Adaptive Agents Seeker Field of View Management (AASFOVM)

For our National Defense, countermeasures remain one of the fundamental technical challenges facing ballistic missile defense programs. The NMD has achieved its initial discrimination successes against defined threats by allocating architectural, elemental and algorithmic requirements onto initial capability systems. NMD's initial success does not mean that the countermeasure problem is solved. Current discrimination techniques and capabilities of the initial deployment systems have not been evaluated against the breadth of countermeasures available to the offense. Discrimination algorithms have not been designed for all possible combinations of countermeasures. Sensor requirements for diverse threat and decoy populations have not been defined. Diversity of countermeasure approaches available to the offense is central to these problems. FORELL wishes to take up the diverse threat challenge. Phase I AASFOVM demonstrated an agent based capability to discriminate early in the seeker decision window with concurrent optimization of KV divert management. AASFOVM Phase II proposes to (1) extend the Phase I work to Enhance the fidelity of the demonstration/test environment and (2) apply the FORELL agent technology in a Sensor and KV Architecture Design Analysis Framework for next generation NMD missile designs that are robust to countermeasures.