Accession Number:

ADA421988

Title:

Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Ballistic Missile Defense Phase III: Modeling and Simulation

Descriptive Note:

Final technical rept. for 2003

Corporate Author:

DEFENSE SCIENCE BOARD WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Welch, Larry D.
• Graham, William

Report Date:

2004-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

95.0

Abstract:

This report covers Phase III of the work of the Defense Science Board DSB Task Force on Missile Defense. Phase I examined mid-course discrimination. Phase II, a 2002 DSB Summer Study, examined the four issues shown in the chart above. Following completion of the Phase II report, the Director, Missile Defense Agency MDA asked the Task Force to examine modeling and simulation MS. The Under Secretary Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics USDATL concurred. The request was further refined to the five areas shown. After a brief introduction, this report will cover each of the five issues in turn.

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
• *GUIDED MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS
• SIMULATION
• ANTIMISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS
• BOOST PHASE
• TASK FORCES
• LOGISTICS
• BALLISTIC MISSILE INTERCEPT SYSTEMS
• MIDCOURSE DEFENSE

Subject Categories:

• Antimissile Defense Systems

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE