Fiscal Year	2023
Division	Research & Sponsored Programs
Department	Naval Research Program
Investigator(s)	Atkinson, Michael P.
Sponsor	NPS Naval Research Program (Navy)
Summary	Vertical launch system (VLS) fires missiles from surface naval vessels and nuclear submarines. Traditionally, many of the missiles in the VLS perform integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) to counter incoming Red threats. A firing policy is a sequence of salvos of interceptors fired at each incoming threat. In addition to interceptor missiles fired from VLS, a salvo may include soft-kill measures, such as chaff. Blue receives battle damage assessment (BDA) after each salvo. BDA is imperfect and may produce false positives or false negative. Soft-kill measures have the potential to bolster the effectiveness of salvos, but one must carefully consider the impact of imperfect BDA with soft-kill. In this project we will examine the impact of different firing policies and loadouts matched against different Red threats. One of our primary focus areas will be the effectiveness of including soft-kill measures. An additional challenge is the nature of the Red threats: the threats are often fired simultaneously in a raid and may contain different types of missiles. This research will provide insight to Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) analysts and decision makers.
Keywords	IAMD, AAW, BMD, ASCM, Hypersonic, Aegis, SSDS, Markov, VLS
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