems and components into effective system constructs. Hardware development and flight test demonstration of a number of kinetic energy weapons system designs will also be undertaken as part of this program.
