Defense Department Schedules Sea-Based X-Band Radar Modifications for Next Year

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency plans early next fiscal year to begin expanding the sea-based X-band radar’s ability to communicate with missile defense systems other than the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program, Inside the Army reported yesterday (see GSN, April 25).

The work was deferred when Congress cut the agency’s budget last year, a senior agency official said last week.

“Until the interface is designed, developed and delivered, the SBX utility to the BMD mission is limited to a single element,” the agency said in a statement. “The warfighter will not have the option to employ the SBX in any engagement sequences other than those involving GMD until this interface is delivered to the BMDS” (Thomas Duffy, Inside the Army, June 6).

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