GBI Testbed EKV Hardness Assessment and Hardness Enhancements

The Missile Defense Agency has developed a set of nuclear requirements to be used as design criteria for all ballistic missile defense elements. These design criteria provide three levels of increasing survivability. The current GMD GBI EKV was not designed to meet the MDA survivability criteria and no effort to determine the extent to which the current design meets MDA STD 001 has been made. Our effort is a cost effective engineering based method for assessing the impact that the MDA STD nuclear environments has on the EKV subsystems and ultimately can be used to assess the survivability probability of the EKV subsystems after exposure to the new MDA criteria. The assessment will also include definition of technology development programs needed to address EKV deficiencies. This effort is focused on the GMD GBI EKV and will be cooperatively performed in coordination with the GBI Program Office, Boeing and Raytheon.