The U.S. Army was assigned in 2023 to lead the acquisition and execution plan for the Guam architecture, mention of Patriot, THAAD, SM-3, IFPC and the MRC/Typhon launcher for SM-6 & Tomahawk.
Defense News August 20 "The Pentagon is shipping new pieces to Guam’s air-defense puzzle" interview with Air Force Lt. Gen. Heath Collins on Guam, the MDA director at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium.
MDA is shipping the new Lockheed S-band TPY-6 (LRDR/SPY-7 variant) radar (it seems MDA prefers Lockheed S-band radars whilst Navy uses Raytheon S-band SPY-6), to support a planned December flight experiment to fire a Navy SM-3 Block IIA missile launched from a vertical launch system cell already on the island to target missile launched out of a C-17, no mention of which BMC to be used, presume Aegis
MDA’s role is focused primarily on developing the means to tie all the different systems together that will be part of the architecture to establish a combined command center on the island. The agency has been, for over a decade, working with the services on a standard called the Joint Tactical Integrated Fire Control, or JTIFC, standard.. “That is a standard where we can take different tracking systems and connect them together" i.e. the Army’s Integrated Battle Command System, the Navy’s Aegis weapon system and the Aegis ground system being built for Guam, the Air Force’s C2 system and the agency’s Command Control Battle Management and Communications system, known as C2BMC.
Army invested $billions developing IBCS which includes ability to integrate different sensors/radars and missiles and MDA has/is been developing the separate JTIFC for 10+ years, and hopefully will work as planned (GAO reported MDA has had problems, as have had many others in developing software systems) to integrate the different forces BMC's into one combined command center.
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Defense News August 20 "The Pentagon is shipping new pieces to Guam’s air-defense puzzle" interview with Air Force Lt. Gen. Heath Collins on Guam, the MDA director at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium.
MDA is shipping the new Lockheed S-band TPY-6 (LRDR/SPY-7 variant) radar (it seems MDA prefers Lockheed S-band radars whilst Navy uses Raytheon S-band SPY-6), to support a planned December flight experiment to fire a Navy SM-3 Block IIA missile launched from a vertical launch system cell already on the island to target missile launched out of a C-17, no mention of which BMC to be used, presume Aegis
MDA’s role is focused primarily on developing the means to tie all the different systems together that will be part of the architecture to establish a combined command center on the island. The agency has been, for over a decade, working with the services on a standard called the Joint Tactical Integrated Fire Control, or JTIFC, standard.. “That is a standard where we can take different tracking systems and connect them together" i.e. the Army’s Integrated Battle Command System, the Navy’s Aegis weapon system and the Aegis ground system being built for Guam, the Air Force’s C2 system and the agency’s Command Control Battle Management and Communications system, known as C2BMC.
Army invested $billions developing IBCS which includes ability to integrate different sensors/radars and missiles and MDA has/is been developing the separate JTIFC for 10+ years, and hopefully will work as planned (GAO reported MDA has had problems, as have had many others in developing software systems) to integrate the different forces BMC's into one combined command center.
The Pentagon is shipping new pieces to Guam’s air-defense puzzle
The Missile Defense Agency is developing a command center integrating a variety of capability for an air and missile defense architecture for Guam.
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