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CSA outlines Transformation to SMDC leaders by Rhonda K. Paige “People are the centerpiece of everything we in recruitment and retention due to the draw of higher Arlington, Va. do, and we can never do enough for the Ameri- salaried corporate positions. can soldier,” he said. Even with the challenges that lie ahead in all Speaking at the U.S. Army Space and Missile De- According to Shinseki, taking care of of these areas and the Transformation process, fense Command Offsite, General Eric K. Shinseki, soldiers correlates directly with the transforma- “We still have the best Army in the World,” said Chief of Staff, United States Army, addressed SMDC tion process. Even with a lighter and more mo- Shinseki. offsite attendees on the Army Transformation. He bile force, the Army must still acquire adequate “For our soldiers it’s not about the money, noted as the Army moves into the 21st Century and resources to organize, equip, and train our it’s about service. Our job is to train these celebrates its 225th Birthday, one of the primary tasks soldiers to be warfighters. soldiers and grow them into leaders,” said it faces is the “Transformation Process.” (See related He said the Army is also well aware of challenges Shinseki. story, page 2.) Using lessons learned from DESERT STORM, Shinseki said one of the major issues is the Army The Army Strategy for Transformation always ends up providing the counterattack, because · Increase Strategic Responsive- · Provide for the well being of it gets there after the war has started. He said, an ness Soldiers, DA Civilians, Veterans, objective of the Transformation should be to de- · Develop Joint Leaders, Improve and Army Family Members ploy early enough so the Army won’t necessarily have Operational Jointness, Achieve · Invest in people—help soldiers to counterattack. Joint Vision Goals achieve personal goals To get there, “we must have a prompt and · Integrate Active and Reserve · Provide the most modern sustained land warfare,” said Shineski. Key to Components equipment to maintain techno- Shinseki’s “Vision” for the transformed Army of · Develop Leaders for both logical superiority the 21st Century is people, readiness, and trans- Warfighting and Change · Commit to business process formation. He stressed people are the most criti- · Man Warfighting Units improvement/efficiencies cal element of that process. Advanced Research Center gets NMD exercise; President announces deployment delay The new Integrated System Test Capability-2 decides to go ahead with NMD, the system most likely challenging targets and more simulations before we facility located at the U.S. Army Space and Defense could be deployed in the original 2006 to 2007 can responsibly commit our nation’s resources to de- Command Advanced Research Center in Huntsville, timeframe. ployment.” Ala., will conduct the next national missile defense He noted establishing a national missile defense Gerry J. Gilmore, of the American Forces (NMD) ground exercise. The multi-week, compre- system is a worthy goal because threats posed to Ameri- Press Service contributed to this article. hensive NMD ground exercise conducted for the can national security and geopolitical interests—espe- Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) will cially from North Korea and certain Middle East coun- likely take place in February, according to a BMDO tries— are still very much present a decade after the spokesman. end of the Cold War. The exercise will be the first since President Bill NMD would not be a substitute for diplomacy or Inside Clinton’s September announcement at Georgetown deterrence, he said, “but such a system, if it worked University he had decided to delay authorizing NMD properly, could give us an extra dimension of insur- The deployment. ance in a world where proliferation has complicated In making his delaying announcement President the task of preserving the peace. Therefore, I believe Eagle Clinton said while the United States may eventually we have an obligation to determine the feasibility, the need a national missile defense system, he will leave it effectiveness and the impact of a national missile de- up to his successor to decide whether or not to pro- fense on the overall security of the United States.” ceed with plans to develop that system. “We’ve begun to show that different parts of this Speaking at Georgetown University Sept. 1, Clinton system can work together,” he said. “Our Defense AUSA insert ...... Pages 11-14 said, “I simply cannot conclude with the information I Department has overcome daunting technical obstacles have today, that we have enough confidence in the tech- in a remarkably short period of time. Still, although SMDC Offsite ...... Pages 2 & 3 nology and the operational effectiveness of the entire the technology for NMD is promising, the system as NMD system, to move forward to deployment. There- a whole is not yet proven. After the initial test suc- Space Officers ...... Pages 6 & 7 fore, I have decided not to authorize deployment of a ceeded, our two most recent tests failed—for differ- national missile defense at this time.” ent reasons—to achieve an intercept.” Defense Secretary William S. Cohen responded Clinton said there are unresolved questions about Army Astronauts .....Page 8 at the Pentagon to the president’s announcement. NMD interceptor booster rockets and whether the sys- “The President’s statement today underscores the tem can deal with countermeasures. BMDO has planned New Construction ...Page 9 importance of having the next president fully involved several more tests to determine whether NMD can work in decisions regarding the future of the program be- reliably under realistic conditions. Clinton said the na- fore committing the United States to a deployment tion may meet these challenges in the future. NMD Exercise ...... Page 10 strategy,” Cohen said. “In the meantime, we will ag- “I have asked Secretary Cohen to continue a ro- gressively proceed with the developmental testing pro- bust program of development and testing,” he said. Awards ...... Pages 15 & 16 gram,” he said. “Only three of the 19 planned intercept tests have In his address, Clinton said if the next president been held so far. We need more tests against more 2 The Eagle SMDC Offsite 2000: Setting a Course for the New Millennium by Rhonda K. Paige organization that gets along socially, gets along pro- lead the Army, it’s just a matter of getting the Arlington, Va. fessionally,” said Costello. roadmap and focusing,” said Costello. Keynote guest speakers for the Offsite were While recognizing the success of the Offsite, More than 100 Army Space and Missile De- Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, Army Chief of Staff, who Costello also reminded the group that this session fense Command (SMDC) Senior Military and Ci- spoke on the Army Transformation; Dr. James A. was only the beginning to an ongoing process. vilian Leaders and their spouses met for the Crupi, renowned author and authority on interna- “This strategy for change should be a living, Command’s second annual Offsite, in Chantilly, tional business, leadership, and the future, who breathing document; not one to be finished and Va., Sept. 13-15. The theme of this year’s offsite spoke on Leadership and Change in the 21st Cen- then done with,” he said. was “Setting a Course for a New Millennium.” tury; and Maj. Gen. Robert H. Scales, former com- Because SMDC is so widely spread over the mandant of the U.S. Army War College, who spoke globe, the annual gathering provided a rare oppor- on future warfare. tunity for command members to come together in Overviews of several critical areas of the ‘This strategy for change one central location to review issues of the past SMDC Strategic Plan were also presented by se- should be a living, breathing year and plan the future of the command. nior leaders of the command, and included Army document; not one to be fin- Performance Improvement Criteria (APIC); Army Family Readiness Planning, and several breakout ished and then done with.’ ‘We are a pretty powerful workshops, which focused on these areas. — Lt. Gen. Costello The Offsite wrapped up on Friday with a re- group of people, and the more view of the group’s recommendations, guidance we get organized there isn’t on key issues, a summary of Offsite accomplish- Costello also pointed out that the emphasis ments, and a report on the plan to implement those anything we can’t do.’ should be on doing the plan, rather than getting accomplishments and goals, from key Offsite staff- to the plan. — Lt. Gen. Costello ers and Costello. An end of October date was set by Costello for key leadership to return to SMDC headquar- The primary objectives of the 2000 Offsite ‘. . . we can harness the energy, ters with preliminary reports of how their respec- were to provide a forum for the command’s lead- the organization we have, the tive areas and directorates initially implemented the ership to report on the performance improve- plan after the Offsite. ment accomplishments associated with each stra- field that we have . . . it’s just a During this initial feedback as well as next tegic goal; to implement tactics for updating matter of . . . focusing.’ year’s Offsite, the success of the plan will be mea- SMDC’s Strategic Plan; and for the spouses of sured in terms of the organization’s level of per- senior leaders to develop a USASMDC Family — Lt. Gen. Costello formance, the organization’s trend of perfor- Readiness Plan. mance, and by comparing SMDC efforts to simi- Lt. Gen. John Costello welcomed the group, Remarking on Offsite accomplishments and lar performance among industry leaders. saying, “What we are doing here is giving ourselves attendees, Costello said, “We are a pretty power- As Costello closed SMDC Offsite 2000, he a to-do list and we’re going to measure how well ful group of people, and the more we get orga- reminded the group of the critical nature of this we do on that to-do list.” nized there isn’t anything we can’t do. If we can organizational effort. “We may be saving Costello also stressed the importance of in- harness the energy, the organization we have, the someone’s life in the future by the work that we’ve teraction among members of the command. “An field that we have, here in SMDC, we can really done here this week,” he said. Budget funds Army Transformation, military to get 3.7 percent pay raise by Joe Burlas in moving the Defense appropriations bill through The current Army Transformation plan eventu- committee in July. “We are determined that this new ally calls for six IBCTs: four in the active force, one WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Sep. force be equipped as rapidly as possible, and intend in the Army Reserve and one in the National Guard. 6, 2000) — The 2001 Defense Appropriations Act, to maintain this pace of funding in fiscal years 2002 “This is the strongest plus-up budget the Army signed by President Clinton Aug. 9, includes funding and 2003.” has received from Congress in years,” said Gen. to equip two Interim Brigade Combat Teams and a Last October, Army leadership established a John M. Keane, Army vice chief of staff. “Both 3.7-percent military pay raise. new vision for the Army—a more mobile, lethal and the proposed Department of Defense and Presi- Army leaders had requested $537 million to stand flexible force for the 21st Century. The process to dent budgets supported the buildup of a single up a single IBCT in fiscal year 2001. Congress pro- get there is called the Army Transformation. Interim Brigade Combat Team over the next year. vided the requested amount and an additional $100 Department of Defense leaders requested $118 The congressional appropriations budget adds an- million for that first interim brigade. It also funded million in next year’s Army budget for research and other brigade which demonstrates Congress’ solid $500 million to equip a second in the coming year. development for testing, integration and development support to move the Army Transformation quickly “In this bill, funding is provided to procure the of an Interim Armored Vehicle. The new Defense along.” first two brigade sets of equipment for the new Act supports a more aggressive timeline with $268 In total, the appropriations act gave the Army transformation force,” said Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens million for that effort. approximately $3.2 billion more than it had requested.

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U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Major contributors: ATTN: Editor, The Eagle, P.O. Box 1500, Huntsville, AL 35807-3801 Marco Morales, Huntsville. Ala. Don Montoya, Colorado Springs, Colo. Ed White, Colorado Springs, Colo. Rhonda Paige, Arlington, Va. Phone (205)955-1641 or DSN 645-1641 FAX: DSN 645-1214 Gerda Sherrill, Huntsville, Ala. Tom Mahr, Schriever AFB, Colo. e-mail: [email protected] Barbara Johnson, Kwajalein Atoll September/October 2000 3 Spouses map out first SMDC Army Family Readiness Plan by Rhonda K. Paige resources Arlington, Va. · Objective Four is to encourage participa- tion by soldiers, civilians, contractors, If you think the spouses of SMDC leaders at- retirees, and family members in SMDC tended Offsite 2000 for the social activities, your as- activities to enhance cohesion, readiness sumption is way off the mark. and retention. · This group of 15 came together for three days Objective Five is to develop self-reliance with the primary goal of drafting SMDC’s first Family necessary to resolve problems, especially Readiness Plan. Holly Gifford, U.S. Army Deployment during periods of family separation Readiness Program Manager, served as the facilitator Progress of the plan will be measured using these for the working group. objectives: Under Department of Army Regulation, each in- stallation, sub-command, and major command must 1. Develop a Family Readiness web-site link—to have a Family Readiness Plan in place and ready to be be measured by number of hits per month implemented. survey Formerly referred to as the Total Army Family 2. Develop a Family Readiness Welcome Packet— Support Program, the “readiness” plan is intended to to be measured by number of newcomers, shift the emphasis to a state of preparedness of number of packets distributed, and customer soldiers and their families through proactive educa- survey cards tion and support programs that promote self-reliance 3. Feature a Family Readiness Group corner in The and enhance family well being. Eagle—to be measured by a proposed “Eagle After the SMDC working group started the Cheryl Coffin presents the SMDC Family Readi- Eye Award” day by introducing themselves, Gifford briefed ness Plan to Offsite participants. 4. Develop an SMDC Family Readiness Guide— them on the goals and timelines set for the work- measurement TBD based on location ing group. The group also participated in a practi- wife of Lt. Col. Tim Coffin, commander of the 1st 5. Include Family members at SMDC award cal fun exercise called the “lipstick personality Space Battalion, briefed Offsite attendees on the goals VTC; and have the Family Readiness Group chart,” which not only broke the ice, but also and recommendations for the SMDC Family Readi- meet quarterly to measure success helped to identify general personality traits of ness Plan. 6. Establish the Family Readiness Process Action group members. Team and meet semi-annually Then it was down to the business of brain- · Initial Goal of the Plan is to 7. To enhance sponsorship program to include storming, putting ideas down on paper, and pre- Enhance Workforce Excellence family members—to be measured by an paring a brief on the draft plan to be presented to · Purpose of the group is to Develop a in-processing checklist all Offsite attendees, in less than 24 hours. framework for a Family Readiness Plan for 8. To ensure Family Readiness Plans are in place As the group worked their way through the the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense throughout the Command—to be measured process, one of the key participants who always Command by a command inspection program managed to bring the group back to its main fo- · Objective One is to increase cus was Mickey Costello, wife of SMDC’s com- families’ knowledge of the SMDC mission General Costello commended the group on suc- manding general. and the organization cessfully putting the Family Readiness Plan together Explaining to the group why their task at hand · Objective Two is to assist in the develop- and reinforced how important the plan was in terms was so vital, Mrs. Costello said, “The Army went ment of SMDC family readiness programs. of cohesiveness within the organization. “Family from family support to family readiness in order · Objective Three is to enhance the family wellness is integral to what we need to do in the com- to make spouses more self-sufficient.” readiness programs by offering information mand and how well we do it,” he said. On the final day of the Offsite, Cheryl Coffin, and referral to military and community Crupi discusses leadership and change strategies for SMDC by Rhonda K. Paige Crupi reminded Offsite participants of a familiar anal- Crupi said for any group, military or civilian, the Arlington, Va. ogy—“Business is War.” first and most important question should always be “The leader’s job is to ‘shape what might be, not “what are we trying to achieve.” In keeping with the theme of “Setting the Course serve what is,’” said Crupi. “Leaders must understand Crupi summarized how the leadership and stra- for a New Millennium,” renowned lecturer and au- the competitive forces that shape their customers de- tegic planning of the business world can be applied in thor, Dr. James E. Crupi, presented his strategy for cisions, as well as the competition that challenges their SMDC and the military, but also stressed there is a Leadership and Change in the 21st Century, to partici- own businesses.” clear-cut and vital difference between the two. pants of SMDC Offsite 2000. Crupi further challenged Offsite participants with “You, as the Army Space and Missile Defense A recognized authority on international business, the notion the 1990s power play of leaders empower- Command, have to get this right, sans mistakes, be- leadership and the future, Dr. Crupi challenged Offsite ing people is no longer applicable for the business cause it isn’t just business, it’s a matter of national participants on their and the Army’s traditional assump- world or the military. “Empowerment cannot be im- security,” said Crupi. tions about power, authority, status and achieving suc- posed, it must come from within,” said Crupi. cess. To illustrate his points on competition, power, At the center of Crupi’s philosophy is his belief and leadership, Crupi engaged volunteers in a hands- ADA dinner-dance planned the individual, or in the case of SMDC, each member on-exercise, in which strategy and leadership deci- of SMDC, not merely the leaders, is an essential ele- sions had to be made in a matter of minutes in The Redstone Arsenal/Huntsville chapter of the ment to winning in a competitive market. order to win. Air Defense Artillery Association will hold their an- He said SMDC and the military in general Crupi noted how fierce the competition was, how nual St. Barbara Dinner Dance October 28 at the should be approaching the competition as if they much strategy was used, and how decision-making Huntsville Hilton Hotel. The guest of honor and were a commercial business, and the individual in became a key factor even in such a minor fun exercise. speaker will be Brig. Gen. (P) Stanley E. (Stan) Green, an organization is the new unit of business, not the “Making decisions is easy, ‘how’ you make the commanding general, U.S. Army Air Defense Artil- company itself. decisions is what separates the men from the boys,” lery Center and Ft. Bliss. Contact the chapter secre- Using the words of business mogul, Ted Turner, said Crupi. tary for more information at 922-1680 ext. 2855. 4 The Eagle Transformation and Space Support by Jonathan Pierce According to Myers, agility and versatility get “Space-based capabilities are there when you Huntsville, Ala. to the mental preparation of the objective force. need them. It goes back to not bringing that big Small unit leaders, he says need to be mentally agile infrastructure or logistical footprint. You don’t have As the Army begins to transform itself the U.S. enough to operate across the spectrum; to do tac- to have scads of communication types, putting stuff Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) tical operations that have strategic impact—settling on the ground and setting up relays. You still have is working to ensure the integration of space and town disputes, working with local leaders, inter- some of that stuff, but you want it deployable and missile defense capabilities and technologies needed agency officials and non-governmental organiza- responsive so it can move as a part of the brigade across the full spectrum of operations. tions. combat team,” Davies said. Transformation is not new to the Army, accord- The objective force, he said, “still has to be SMDC’s Force Development and Integration ing to Blake Myers, a contract representative of the toughest guy on the block. When the Army Center, Battle Lab, Army Space Program Office, Coleman Research Corporation working with the goes into an operation, forces in the area need to Army Space Command (ARSPACE) participate in Deputy Chief of Staff Strategic Planning and Analy- understand they shouldn’t mess with us. It comes an integrated effort across the command, under sis (DCSSPA) office at SMDC headquarters in Ar- back to the fact that the force can’t be so light that various leads, and in various Training and Doc- lington, Va. The current Army transformation, he be- it doesn’t have the necessary lethality to accom- trine Command and Department of the Army fo- lieves, is an attempt to condense the modernization plish its mission.” rums. cycle to meet a real world, near-term capability gap. Survivability and sustainability have to do with Eventually, according to Davies, a lot of the “You’ve got the heavy forces that were designed against both reducing the size of the force exposed to capabilities of the ARSPACE Army Space Sup- a Cold War threat, and are great at fighting that kind possible hostilities and reducing the amount of port Teams (ARSST) will be embedded in the of war—an armored force on armored force—and equipment and supplies that have to be shipped organizational capabilities of the objective force. no Army in the world can stand up to them,” said or airlifted to the area. “The objective force can’t The ARSSTs, he said, can pull down imagery, ter- Myers. “You’ve got light forces on the other end of have this huge logistics tail that comes along with rain, and satellite transmission data, quickly the spectrum designed against a specific threat, that it. Logistics [in the past] has eaten up 90 percent analyze it, and brief a corps commander and his can get in quickly. But they have limited lethality and of the lift capacity. The way we do logistics has to staff. Those capabilities are not currently organic sustainability and almost no mobility once it gets there. be transformed,” said Myers. Instead of building to corps. “The problem is that since the Wall came down— huge logistical bases in theater, that take months “Right now we couldn’t tell you what an objective the last 10 years—the Army has been operating right to build and become huge targets, the Army’s con- force looks like,” said Davies. “We can’t tell you what in the middle of those two. It’s a part of the spectrum cept is to use just-in-time logistics. an IDIV looks like. Does it include an ARSST? We of operations where you need a strategically and a tac- The objective force also needs to be more stra- don’t know. tically mobile force that can do decisive operations, tegically responsive, he said. Instead of taking a “What SMDC is trying to do is to ensure that but is light and agile enough to be rapidly deployed,” basic division or brigade and adding capabilities those capabilities are integral to the objective force. It to places like Haiti and Kosovo, Myers said. that aren’t built into their structure the objective may wind up being any number of space officers, or it could be any number of computers that have the ca- pability to do the analysis of an ARSS team.” Space Support to the Objective Force Capabilities are the driving factor Seven Categories of Objective Force Space Support Characteristics “The important part of this is making sure the right capability is available all the way down Communications Responsive to the right level where the warfighter needs it,” Position, Navigation & Timing Deployable said Davies. “Most especially, for the things the Army Weather Agile doesn’t own, like Air Force satellites, our biggest job is to ensure that the space support capabilities Terrain Versatile that the warfighter needs are not left off those plat- Environmental Monitoring Lethal forms as they are developed,” he said. Davies and Myers agreed that what SMDC is Intelligence, Surveillance Survivable trying to do is to integrate into the objective force & Reconnaissance Sustainable the equipment, people, and the connectivity that Missile Warning will allow it to be agile, lethal, and survivable based on the operational concept of the envisioned force. And, they said, there are differences in those re- “So the Army transformation is really about trans- force will be more structured to handle full-spec- quirements from the brigade combat teams, to the forming the Army to have the desired capabilities trum operations. A brigade combat team, he said, IDIV, to the higher level force. And it also depends across the entire spectrum of operations. Army XXI has to be capable of deploying and operating on the time frame you look at as to what the force and Army After Next haven’t gone away. Transfor- within 96 hours. package will look like. mation has encompassed all of that and subsumed all One of SMDC’s efforts is the Tactical Exploi- of those studies, analyses and good ideas,” he said. Space support aids transformation tation of National Capabilities (TENCAP) pro- The immediate goal of transformation is to pro- If these seven characteristics of the objective gram. The objective, they said, is to take national vide a force that can fill the mid-spectrum capability force are its key elements then space support level information and exploit it for tactical use— that the CINCs need. The ultimate objective of trans- provides capabilities needed in the Army Trans- to get it down to the warfighter who can use it. formation is a force that is strategically responsive and formation. Space-based architectures and plat- “Great information and superb intelligence dominant at every point on the operational spectrum. forms, according to Myers and Lt. Col. Walter doesn’t do you much good if it gets there too late Transformation is about the entire Army: the institu- Davies of the DCSSPA Strategic Planning Divi- to use it—it’s got to be timely,” said Myers. tional Army, the training base of the Army, the opera- sion, enable the objective force characteristics. The idea Davies said, is to get the informa- tional force, it’s everything. The point of the spear, Space support in satellite communications; tion to the tactical commander so he doesn’t have Myers said, is the brigade combat team, the interim weather; terrain; position, navigation and timing; to make a decision based on intelligence that has division (IDIV) and the objective force. But, he says, environmental monitoring; intelligence, surveil- taken eight hours to go to national assets and fil- transformation of the entire Army is not just about lance and reconnaissance; and missile warning. ter its way down. When tactical commanders can building a new division, or even a common vehicle. “A large part of being able to project the ob- get appropriate intelligence in real time they can jective force around the world is inherently reliant take advantage of it. Seven objective force characteristics on space architecture—communications, imagery, Figuring out what pieces of information are There are seven characteristics that the objective reconnaissance, and force protection missile warn- needed at each level is important, he said. “We don’t force will need to meet the vision of Army transfor- ing,” said Davies. want everything that goes to national agencies mation. They are: responsiveness, deployability, agil- “The joint force, and the Army specifically, re- coming down to the brigade level because the com- ity, versatility, lethality, survivability and sustainability. lies on space-based capabilities because you can’t mander doesn’t need it all, he can’t use it all. But The search for a common vehicle, lighter than today’s carry it with you. You can’t rely on air or earth- what are the right pieces and how do we build that main battle tanks is largely an issue of deployability. based relay stations for comms or uplinks or down- capability into the platform and into the force...? Heavy armor is hard to move because of its bulk and links to satellites. It has to be available wherever Those are the kind of issues that SMDC is in- weight. A smaller common vehicle of 20-25 tons you go. The only way to get that is through space- volved in,”said Davies. means that it could be transported by C-130 aircraft. based capabilities. September/October 2000 5 PATRIOT hits three-for-three firings by Connie Davis of the Army’s overall test and evaluation program. fice in Huntsville, Ala. The Simulation, Training and Huntsville, Ala. Since the three missiles fired today are part of the Instrumentation Command, Orlando, Fla., manages annual mandatory PATRIOT testing program, there the targets used in these tests. Raytheon Systems Com- Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.—For the second year are virtually no additional costs incurred. pany in Bedford, Mass. is the prime contractor for the in a row, the Alabama National Guard, 1st Battalion The PATRIOT air and missile defense equipment PATRIOT system. 203d Air Defense Artillery (PATRIOT) and the U.S. used in today’s firing convoyed from Huntsville to “This is a real example of a win-win operation,” Army Lower Tier Project Office, Program Executive Eglin Air Force Base last week with 327 soldiers of said Thomas McDonagh, vice president and deputy Office for Air and Missile Defense, performed three the 1-203d ADA. Approximately 250 family members manager of the Air/Missile Defense Systems for successful live PATRIOT missile firings at Eglin Air also made the trip and were allowed to view the test Raytheon. “It provides both the training for our Force Base, Fla. The battalion is headquartered in Ath- from bleachers set up in a secure site at Eglin. National Guard troops, who are playing an ever in- ens, Ala. and has units in Huntsville, Scottsboro, “I don’t think you can find a more capable creasing role in our defense interests, and a real test Bridgeport, and Hartselle. PATRIOT battalion anywhere in the world,” said scenario to verify the integrity of our aging missile Three PATRIOT missiles were fired Sept. 18 as Brig. Gen. John Urias, Program Executive Officer, stocks. Congratulations to the 1-203d: Great shoot- part of this air and missile defense test. The first Air and Missile Defense. “These soldiers are great ing—3 for 3,” he said. missile fired, a PAC-2 (an upgraded version of the professionals, dedicated and committed to serving “This successful firing gives our troops the confi- standard PATRIOT), successfully intercepted an this great nation. I am proud to serve with them, dence to know they will perform well in the field, if MQM-107 turbojet aerial target. The second and third and watch them demonstrate their proficiency with called upon. Our soldiers know what to do, and when missiles fired were standard PATRIOT missiles, which one of the Army’s most important weapon sys- to do it, and they recognize that the system will enable successfully intercepted sub-scale towed targets. The tems. Entrusting this equipment to an Army Na- them to provide the type of protection to themselves tests provided the Army with valuable field surveil- tional Guard battalion is further evidence of our and other troops that has never existed on a battle- lance data and allowed the Guard soldiers to gain valu- commitment to a single Total Army Team—a seam- field before,” Sheffer said. able field experience training with a live missile. less fighting force,” said Urias. “I am more than pleased with the experience of The PATRIOT program is executed by the U.S. The U.S. Army Lower Tier Project Office, Program these soldiers and expertise they have demonstrated,” Army Program Executive Officer, Air and Missile Executive Office for Air and Missile Defense, contrib- said Lt. Col. Gary Sheffer, battalion commander. “To Defense and the U.S. Army Lower Tier Project Of- uted to this article. take a state of the art system and have back-to-back successful firings two years in a row is a testament to the high quality of these troops, and the excellent lead- ership and training the Alabama Army National Guard has provided to them. This outstanding accomplish- ment is especially critical right now because this bat- talion is scheduled to deploy to OPERATION SOUTHERN WATCH in the near future, where their performance could be the determining factor in life or death situa- tions, for themselves or other troops,” he said. The Army has asked the Alabama Army National Guard to provide the first full National Guard bat- tery to SOUTHERN WATCH in Southwest Asia, with the first unit scheduled to deploy in 2001, according to Sheffer. The battalion is currently the only deployable PATRIOT unit in the National Guard—and will pro- vide air and missile defense to Central Command while in Southwest Asia. Every year the Army is required to fire 18 PATRIOT missiles as part of the Field Surveillance Program. Until now, PATRIOT testing has been done almost exclusively at Fort Bliss, Texas, and White Sands Missile Range, N.M. However, the sys- tem must be able to perform anywhere in the world. “Eglin Air Force Base provides a different test en- vironment that builds confidence in the system to perform its role of protecting the troops and allies A Patriot missile soars toward its target as the 1st Battalion 203d Air Defense Artillery (PATRIOT), in time of conflict. This testing is an ongoing part Alabama National Guard, conducted their annual training this year. Two Washington youths attend Huntsville camp by Sgt. Maj. Lesley Hamilton “I couldn’t keep the stick steady and they wouldn’t “He made things fun for us.” Arlington, Va. let me land,” she said. Mackie likes to write and be creative. He also An aspiring actress, Jackson says the low plays basketball and plans to attend North Carolina When Brandon Mackie and Daverna Jackson crawling portion of survival training was the State University. arrived for a week of intensive training at the U.S. worst for her. “There were skunks and spider Mackie and Jackson were selected to receive the Space and Rocket Center Aviation Challenge Mach webs all over the place, and I knew they would scholarships from among the other 70 students in II camp they became know by their call signs “Pop- get on me,” she said. the Bridge Program at Martha’s Table. per” and “Metallica” respectively. Mackie says he particularly enjoyed the pro- “It was no question on these two,” said Jerry Mackie and Jackson, members of Martha’s gram and learned many things about himself that Love, the program coordinator at Martha’s Table. Table in Washington, D.C., received full scholarships he sometimes took for granted. Teamwork and Their grades, conduct and their roles in the com- to the one-week camp from the Army Space and leadership skills were present in all phases of their munity were just a few of the things that made them Missile Defense Association (ASMDA) located in training, he said. stand out, he said. Huntsville, Ala. “Our group did details together and when The ASMDA has provided two scholarships The eighth grade honor students were exposed somebody messed up, we were all (involved) in annually to Martha’s Table participants for the past to some of the same training and survival techniques the fix,” said Mackie. six years. Martha’s Table provides needy children that real fighter pilots receive. Speaking on leadership, he said his instruc- and teens with nutrious meals and supervised learn- From wake up at 6:30 a.m. to lights out at 10 tor, Lee South (call sign Chule), made the train- ing and literacy activities in a safe environment, 365 p.m. their days were filled with flight simulator ing exciting. days a year. It also operates a mobile soup kitchen training, water survival training, mission briefs, and “Chule explained things so we could under- feeding nearly 1,200 homeless people daily. many other challenges. stand; and, he found the way out of the woods “We operate totally on donations from all “My plane kept running out of fuel,” Jack- with his compass,” said Mackie, recounting his over the city and even the country,” said spokes- son said of her simulated take-offs and landings. experiences during the land navigation course. man John Wiebenson. 6 The Eagle

Shared experiences, cohesion sought Functional Area 40 continues growth by Jonathan Pierce the military in space, the importance of supporting “For instance,” Collins explains, “just now, we’re Huntsville, Ala. terrestrial operations from space, and they want to assigning majors to XVIII Airborne Corps and be a part of that future,” he said. Eighth United States Army. [They are] fine young Space officers work in a new dimension of the At Command and General Staff College officers, fully credible as FA 40s. Each is the only military but their mission isn’t much different from (CGSC) any student can take the space operations Army space officer in his organization – a some- that of other Army officers, according to the chief elective course and receive an additional skill iden- what lonely position as he tries to figure out how of Functional Area 40, Space Operations. tifier. For officers designated to FA 40, the elective he meets his customer needs. He’s going to have Col. Glenn C. Collins Jr., director of the Force is their first step in professional development. Af- concerns about how to do things, how to solve Development and Integration Center, U.S. Army ter CGSC, FA 40 officers attend an additional five- problems,” he said. Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC), week course split between Fort Leavenworth, Kan., One of the resources those officers have is runs Functional Area 40 (FA 40) for its proponent and Colorado Springs, Colo. other space officers. Each of these officers, accord- Lt. Gen. John Costello, the SMDC commanding After training, space officers are assigned to ing to Collins, “ is going to solve problems that general. Recently, he spoke with The Eagle editor corps and divisions and to various positions in the rest of us would want to know about. So we concerning FA 40 officers. SMDC, Department of the Army and the Joint have to share these experiences.” “Many of our missions are just the same as arena. Sharing these problems and experiences is when I was an artilleryman,” said Collins. “We would Collins is concerned, however, that FA 40 of- something that he believes the command must task-organize artillery forces to support the maneu- ficers may feel a void in their professional lives as a facilitate if FA 40 officers are to incorporate les- ver guys, now we task-organize space officers to result of leaving their basic branches. “These offic- sons learned from normal staff work, to exercises support maneuver guys,” he said. ers will not work in their basic branch again,” he and operational deployments. Collins is looking into Space officers apply space assets to maximize said. “I worry about those young majors and their ways that might be done. Among these may be the warfighter communications, command and control, families as they come out of CGSC. The commu- development of a Space Operations journal or position navigation, mapping, weather forecasting, nity they were a part of, whether it’s military intelli- magazine in which problems, experiences and so- intelligence and information operations, and the- gence, air defense, or field artillery [or any other lutions can be discussed. The use of such a journal ater and national missile defense. “Other than the branch], is likely to be a community they were very is a time-proven method of developing doctrine in fact that the spacecraft reside way up there in space, proud to be a part of. Now [it] falls away and they branches such as armor, infantry, and field artillery, the principles of conducting military operations will have to develop new friends and interests, and Collins said. Journals are an excellent tool for in- apply quite well,” Collins said. new sources of knowledge and education. creasing knowledge and developing cohesion within In its second year, FA 40 is doing well and expe- “Our goal is to make sure those officers don’t branches and it should have that same affect with riencing rapid growth. From its initial group of 23 feel that there is a void in their military lives be- FA 40, he said. designated officers, the functional area now has at cause they have made their choice to be a space Knowledge, camaraderie, and esprit de corps least 60 designated officers with a total requirement officer. Our goal is to fill that void with knowl- are essential to filling the void in the professional for 127. Competition for FA 40 is intense. When edge, camaraderie, jobs, and esprit de corps com- lives of officers designated to FA 40. “We have to captains select their functional areas, they can choose mensurate to the branches that they are no longer create a community for space officers that is as to stay in their basic branch or they can opt to enter a part of,” said Collins. equivalent as we can make it to the one they left a functional area such as FA 40. The Army matches One of the ways of developing both the from their basic branch,” said Collins. We want to individual choices to actual Army requirements and knowledge and camaraderie of officers within a fill that void so, “ they won’t ever regret that they designates each individual’s functional area. functional area is to share the experiences that were once an artilleryman, and are no more, or once “We have a 400 percent application rate—of- officers have in their various assignments. Collins an armor officer, and now no more,” he said. We ficers who want to be space officers versus how uses the example of two new space officers be- want them to say, “Yes, I was once armor, and I many we can actually accept,” said Collins. “There’s ing assigned to Fort Bragg, N.C., and to Seoul, enjoyed that, but now I’m a space officer, and I a great many young officers who see the future of Republic of Korea. enjoy that also.” THEL test tracks, hits multiple rockets White Sands Missile Range, N.M.—The Tactical High Energy THEL ACTD timelines Final Radar Preliminary Laser (THEL) demonstrator suc- developed to respond Classification Classification cessfully tracked and destroyed a to a salvo of artillery rockets salvo of two Katyusha rockets on Launch August 28 and again on Sept. 22. The Detect tests were the first time the THEL system shot down multiple rockets in the air at the same time. The tests were a follow-on to the successful single rocket shootdown of June 6. The THEL, a joint Advanced

Concept Technology Demonstra- Target Kill, Optical Track, tion (ACTD) program between the Slew to Next Target Visua l Ve rifica tion United States and Israel, is designed to negate the threat posed by Beam on Target Katyusha rockets to populated ar- Defended Zone eas in northern Israel. THEL In July 1996, the U.S. Depart- Fire Unit ment of Defense (DOD) and the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) signed a memorandum of agree- THEL Radar Unit ment which spelled out the devel- opment and functional testing of a THEL demonstrator. The THEL This graphic depicts how the various components of the demonstration THEL system work. consists of subsystems that include a laser, a pointer-tracker, a com- control radar. TRW, Inc., is the sile Defense Command is the DOD After development, testing and mand, control, communications and prime contractor. executive agent for the joint THEL/ evaluation, the demonstrator will be intelligence (C3I) center, and a fire The U.S. Army Space and Mis- ACTD program. available for shipment to Israel. September/October 2000 7 Space officers graduate from first course by Don Montoya Colorado Springs, Colo.

The U.S. Army Space Command (ARSPACE) recently achieved a milestone when it graduated the first class of a new space operations officer course for the Army’s new Functional Area 40. The first Interim Space Operations Officer Course (ISOOC) held from June 26 through July 14 in Colorado Springs, Colo., was composed of Graduates pose with the creators of the first Functional Area 40 Interim Space Operations 11 military officers and one GS-12 civilian. Officer Course: (Front row, left to right) Maj. Dave Wilson, Maj. Scott Cuthbertson, Maj. Floyd The course was developed and conducted Light, Maj. Joseph Bolton, Capt. Victoria Miralda, and Candice Simon. (Back row) Andy Zagars, by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Maj. Bryan Boyce, Maj. Chris Baker, Lt. Col. Brad Baehr, Capt. Joel Humphreys, Maj. Dawn Command (SMDC) Battle Lab. Eisert, Willie Breazell, Maj. Joe Maier and Keri Clark. “The three-week course was laid out with the first two weeks being hands-on training cussions with Lt. Gen. John Costello, the “We try to give them as many skills and here in Colorado Springs,” said Lt. Col. Brad SMDC commanding general. [contacts] to call ... so they don’t feel they are Baehr, chief of the Concepts and Initiatives “He asked if the Battle Lab would be able to on their own. And that’s probably the thing that Division, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense accomplish this mission of setting up an interim, makes me feel the best. Everyone left here feel- Command Battle Lab, who was the course di- tactically oriented course,” said Baehr. In six ing more confident compared to when they rector and designer. months the Battle Lab put it all together. came in,” said Baehr. “Students were exposed to various aspects “We worked very closely with the SMDC Some of the new Space Operations Offic- of military space operations including threat Force Development and Integration Center ers have been assigned to tactical units to in- capabilities, in addition to experiencing hands- (FDIC) in Arlington, Va., who are developing clude XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, N.C., on training on space analysis tools and specific the actual qualification course. We worked with and Eighth United States Army, Yongsan, space equipment,” he said. ARSPACE, the Air Force and about 20 differ- Seoul, Republic of Korea. “We already have one During the third week of the course the stu- ent agencies to put this together,” he said. FA 40 assigned to I Corps at Fort Lewis, dents went to Washington D.C., and visited vari- More than half of the nearly 30 instruc- Wash.,” said Baehr. ous national organizations that deal with space, tors were subject matter experts from outside The other students are going to staff assign- such as the National Reconnaissance Office, the the Army. Whether it was orbital mechanics or ments throughout the Army. National Security Agency, National Imagery and imagery the right instructors were brought in. A follow-up to the initial critique is slated Mapping Agency, and the Army Space Program In addition, various people came to observe for three- to six-months out. All the students will Office. They were introduced to what those or- the class in progress. send a critique from the field so Baehr and com- ganizations do and how they as space operations The benefit of all this, Baehr stated, was that pany can evaluate if what was taught was valid. officers would affect the Army’s use of space. everything done for the course has been turned “Maybe there is instruction we did here that Although similar courses are offered both over to FDIC to use as a baseline to help them they haven’t used so we won’t recommend that through an inter-service education program develop the formal course due out by next June. be included in the long course,” said Baehr. and at the Command and General Staff Col- “Everything that the students learned about Baehr worked with a team composed of con- lege, there wasn’t one that fit the space opera- Space Operations is on five compact discs,” said tractor consultants and others to create the interim tions officer requirements, Baehr said. Baehr. “They have this to use with their laptop com- course. Some of those individuals included Chuck According to Baehr, officers currently en- puters and help them do their job. That’s unique! Purkiss and Willie Breazell, consultants with TASC/ tering FA 40 have limited opportunities for for- There are only 12 sets and each student has one.” Litton; Andy Zagars, consultant with STA; T.I. malized Space training until the formal quali- The other great value of the class, Baehr Weintraub, a consultant with Lockheed Martin Corp.; fication course is begun next summer. pointed out, is that this first group of Space Op- Lt. Col. Larry Fallen and Lt. Col. Jerry Cole from “So the question was how do we give these erations Officers got to meet and network with each FDIC; and Keri Clark, an administrative assistant at soldiers training to make them value-added to the other. The end result was the realization that once SMDC Battle Lab. commander once they arrive in a given unit,” he they walk out the door they are not on their own. “That team did all the work,” Baehr said. said. “We have provided them with mission skills “They sat down with me and we mapped out the The answer is this new interim course, the and the knowledge of how and whom to con- program of instruction and did all the develop- genesis of which occurred last year after dis- tact for continued support,” he said. ment and coordination to put it together.” SMDC participates in procurement preference program

The federal government purchases billions of and the Department of the Army and then be- The SMDC has had a great year so far. We dollars in goods and services each year that range tween the Army and its major commands such as have exceeded all our goals except one and are mak- from paperclips to complex space vehicles. It is the the Army Space and Missile Defense Command ing progress toward it. Mr. Mark Lumer’s HUB policy of the United States, expressed in the Small (SMDC). The goal percentages are applied to to- Zone Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) initiative Business Act (P.L. 85-536), that all small businesses tal contract dollar obligations. Our command’s has generated considerable interest around the coun- have the maximum practicable opportunity to par- goals for 2000 are: try, as well as within the HUBZone small business ticipate in providing goods and services to the fed- community. This initiative placed BOAs with 48 eral government. • 18% - total small business firms in 17 states. Contact Ms. Nicole Baugh at The Small Business Administration (SBA) is (256) 955-4985 for BOA information. responsible for ensuring that the statutory gov- • 11.5% - small business set-aside For information regarding any aspect of the ernment-wide goals are met. To ensure that small federal small business program as it affects businesses get their fair share, the SBA negotiates • 5% - small disadvantaged businesses SMDC, contact either Mr. John Ralls or Ms. annual procurement preference goals with each Christine Smith at (256) 955-3412. They can Federal agency and reviews each agency’s yearly • 5% - women-owned small businesses also be reached by fax at (256) 955-2654 and by results. These results are then reported to Con- e-mail at [email protected] and gress and to the President. • 1% - HUB Zone small businesses [email protected]. The annual procurement preference goals ne- The command website contains additional small gotiated between the SBA and the Department of • 5% - historically black colleges and business information and business opportunities at Defense are further negotiated between the DOD universities and minority institutions. (http://www.smdc.army.mil). 8 The Eagle

Army officer to take third flight ARSPACE teams with NASA again by Don Montoya Astronaut Detachment located at NASA’s Truss and a third mating adapter to the Inter- Colorado Springs, Colo. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. This national Space Station. detachment supports NASA’s Space Shuttle and STS-92 will begin the “heart” of station U.S. Army Space Command is lending a International Space Station Programs. construction in orbit, attaching these two ma- helping hand to NASA during the continuing A veteran of two space flights, he has logged jor components. construction of the International Space Station 354 orbits of the Earth and traveled 9.2 million The new truss houses four gyroscope devices in October. This help comes in the form of Col. miles in 22 days, 4 hours, 44 minutes and 45 that will become the station’s primary “sense of William McArthur, an astronaut in the seconds. balance,” and Ku-Band communications equip- ARSPACE program, one of five mission spe- During this historic 11-day mission on STS- ment. The truss contains parts of both systems, cialists out of a crew of seven flying aboard STS- 92 he joins Brian Duffy, commander; Pamela but the full systems will not become active until 92 on the Space Shuttle Discovery. (The launch Melroy, pilot; Koichi Wakata (Japan/NASDA), the STS-102 mission. of Discovery, set for the evening of Oct. 5, was mission specialist; Leroy Chiao, mission special- McArthur and crew will attach the truss and delayed until after publication deadline.) ist; Peter Wisoff, mission specialist; and Michael mating adapter using the robotic arm, and then McArthur is currently one of six mission Lopez-Alegria, mission specialist. The crew will the astronauts will perform four space walks to specialist astronauts from the ARSPACE Army deliver an exterior framework called the Z-1 hook up electrical lines, computer connections and other finish work. As an added bonus to the mission, the crew of STS-92 will also have the distinct honor of being on board the 100th shuttle flight. McArthur was assigned to NASA at the Johnson Space Center in August 1987 as a Space Shuttle vehicle integration test engineer. His du- ties involved engineering liaison for launch and landing operations of the Space Shuttle. He was actively involved in the integrated test of the flight control system for each orbiter for its return to flight and was a member of the Emer- gency Escape and Rescue Working Group. Selected by NASA in January 1990, McArthur became an astronaut in July 1991. Since then, McArthur has held various assign- ments within the Astronaut Office including: working issues relating to the solid rocket booster, redesigned solid rocket motor, and the advanced solid rocket motor. He served as Chief of the Astronaut Of- fice Flight Support Branch, supervising astro- naut support of the Mission Control Center, prelaunch Space Shuttle processing, and launch and landing operations. He served as a mission specialist on STS-58 on the seven-person life science research mis- sion aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in Oc- tober 1993. McArthur served as a mission spe- cialist on STS-74, which involved NASA’s sec- Photo courtesy of NASA ond Space Shuttle mission to rendezvous and Astronauts Col. William S. McArthur, Jr. (left) and Koichi Wakata train in the Virtual Reality dock with the Russian Space Station Mir in Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center’s Systems Integration Facility. November 1995. Individual Mobilization Augmentees earn retirement points by Steven K. Gover [enough] retirement points for a good retirement or to learn more about the 184th, individuals Huntsville, Ala. year,” he said. can call Sgt. 1st Class Barnes at (256) 876-3666 The 184th, located in building 3459, meets or go to the detachment website at: Members of the Individual Ready Reserve, every Tuesday evening from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. www.imad.redstone.army.mil. Reserve Component troop program units, and Its activities are similar to other IMA units. soldiers separating from active duty also have The detachment has a dynamic training another means by which they can earn points schedule that covers topics such as: military his- Officer promotions to toward retirement. Individual Mobilization tory, leadership, military book reviews, and com- Augmentees (IMA) have a unique way of earn- munity service. “Recently,” Adams said, “we had major announced ing retirement points. a Russian veteran of the Battle of Stalingrad Congratulations are in order for the following of- IMAs are different because they drill for re- [speak]. We had a wonderful time reliving his ficers for their selection for promotion to Major: tirement points only, not for pay, according to experiences,” he said. Lt. Col. George Adams, detachment commander IMAs who want to serve active duty tours Jerome J. Driscoll ARSPACE for the 184th IMA. The unit provides an excel- have no problems, according to Adams. The John M. Eggert USAKA lent opportunity for those whose family life or unit is a clearinghouse for active duty tours William M. McLagan ARSPACE job prevents them from participating in a troop in search of IMAs to fill them. “There are Edward J. Oneill IV SMDC HQ program unit. “You don’t have to devote one always tours for Army special projects, di- James D. Patterson ARSPACE weekend a month or two weeks in the summer,” saster relief and overseas tours for qualified Robert J. Phillips FDIC said Adams. “The driving factor is to get retire- soldiers,” said Adams. Kelly C. Spillane FDIC ment points, and there’s no problem getting To find out more about the IMA program, Terry Torraca ARSPACE September/October 2000 9

ARSPACE building costs $24.5 million Ceremony marks start of construction USSPACECOM PAO ments of U. S. Space Command located here. It the NORAD and U.S. Space Command missions. will also unify all the currently separate ARSPACE “The two commands work hand in glove on PETERSON AFB, Colo. - The U.S. and Ca- and Army Space and Missile Defense Command several key areas, therefore it’s good to have the nadian North American Aerospace Defense Com- elements in Colorado Springs. The new buildings staffs working together in one spot,” said Lt. Gen. mand, U.S. Space Command, and U.S. Army Space will also house a larger Naval Space Command Macdonald. Command broke ground July 6 for the new planning element, although its headquarters will Perhaps more importantly, the new buildings Peterson Air Force Base space complex. The cer- remain in Dahlgren, Va. symbolize the enduring 42-year partnership that emony underscored the importance of space as The new ARSPACE headquarters building will NORAD has become for the common defense of an integral part of our nation’s defense, joint house approximately 315 military and civilian per- North America. In fact, the NORAD agreement was service operations, and the continued resolve of sonnel and contain slightly more than 100,000 extended last month for another five years by the two nations to protect their homelands. square feet. The facility will be used for headquar- governments of Canada and the United States. Pitching the first shovels of dirt were Rep. ters functions as well as operational missions con- Macdonald stressed the importance of the Joel Hefley, R-Colo., whose district includes ducted by ARSPACE and other elements of the bi-national resolve saying, “Here in North Peterson AFB; Canadian Forces Lt. Gen. George Army Space and Missile Defense Command in the America it has always been clearly understood that Macdonald, deputy commander in chief, Colorado Springs area. the defense of our two homelands could be ac- NORAD; Vice Adm. Herbert A. Browne, deputy Lt. Gen. Costello expressed excitement about complished far better through cooperation be- commander in chief, USSPACECOM; Lt. Gen. moving onto Peterson AFB saying it would allow tween two great friends and allies.” John Costello, commander, U.S. Army Space ARSPACE to be a part of the team. “It is a sym- The new buildings also include space for the Command (ARSPACE) and Army Space and Mis- bol of jointness and of working together as a joint new U.S. Space Command computer network de- sile Defense Command; Brig. Gen. Carl Strock, team doing the nation’s business,” he said. fense and attack missions. “Really with this, we commander, Northwest Division, U.S. Army According to Vice Adm. Browne, the impor- are at the cutting edge of what defense is in a mod- Corps of Engineers; and Mr. David White of the tance of this close and immediate coordination ern age,” said Hefley. construction firm of Swinerton and Walberg. cannot be understated, especially in an era of high The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded In his opening remarks, Congressman Hefley tempo military operations. a contract of $55.7 million to the Arvada, Colo- set the day’s tone when he emphasized the im- “Today it takes almost three days in terms of rado-based construction firm of Swinerton and portance of the construction project and the travel time to have a two-hour meeting in Colo- Walberg on March 29. The project includes $31.2 significance of NORAD and space to our nation’s rado Springs with the commander in chief. Now million for the NORAD and USSPACECOM defense. “As we look to defense of the future, they will be able to gather together relatively quickly headquarters and $24.5 million for the ARSPACE we don’t want facilities that are based in the past. in the headquarters and work very important is- headquarters. The buildings will be located next We want facilities that match the mission that we sues,” he said. to the Air Force Space Command headquarters. have in the future,” he said. The new combined headquarters building for Consolidating operations on Peterson AFB will The two new buildings, and the current Air NORAD and U.S. Space Command will be ap- save the miltary $2 million annually in rent. Force Space Command headquarters, will be cen- proximately 133,000 square feet. The current head- Swinerton and Walberg will team with Merrick tralized in a campus-like area allowing for easy ac- quarters building holds 675 people, though the for engineering and RNL Design for architectural cess among the buildings. Locating the new building was only designed to accommodate 450 work. Both firms are from Denver. Construction is ARSPACE building on Peterson AFB will improve people. The new headquarters will accommodate expected to be completed by the fall of 2002. coordination and communications with other ele- more than 800 staff members who will support Groundbreaking starts European construction by Don Montoya organizations. This necessitated plans for the two “I hope that’s why we’re breaking ground,” said Colorado Springs, Colo. buildings to be redone many times before an agree- DISA-Europe director Col. Stephen Klinefelter. ment was reached. Col. John Klemencic, commander of Army A July 10 groundbreaking ceremony in “It has been nine months of discussing, talk- Space Forces, traveled from Colorado Springs, Colo., Stuttgart, Germany, advanced a project to combine ing and planning a difficult but successful project,” to witness the ceremony. Army Space Command-Europe (ARSPACE-Eu- said Christoph Melchers, head of the German “The Army is getting a tremendous bang for rope) and the Defense Information Systems Housing Authority. “Now is the time for doing, its buck in this facility,” said Klemencic. “All of the Agency- Europe (DISA-Europe) into a Communi- and if you want to move in near February 2001, we other ARSPACE offices are looking to this one cations one stop shop that will occupy two build- can’t discuss plans anymore.” because it is so successful.” ings being constructed adjacent to DISA-Europe’s main building on Patch Barracks. The two buildings will look like one from the outside, but one building will house ARSPACE-Eu- rope and the other will be used by DISA-Europe. “These buildings will be what they call the one- stop shop for communications for 24 hours a day, seven days a week support to the warfighter, ” said William Galvan, director of the ARSPACE Regional SATCOM Support Center Europe. The new project’s objective is to physically combine two previously separate entities. ARSPACE currently works in an area separated from DISA- Europe to provide satellite communication support. DISA-Europe’s mission is to provide terrestrial communication support. “Neither of those alone could serve the warfighter without the support of the other,” Galvan said. Galvan introduced many of the project leaders in the short ceremony, and each got a chance to don red hard hats and yellow gardening gloves to ColonelStephen Klinefelter (left), commander, Defense Information Systems Agency-Europe; dig the first soil for the foundation. Col. John Klemencic, commander, Army Space Forces; and Christoph Melchers, head of the The project planning started nine months ago, German Housing Authority, perform the traditional groundbreaking to begin construction on with the price tag going beyond the budget of both the new ARSPACE and DISA-Europe facility. 10 The Eagle Exercise improves NMD development by Tom Mahr Joint National Test Facility of the Ballistic Missile able it is for operators and developers to discuss Defense Organization on August 16. Organized and the rules of the game, especially with a mission to SCHRIEVER AFB, CO – “Today’s exer- executed by the Army Space Command, BPEx 00- defend North America against intentional and ac- cise had two purposes,” explained Maj. Tom 03 was the eighth in a series of exerciess sponsored cidental missile attacks. Anderson, of the U.S. Army Space Command by USSPACECOM and hosted by the Joint National “As an NMD warfighter, it is especially im- plans division. “Our first goal was to examine Test Facility to fine-tune the battle management/ portant to understand the big picture so I can the importance and impact of the rules of en- command, control and communications (BM/C3) best apply my skills in the fire direction center,” gagement on the North American Aerospace De- system being developed for the national missile said Capt. Sean Johnson of the North Dakota fense Command (NORAD) and U.S. Space Com- defense system. Army National Guard. “BPEx 00-03 gave me an mand (USSPACECOM) ability to carry out their The exercise brought together a number of excellent opportunity to better understand the assigned missions of defending North America NMD operators including USSPACECOM, rules of engagement and to refine my tactical against a variety of ballistic missile threats. Our NORAD, Air Force Space Command, Army Space skills on the BM/C3 system.” second goal was to give those of us in the opera- Command and the Army National Guard with sev- Johnson, along with Maj. Kevin Iverson and tional community a chance to practice critical op- eral DOD and contractor members of the devel- SSgt. Reed Unterseher, represented the North Da- erational decisionmaking using the current ver- oper team for discussions, table top exercises and kota Army Guard, while Sgt. 1st Class Bill Amidon sion of the National Missile Defense (NMD) exercises using the prototype NMD battle manage- represented the Alaskan Army National Guard. battle management software.” ment/command and control software. North Dakota and Alaska are the two states that More than two dozen people participated in Participants were extremely positive about the are most likely to operate the ground-based por- Battle Planning Exercise (BPEx) 00-03 held at the results of the exercise. Many discovered how valu- tion of an NMD system, if a decision is made to deploy one. The Joint National Test Facility is the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization’s premier modeling, simulation and test center. The facility is focused on interservice, interoperability and integration as- pects of the nation’s national and theater missile defense programs. “The BPExs are conducted here in the Joint National Test Facility to enable us to take advan- tage of the BM/C3 Element Laboratory’s opera- tional software and analytical tools,” explained Maj. Stuart Strong, program manager for the BM/ C3 Element Support Center and BM/C3 Element Laboratory. Lt. Col. Stephen Sovaiko, assigned to NORAD/USSPACECOM’s Cheyenne Mountain Operation Center, summed up his experience: “This exercise was important because it focused our attention on ways the national command au- thorities might use a national missile defense system to counteract a wide range of possible threats to North America. The exercise also re- vealed a lot of policy work which remains to be done on engagement doctrine.” Canadian Forces Maj. Gen. David Bartram, NORAD’s director of operations and the exercise commander-in-chief, agreed with and under- scored Sovaiko’s observations. “Recommendations will (DOD photo by Carol Floyd) flow from the exercise to the NORAD and Practice makes perfect USSPACECOM staffs which will ultimately be re- SCHRIEVER AFB, CO – Participants in Battle Planning Exercise 00-03 hone their skills on flected in ballistic missile defense concepts of prototype national missile defense battle management/command and control software. Pictured operations and/or requests for changes or clarifi- from left to right are: Army Maj. Tom Anderson, U.S, Army Space Command; and Army Lt. Col. cations to the rules of engagement for ballistic Sherry Carpenter, Army Col. Steven Bowman and Army Maj. Patrick Frakes, all of the NORAD/ missile defense.” USSPACECOM Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center.

New SMDC major subordinate element to identify industry technologies for DOD

SMDC PAO on and leverage ongoing and projected technol- the newly created Single Integrated Air Picture ogy efforts in missile defense and space. Systems Engineer Organization (at the PEO The Army Space and Missile Defense Com- OTII will serve as a critical outreach center AMD) The OTII director is responsible to coor- mand (SMDC) recently established a new major to other Army agencies, other DOD organiza- dinate the Army’s technical interoperability so- subordinate element (MSE), the Office of Tech- tions such as the Defense Advanced Research lutions, coordinate emerging and changing the- nical Integration and Interoperability (OTII). Bill Projects Agency (DARPA), other national agen- ater air and missile defense requirements and Reeves, head of SMDC’s Weapons Directorate, cies such as the National Reconnaissance Office make key recommendations on priorities and will lead this effort along with other highly quali- (NRO) and the National Imagery and Mapping resource allocations. fied people from SMDC and the Program Ex- Agency (NIMA), and industry. The director of In both capacities, the OTII director will ecutive Office for Air and Missile Defense (PEO OTII is responsible for providing the command- report directly to the SMDC commanding gen- AMD). ing general a prioritized technical road map by eral and the deputy commanding general for ac- The broad charter of this office is to per- which the command can execute key aspects of quisition. The OTII is a special MSE, similar to form the critical function of identifying technol- its strategic plan. that of the TRADOC Systems Manager Office, ogy efforts with the Department of Defense Additionally, the OTII will act as the support and has broad coordinating and integrating re- (DOD) and industry. The office will also focus center and subject matter expert in support of sponsibilities across the command. September/October 2000 11 AUSA ’00 Annual Meeting U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command in ‘tune’ with Army’s Transformation messages

hen the 2000 Associa- Space & Missile Defense Space Control Other areas of interest... tion of the United States Battle Lab The Army Space Program Of- Army commences its An- The Space and Missile Defense The U.S. Army SMDC is a nualW Meeting and Exposition in strong advocate of the United fice is featuring one of the latest Battle Lab leads off the U.S. Army Washington, D.C., the U.S. Army States having space control capa- developments in the Tactical Ex- SMDC exhibit with many commer- ploitation of National Capabili- Space and Missile Defense Com- cial, off-the-shelf products that can bilities in a time of a national mand (SMDC) will offer an op- emergency. Just as the United ties, the Grenadier Brat. transform today’s soldier into In the area of Cruise Missile portunity to the Army leadership, tomorrow’s Objective Force. Join States can use space to provide soldiers, and the public to view critical support to warfighters Defense, the Joint Land Attack our soldiers as they take you along Cruise Missile Defense Elevated some of the latest developments on a hypothetical deployment to around the world, our adversaries in space and missile defense tech- can also use space assets to moni- Netted Sensor System (JLENS), geographical areas that would pro- features an exhibit with computer nology being devised for the tect U.S. interests during a contin- tor, track and target U.S. troops. warfighter today. The United States must be able to simulation demos. gency. You’ll see how these space The Ballistic Missile Targets The Cotillion Foyer of the products can work throughout the prevent space assets from being Marriott Wardman Park Hotel will used as a tool against us. At the Joint Project Office has recently stages of pre-deployment planning, updated its exhibit and will have be filled with space and missile de- deployment, and initial operations same time, the Army must ensure fense demonstrations Oct. 16-18. that U.S. troops can have uninter- subject-matter experts addressing to help make the tough jobs our sol- the latest in target missile support SMDC will show many of the lat- diers face easier and safer. rupted access to space products est innovations to ensure soldiers and can operate freely within the to the joint community. The Tactical High Energy fight and win better and safer on the Army Space Support Teams regime of space. battlefields of the future. Laser (THEL) program is mov- The Army Space Support Teams Kwajalein Missile Range ing ahead with the government of U.S. Army Space and Missile bring the latest technologies to the Israel and TRW, Inc., in a joint Defense Command (SMDC) warfighters in the field. The Command’s Kwajalein Mis- effort to finalize the laser dem- These teams, fielded by the Army sile Range in the Central Pacific is onstrator and possibly move on The U.S. Army SMDC, one of the Space Command, will be led by involved in continuous surveillance to the development of a more Army’s newest major commands, trained Space Operations Officers of space assets helping U.S. Space mobile version. best represents the theme of this from the FA 40 Army Functional Command and NASA identify, track, Please stop by and visit our year’s AUSA exhibit: “Transform- Area and will take advantage of the and monitor the myriad space objects exhibit and find out about our ing the Army for the 21st Century.” many situational awareness and circling the earth today—military or many other current space and SMDC is at the forefront of work- communication tools that space af- commercial, friendly or foe. They missile defense projects and de- ing to provide digital technologies fords. Stop by and take time to even keep track of the space “junk” velopments. We are a proud team to the Army’s corps-level and below speak with any of our four soldiers that resides in permanent orbit around player in the Army’s Transforma- commands—where the soldiers who will be standing by at our Army the earth as a result of man’s 40 years tion! need it most. Space Command exhibit. of space exploration. 12 The Eagle Ensuring our Army evolves into a ... Responsive, Deployable, Agile, Versa

Broadcast Request Imagery Technology Experiment SMDC’s exhibit includes (BRITE)

initiatives employed during The Broadcast Request Imagery Technology Experiment (BRITE) enables Army units to access and exploit existing intelligence imagery the recent Advanced collected by National Technical Means (NTM). The near-real-time ex- ploitation of this imagery enhances its tactical value. BRITE provides Warfighting Experiment and “disadvantaged” units a capability to gain access to NTM imagery for tactical purposes. are planned for future Army BRITE imagery enhances a commander’s ability to select the most favorable course of action before the fight, maintain situational aware- Warfighting Experiments... ness during the fight and to conduct battle damage assessment (BDA) after the fight. The exploitation of BRITE imagery can reduce casual- ties and increase the probability of mission success.

Precision Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Targeting System and the Embedded National Tactical Receiver (PSTS/ENTR)

The PSTS/ENTR technology provides a means to exploit correlated Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) acquired from national and corps-level systems while providing accurate, timely targeting data to the fire sup- port assets, with a significant space and weight savings over conven- tional Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) Satellite Communications (SATCOM) radios. It also provides the commander with a sensor-to-shooter capability.

Space Operations Officer - Functional Area 40 (SOO-FA40)

The Space Operations Officer (SOO) provides the tactical commander analysis of space mission requirements including the synchronization and coordination of all available space assets to support successful mis- sion accomplishment. The SOO provides the tactical commander with an accurate assess- ment of friendly, enemy, and third party space capabilities, dispositions, and intentions in support of combat operations.

Spectral Imagery Products

Imagery products are required by the tactical commander for intelli- gence preparation of the battlefield, target detection, battle damage as- sessment, and battlefield visualization in cluttered terrain. These prod- ucts provide improved perception of battlespace to operational and tac- tical users conducting world-wide military operations. Spectral systems sense objects across a broad spectrum, enabling au- tomated recognition of targets and terrain features. Results of spectral initiatives can defeat camouflage, enhance target detection, accelerate terrain analysis, detect obstacles, assess battle damage, and protect the force. September/October 2000 13 atile, Lethal, Survivable & Sustainable

Hardware Software Integration Center/NMD Users Lab (HSIC/NMD UL)

The HSIC is a Space and Missile Defense Battle Lab technology center, supporting the integration of several initiatives into the com- manders’ existing command and control system. The NMD UL is an Army operated activity supporting the joint NMD user community and evaluating proposed joint DTLOM solutions. The NMD UL provides an independent environment and capability for the operator, user, combat developer, and combat training devel- oper to train, exercise, and experiment.

Handheld Command and Control Wireless Communications (HC2WC)

HC2WC provides near-real-time two-way communications be- tween tactical users worldwide and the tactical operations center. Tactical commanders on the ground have the ability to track deployed combat soldiers as well as receive pertinent real-time information and intelligence from those soldiers that could prove essential to Deployable Weather Satellite Workstation mission success. (DWSW) This system provides the tactical commander on the ground the ability to track deployed soldiers, as well as receive pertinent real- The Deployable Weather Satellite Workstation (DWSW) receives time information that could prove to be the combat multiplier in the high-resolution imagery and other data directly from polar orbiting end. and geostationary weather satellites. Because these satellites collect data over a very large area, the DWSW can provide needed “GO/NO GO” weather-decision products for a battlespace several thousand miles away. ‘We must develop a vibrant DWSW provides commanders the timely and accurate weather imagery and data needed to plan and execute military operations. It capability for reach back also provides mission-focused digital weather and weather effects communications and products across the Army Battle Command Systems (ABCS). intelligence—to enable us to put a combat capable brigade Enroute Mission Planning and Rehearsal System (EMPRS) anywhere in the world in 96 hours, a division on the ground During deployment, EMPRS provides the deploying tactical com- mander and his staff with secure two-way data, voice, and imagery in 120 hours, and five divisions information between aircraft in flight, headquarters planning staff elements at home, advanced reconnaissance teams already in the ob- in 30 days...’ jective area, and other supporting agencies and forces. It enables the deploying tactical commander to make changes to Gen. Eric K. Shinseki plans while still enroute to the objective area, and allows him to coor- Chief of Staff dinate those changes with all subordinates and supporting forces. U.S. Army EMPRS seeks to eliminate the “information blackout” commanders now experience while enroute. 14 The Eagle PEO AMD Exhibit Features TMD “Hit to-Kill” Successes s we enter the new millennium, the and manufacturing development and pro- U.S. Army Program Executive Of- duction. Each test phase has different Afice for Air and Missile Defense (PEO objectives, and as milestones are AMD) is aggressively working to pro- achieved, the objectives increase in com- tect our warfighters by developing world- plexity. To this end, and in partnership class systems that are technologically su- with the Ballistic Missile Defense Orga- perior. Great strides are being made ev- nization (BMDO), PEO AMD has been ery day as we come closer to accomplish- tasked to integrate and field Army TAMD ing our mission of developing a theater systems that will enable our soldiers to air and missile defense capability that, defeat air and missile threats whenever when fully fielded, will provide a near- and wherever encountered. Listed be- leak-proof protection of our defended low are a few facts and highlights from areas and deployed forces from air and each of the project and product offices missile attack. that comprise PEO AMD. The systems being developed and PATRIOT: PATRIOT’s mission is tested by PEO AMD are key to our mis- to defend the “lower-tier” of the TAMD sion. By visiting our exhibit at AUSA’s architecture. This includes defending 2000 annual meeting, conference attend- troops and fixed assets from short- and ees and visitors can view our new, inte- medium-range ballistic missiles, cruise grated, multimedia video presentation to missiles, and other air-breathing threats receive an informative overview of each such as fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft. program managed by PEO AMD. The PATRIOT initially focused on air defense exhibit features live-flight test successes rather than missile defense, but the achieved in the PATRIOT Advanced changing battlefield and increased threat Capability 3 (PAC-3), Theater High Al- posed by tactical ballistic missiles titude Area Defense (THAAD), and Ar- spurred improvements and modifications row programs. In addition, an impres- needed to refocus on the TBM threat. sive, full-scale THAAD Kill Vehicle Today, the effort to improve PATRIOT’s model and a half-scale PAC-3 model will missile defense capabilities continues as be on display. New for this year’s con- the latest version, PAC-3, nears comple- ference is a dramatic 6- by 4-foot, back- tion. PAC-3 has achieved five success- lit, graphic panel that amplifies the Army ful intercepts, including three against Chief-of-Staff’s vision of “Transforming Hera ballistic missile targets. The PAC- the Army for the 21st Century.” Briga- 3 interceptor recently passed a critical dier General John Urias, the PEO for technical milestone, demonstrating for AMD, has implemented a “Plug & Fight” the first time the successful “hit-to-kill” concept that is intended to execute the destruction of an air-breathing drone air and missile defense portion of the configured as a cruise missile. Army plan. The graphic panel illustrates THAAD: The THAAD system pro- PEO AMD’s goal of developing and de- vides the “upper-tier” response for the ploying systems/system components that Army’s two-tier Theater Missile Defense are lighter, rapidly transportable, and concept. The higher altitude and theater- easily reconfigured—yet retain the re- wide protection furnished by THAAD quired lethality and survivability crite- combines with lower-tier systems to pro- rion of future battlefields. Our senior vide a near-leak-proof missile defense of staff will also be on hand to discuss the critical, high-value assets. THAAD pro- latest developments in our theater air and vides the most mature upper-tier system missile defense programs and answer any and will intercept enemy TBMs in both questions you may have. the high endo- and exoatmospheric re- The PEO AMD is responsible for gions. This capability will enable the materiel development and fielding of THAAD to destroy incoming TBMs at the joint effort also yields benefits in fur- States, Germany, and Italy, and its man- air and missile defense elements that longer ranges from defended assets, al- thering risk reduction of U.S. system de- agement organization charter was estab- comprise the Army’s Theater Air and low for multiple-shot opportunities, and velopment. Arrow has an engagement lished under NATO in 1996. Missile Defense (TAMD) segment. Lead minimize the likelihood of damage from footprint somewhere between the U.S. JTAGS: The Joint Tactical Ground by the PATRIOT Project Office, PEO weapons of mass destruction and falling PAC-3 and THAAD systems and func- Station (JTAGS) provides the theater AMD has compiled an impressive flight debris. Two successive THAAD inter- tions effectively in the upper reaches of commander-in-chief with a deployable, test performance record over the past 18 cepts of TBM targets were achieved be- the earth’s atmosphere. The Arrow inter- in-theater capability to receive, process, months. During this span, seven succes- tween June and August 1999. Based on ceptor uses a blast fragmentation war- and disseminate space-based infrared sive target engagement attempts (four these successes, THAAD has entered the head to eliminate incoming missiles, as sensor information on TBM launches and PATRIOT, two THAAD, one Arrow) Engineering, Manufacturing, and Devel- opposed to the kinetic energy, hit-to-kill other events. JTAGS is currently fielded have resulted in target intercepts. Be- opment (EMD) acquisition phase. Flight warheads employed in PAC-3 and overseas as well as to CONUS-based fore these elements ever see combat, tests using EMD hardware are scheduled THAAD. The first successful intercept contingency units. JTAGS is a key part however, vigorous component and sys- to take place in 2004. of a TBM target was achieved in of CINCSPACE’s Tactical Event System tem testing is performed to ensure that Arrow: The Arrow Weapon Sys- November 1999, and the first pair of and is operated by joint Army-Navy the user’s operational requirements are tem (AWS) mission is to support the Is- AWS batteries was deployed in March crews, providing continuous, all-weather met or exceeded. Weapon system and/ raeli Government in developing a TMD 2000. Continuing through 2001, the Ar- threat monitoring. or sensor test and evaluation programs system to defend Israel. The U.S. pro- row Deployability Project will be the Transforming the Army for the 21st begin early in a program’s life-cycle vides technical expertise to aid in AWS cornerstone for U.S. and Israeli ballistic Century—the theme of AUSA 2000—is model and continue through engineering risk reduction. Knowledge gained from missile defense cooperation. the challenge we face to meet a chang- MEADS: The Medium Extended ing world and an increasingly diverse, Air Defense System (MEADS) will de- lethal, and proliferating multiple-plat- fend maneuver forces and fixed assets form air and missile threat. PEO AMD from attack by short-range ballistic mis- embraces the responsibility of counter- siles, large-caliber rockets, cruise mis- ing this threat by developing, integrat- siles, and other air-breathing objects such ing, acquiring, and fielding TAMD sys- as aircraft or unmanned aerial vehicles. tems to meet the current and future needs MEADS’ role in the ballistic missile de- of the U.S. Armed Forces and its allies. fense architecture will be to bridge the We are dedicated to equipping our gap between low-altitude air defense sys- warfighters with the best state-of-the-art tems, like STINGER, and higher levels defense technology available, while con- of the missile defense structure covered tinuing to investigate emerging technolo- by PATRIOT and THAAD, while pro- gies that will make our platforms more viding continuous coverage for rapidly lethal, survivable, and transportable. advancing maneuver forces. MEADS With each milestone we reach, we come will be rapidly deployable, have greater closer to realizing our ultimate goal— firepower, and require less manpower achieving full integration into the Joint than its predecessors. MEADS is an in- TMD Family of Systems. The THAAD Kill Vehicle model will be on display. ternational venture between the United September/October 2000 15

SMDC Quality Awards net winners by Marco Morales Ms. Donna Burnette Huntsville, Ala. receives the Commander’s The U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll/ Quality Award on Kwajalein Missile Range (USAKA/ behalf of the U.S. Army Kwajalein KMR), the Ballistic Missile Targets Joint Atoll/Kwajalein Project Office (BMTJPO), and the U.S. Missile Range from Army Space and Missile Defense Battle Lt. Gen. John Lab (SMDBL) received Commander’s Costello, the SMDC Quality Awards July 21 for being the commanding “best in the command.” The award cer- general. The award emony, held in Washington, D.C., was was accompanied broadcast via a video teleconference by a check for (VTC) throughout the command. $75,000. The awards, presented by Lt. Gen. John Costello, commanding general of the U.S. Army Space and Missile De- fense Command (SMDC), are designed to further the goals of the Army Per- formance Improvement Criteria (APIC) at SMDC. The highest award, the Com- mander’s Quality Award, went to several external organizations served entire workforce in APIC by the end of satisfaction.” USAKA/KMR. Along with an en- as evaluators. summer.” One of the keys to their suc- In addition to being winners in the graved bronze trophy came a check for Feedback was provided to the or- cess was bringing the contractor com- SMDC competition, USAKA/KMR $75,000. The award was accepted by ganizations to improve their operations. munity on board with APIC during the and the Battle Lab’s packages will be Donna Burnett of the Kwajalein Sup- The APIC is based on the Malcolm initial stages. This culminated in Colo- forwarded to the Department of the port Directorate in Huntsville, repre- Baldrige National Quality Award Crite- nel McMillen, Mr. John Wallace, and the Army (DA) to compete against other senting Colonel Gary K. McMillen who ria-based framework to manage change, senior leaders from both contractor and Army organizations. If they are winners was present via VTC. The Chief of a tool for assessment, a means to pro- government organizations signing an at the DA level their packages will be Staff Award, earned by the BMTJPO, vide integration and a common language “APIC Pledge” last April. This pledge forwarded to the Office of Personnel was accepted by Col. James D. Cambron, for SMDC’s internal and external com- was a sign of commitment by both par- Management for competition in the project manager of the BMTJPO. munication. The assessments and com- ties to work together as a team in de- President’s Quality Award. Cambron’s organization received an en- petition will be performed every year. ploying APIC. General Costello addressed the graved acrylic trophy and $50,000. The This is the first year this initiative has The award citation for the award winners, telling them not to slow Merit Award for Quality was presented been used at SMDC. BMTJPO stated that they were “espe- down. “This is a never-ending process, to Larry Burger, director of the Forty-four U.S. states currently have cially strong in their leadership direc- so you all can’t rest on your laurels be- SMDBL. His organization also received Baldrige programs and that number is tion. Colonel Cambron has long been cause this is only ‘step two’,” he said, an acrylic trophy, and $25,000. All funds expected to grow. In 1991, state pro- an advocate of APIC and has taken the adding, “I believe this is the only way to are to be used for employee enhance- grams collectively received 111 applica- lead in implementing APIC in Targets. operate and focus our resources. And ments. tions; in 1997, that number was 974 and Another strength of Targets is their frankly, I personally believe that SMDC “I am very comfortable with the the state programs trained more than thorough knowledge of and great rela- benefited this year from having a man- fact that we have embedded in the Com- 2,400 Baldrige examiners. tionship with their customers. They have agement plan, despite the fact that it was mand a process by which we can do Internationally, 42 quality programs, identified several methods for assisting rather immature. The fact that we had a great work for both our Army and our most modeled after the Baldrige pro- customers in conducting business, seek- plan resulted in probably more resources nation,” said Costello. “We have a de- gram, are in operation. ing assistance, and voicing complaints.” coming our way than in recent history.” fined ‘road map’ with goals and objec- Many organizations, including The Battle Lab’s award citation in- Initiated by the deputy chief of tives that management has embraced.” United Way, trade associations, govern- cluded their strengths in the competi- staff for Strategic Planning and Analy- How did these SMDC organiza- ment agencies, and companies have cre- tion, stating that “Battle Lab personnel sis (DCSSPA), the Commander’s tions succeed in APIC? ated their own award programs based understand their customers and what Quality Award program was devel- The USAKA/KMR leads the com- on the Baldrige Criteria. they require. A particular strength noted oped to recognize the three top scor- mand in APIC implementation. “After you look at the great support was that several Battle Lab programs had ing SMDC organizations. This process According to USAKA/KMR’s that we’ve gotten both from the Depart- very effective means to deal with cus- also provides feedback comments to award citation, “they attacked APIC so ment of Defense and the Congress of tomer complaints, change requests, and all program participants on their aggressively that they started revamp- the United States, you’ll agree with me software problems. strengths and weaknesses. All MSEs, ing their review and analysis process that this has been an exceptional year ‘Some of these means include a 24- to include the SMDC staff, submitted during the very first APIC training ses- that will allow us to do even better for hour telephone support line, customer their application packages for review. sion. They completed APIC Phases I our Army and our nation in the future,” surveys, and day-to-day contact with A cross-section of representatives and II long before anyone else, and have from each MSE, the SMDC staff, and Costello said. developed a training program, complete customers. They have begun to develop with a CD ROM, designed to train their results data for customer and employee

Colonel James Cambron receives a trophy and a check for $50,000 for the Ballistic Missile Targets Joint Project Office from Lt. Gen. Mr. Larry Burger receives a $25,000 check for the SMDC Battle Lab Costello. from Lt. Gen. Costello. 16 The Eagle SMDC People in the News Worker saves former teacher, co-worker A Space and Missile Defense the next booth was “kind of look- Even though he was choking, around on this big tall guy.” Command (SMDC) engineer saved ing at me,” she said. “I thought Altgilbers was able to remain calm and Later that afternoon, Altgilbers, her former physics instructor from there might be something wrong but even turned around and bent down who works in the SMDC Advanced choking on cornbread on Aug. 17. I couldn’t tell. When he stood up, slightly so that Hatcher could perform Technology Directorate, and who had While eating lunch with a friend then I knew. I asked him if he the Heimlich maneuver. taught her class at the University of in the SMDC cafeteria, Tracey needed help and he shook his head “I’m really short and he’s got to Alabama-Huntsville, tracked Hatcher Hatcher noticed Larry Altgilbers in yes.” be over 6 feet tall,” Hatcher said. “I down to thank her, because she never put my arms around him and pushed returned to the cafeteria. and nothing happened the first time. Hatcher was able to perform the I started to get nervous because I lifesaving rescue due to the first aid didn’t know how much time I had. I training she took while working as a figured that he was choking when he swimming instructor’s aide when she first made eye contact with me. was 14 years old. The training imme- “I leaned against the table for diately came to mind at the critical leverage and tried again. This time it moment but Hatcher says she’s ready worked. I was so glad. I just remem- for a refresher course in CPR and ber thinking, ‘What if it doesn’t work?’ first aid. I didn’t know what to do then. It was “This thing has had such an im- early and there wasn’t anyone else pact on me. I have a 2-year-old son. I around in the cafeteria except my used to give him a handful of Gold- friend. I didn’t know where the phone fish crackers while I took a shower. I was to call for help.” never left him alone to eat a hotdog Once the cornbread was dislodged, or anything, but there’s not much dif- Hatcher made sure Altgilbers was alright ference between cornbread and crack- then quickly excused herself. ers. Now I sit with him at every meal, “I had to leave and go calm for as long as it takes. My husband is down,” she said. the same way.” Hatcher, a general engineer in the Hatcher received a commander’s Battle Lab at SMDC, is also 15 weeks coin from Lt. Gen. John Costello, the pregnant. SMDC commanding general, for her Photo by Sandy Riebeling “Thinking back on it now, I bet heroic efforts. It took two thrusts for Tracey Hatcher to dislodge cornbread from the we were a funny sight,” she said. “A From a Redstone Rocket article by Sandy throat of a choking co-worker. short little pregnant woman pushing Riebeling Three conduct two-hour rescue off Kwajalein Atoll by Barbara Johnson with certificates of appreciation. The Kwajalein Hourglass Total said that he, Darrington and Bulele were at the power plant on Although Jimeal Total, Bob Carlos about 4 p.m. The weather that Darrington and Henry Bulele were at day was extremely windy, the tide was the Carlos power plant for a U.S. Army low, and high waves were crashing on Kwajalein Atoll/Kwajalein Missile shore. Range (USAKA/KMR) mission Me- He said that some people from the morial Day weekend, they performed Assembly of God church on Ebeye had a rescue mission straight out of an apparently spent the night on Carlos and action movie—and they became local were returning to Ebeye by water taxi, a heroes. single-engine 18-foot boat. Total and Darrington, Kwajalein The heroes didn’t see the boat flip Generator Shop employees, along over but they heard people in the with Bulele, who works at the Carlos lagoon and on the pier calling for Photo by Barbara Johnson power plant, went into action when a help. When the men got to the pier Col. Gary K. McMillen presents commander’s coins at a ceremony water taxi capsized in the lagoon off they saw people waving for help about July 14 to, from left, Bob Darrington, Henry Bulele and Jimeal Total. Carlos May 28. a quarter mile from shore. They were honored for rescuing several people after a boating The three Raytheon Utility De- “The boat was extremely full when accident on Carlos Memoral Day weekend. partment employees were honored for leaving the pier. Just past the concrete their heroism recently after managers ship the boat capsized,” Darrington said. did, two lives would have been lost.” how to swim but her seven-year-old at the power plant found out what had Bulele said that there had been 11 Meanwhile, Bulele and Darring- swam over to the younger boy and happened. people on board including five chil- ton stood waist deep in water, with brought him back to the boat. She ex- “They risked their own lives to dren. Some people were clinging to the waves slamming them back, waiting to pressed appreciation for the swim les- save others,” said Col. Gary K. overturned boat, but others were try- help carry people to shore. Total went sons her older son had received in the McMillen, the outgoing USAKA/ ing to stay afloat, fighting the waves. back to help bring the boat in. first grade last year at Kwajalein. KMR commander, presenting the “Total jumped right into the water Then, Darrington went through After being notified by telephone, men with commander’s coins. “These and swam out to the victims,” the surf and made sure that the people a police boat arrived from Ebeye with are the kind of values we are looking Darrington said. “While the waves were hanging on to the boat got in safely. a doctor, who treated several people. for—people who are willing to go the crashing about, Total managed to pull One of the rescued women had The boaters were all returned to extra mile for their fellow man ... you one Marshallese woman to shore. Still her two children, ages three and seven, Ebeye. put your own safety aside for that of coughing up saltwater himself, Total with her. She said that when they went “I was thankful to God, because your co-workers and family.” went right back out into the lagoon and into the water she received a head in- he gave us the chance to go out and John Wallace, Raytheon site man- returned with another Marshallese jury and they were thrown away from help people, and save someone’s life,” ager, also presented the three heroes woman. Had Total not reacted as he her. Her three-year-old didn’t know said Total. September/October 2000 17

SMDC hosts Washington area organization day

by Rhonda Paige Arlington, Va.

SMDC Deputy Chief of Staff Operations, Lt. Col. (P) Rick Dorsey, Gary Masters, DCSOPS, and Sgt. 1st Class John Devenger, DCSOPS acted as cooks for the day.

Cash Snively, SMDC intelligence Dessert contest winner Rosemary analyst, gets an SMDC logo painted on Cuadras, an SMDC personnel his forehead by a contract artist. specialist, displays her rum cake.

amily, friends, food and fun were co-workers in a non-threatening environ- in tall order, as SMDC celebrated ment,” she said. Nicholas Ryan, son of Col. Kevin Ryan, SMDC chief of In addition to getting to know each staff, displays his personalized artwork. its tenth annual Organizational FDay, Aug. 28, at Fort McNair. other better, attendees also enjoyed the Because SMDC Headquarters is fun and competition of golf, softball, located outside the perimeters of an horseshoes, cakewalks, soccer, volleyball, Army installation, all manpower, assets, and probably most popular with the food and equipment needed for the day adults, the best dessert contest. SMDC were facilitated in-house by SMDC Personnel Specialist, Rosemary Cuadros’ military and civilian staff. In his opening rum cake took the grand blue ribbon remarks to the group, Lt. Gen. John prize in that contest. Desserts and Costello, commanding general, SMDC, goodies were also popular among the noted and thanked all from the SMDC younger crowd, judging by the huge family for the hard work that was done to numbers lined up for the kids cakewalk make the day successful. game. Costello also took this, his final In addition to the wide array of Organizational Day as SMDC’s command- desserts, the barbecue and all the fixings ing general, to reflect on the accomplish- were huge crowd pleasers. 10-year-old ments of the command over the past year. Carla Lussier, daughter of Master Sgt. “For those of you who’ve been around James Lussier, agreed that the games and you know that this has been a very activities were lots of fun, but that she productive year for the command and that was most looking forward to the great we’ve accomplished a lot,” said Costello. food just as it was at last year’s event. James Lewis, ASPO security officer, winds up a hit as “For those of you who are new to the A variety of prizes were given to the John Cummings, SMDC congressional liaison officer, organization, take this opportunity not winning ticket holders and winners of plays catcher. only to relax and have fun, but to also the various games and sports competi- meet everyone,” he said. tions. Equal Opportunity Officer, Sgt. 1st The day concluded with remarks by Class Elizabeth Labuda agreed. Col. Kevin Ryan, SMDC chief of staff, “Organizational Day also helps to and a trophy presentation to the overall break down barriers and provides a sports competition winner, the Army setting where people can relax and get to Space Program Office. a point where they accept and talk to their 18 The Eagle

Shopping card simplifies Civilian Employee News military exchange visits Electronic LES by Gerry J. Gilmore was Sept. 3, she added, but DPP cardholders in Beginning September 18, 2000, all employ- American Forces Press Service good credit standing began receiving their Star ees could access their LES through the Em- Cards in the mail weeks ago. ployee/Member Self Service (E/MSS) web site WASHINGTON, Sep. 7, 2000 — Life is sim- Customers are asked to destroy their old DPP at http://emss.dfas.mil. You may either view pler for military exchange customers: Now there’s and NEXCARD cards upon receipt of their new or print the electronic LES. This LES will be just one charge card instead of two. Star Card, according to exchange officials. Cus- available on the Monday before payday. DOD mandated the consolidation of the tomers may still use old cards until Dec. 31; only The electronic LES program is strictly vol- Delayed Payment Plan charge card issued by the Star Card will be accepted after that. The Star untary for Army personnel. You will continue Army and Air Force Exchange Service and the Card cannot be used at Class VI package stores to receive a hard copy LES, unless you choose NEXCARD used in Navy and Marine exchanges, or exchange theaters. It also cannot be used at to discontinue the hard copy through E/MSS. said Connie Gordon, general manager of the food courts, which usually are operated by con- You must have a personal identification AAFES facilities at Fort Belvoir, Va. The Mili- tractors. number (PIN) to access E/MSS. If you don’t tary Star Card is the result, she said. Gordon said the new card features rede- have a PIN for E/MSS, please contact the E/ The Star Card will be accepted at most of signed balance statements designed to help cus- MSS Customer Support Unit at 1-800-390- the AAFES, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast tomers better manage their accounts. The Star 2348 or DSN 580-5122. Guard Exchange activities, to include catalog and Card carries a 14.25 interest rate, the same rate military clothing stores operated by AAFES and as the cards it supercedes, said AAFES customer Federal Employee Health Benefit Marine Corps exchanges, Gordon said. Previ- service agent Stacy Martinez. That rate, she said, (FEHB) Conversion Plan ously, the only exchange-issued cards that stores is competitive with similar store credit cards. honored were their own command’s. Use of the Star Cards benefits the entire mili- Effective October 8, 2000, the payroll de- “We expect the Marine Corps and Coast tary, Gordon said. “The earnings that come from ductions for FEHB premiums will be non- Guard to be opening up more sites to accept the this card are plowed back into the military com- taxable. This will happen automatically. No ac- Military Star Card very soon,” she said. munity in the form of morale, welfare and recre- tion is required on the part of the employee. AAFES, the Naval Exchange Service Com- ation dividends,” she said. “It is a special benefit The implementation of this plan will affect mand, the Marine Corps Exchange Service and for customers (and) a win-win.” your net pay. The plan works by reducing the the Coast Guard have approved the new card for For more information about the Military Star amount of your gross earnings so that use, she said. The official implementation date Card program, visit: http://www.aafes.com. withholdings for Old Age Survivors Disabil- ity Insurance (OASDI), Medicare, and federal, state and local taxes will be less. The LES will show ‘Pretax FEHB exclusion $_____.__’ in DOD to establish food card the remarks section. Any cash payments for FEHB, however, will not be included as pretax deductions. The program for troops new benefit applies only to payroll deductions. An example of this situation would be: If an by Spec. Adriane Foss Crutchfield said the House plan would allot employee was on Leave Without Pay for an ex- $100-$500 per month, depending on where a mili- tended period, but wanted to retain health ben- WASHINGTON (Army News Service, tary member would qualify in the food stamp range. efits, he would be required to pay for his health Sept. 18, 2000)—The Department of Defense an- “Under this plan, the moment the services insurance biweekly with a check. Since the nounced last month that it intends to establish a start paying $200 a month in benefits, we start check is not a payroll deduction, he would not supplemental subsistence program for its service getting a pay inversion, whereby junior members receive the pretax benefit. members that, if approved, should offer a more will be making more money than senior person- Any retroactive payroll deductions will not equitable deal sometime next year for troops liv- nel,” said Crutchfield. qualify for the pretax deduction. The Internal ing on or off post. “We’d like to say about the military that our Revenue Service (IRS) prohibits any retroac- Currently, an off-post service member’s Basic pay system is based on performance, experience, tive adjustments to taxable income, even when Allowance for Housing is included as income in and responsibility, not personal choice (i.e: family it is clear an agency is at fault due to an admin- the formula to determine his or her eligibility un- size),” he said. istrative error. der the United States Department of Agriculture’s “We just went through a pay table reform, and Any employees that desire to waive the food stamp program. For service members who the major point of that was that members would pretax benefit for FEHB, must submit a re- live on post, however, the value of their housing get paid for their performance. This plan would be quest for waiver memorandum through their is not used to determine eligibility, creating an paying them for the size of their families.” Civilian Personnel Advisory Center (CPAC). In unfair advantage based solely on where the mili- Created primarily for the military’s junior en- turn, the CPACs will forward the waiver to the tary member resides. listed personnel, the DOD plan would provide par- employee’s servicing payroll office. However, with DOD’s plan, BAH will not be ticipants with an electronic debit card authorized Please refer any questions to the your a factor in determining the eligibility of soldiers for a fixed value that can be used to purchase food CPAC and NOT your DCPS customer service residing off post. goods at any commissary. The value of the debit representative (CSR) After the Senate and House submitted their card will be determined by the member’s family plans to reduce military use of food stamps, DOD size and pay grade. Army Benefits Center Services appealed the plans and issued its own-one the DOD’s plan will closely favor the USDA’s pro- military’s top officials believe will creative the great- gram, according to Crutchfield. Differences in- Civilian employees in Hunstville are now est equity between service personnel. clude: able to change their benefits—retirement, sur- According to Lt. Col. Crutchfield, the Army’s - Members living on post must use their vivor benefits, health and life insurance—over chief of the Compensations and Entitlement’s debit cards only at commissaries. the telephone or on the Web through the Army Branch, the Senate plan proposed a supplemental Benefits Center for Civilians (ABC-C). basic allowance of $180 per month that would be - Soldiers who are geographically removed Automated services for the above benefits distributed to food-stamp-eligible patrons. from access to commissaries will receive a cash and for the Thrift Savings Plan began on Sep- “A problem with the Senate bill,” said allowance if eligible for the program. tember 11. Crutchfield, “is even with $180 a month, some According to a DOD report entitled “Taking “The ABC-C is an effort to maximize the members would still be eligible for the (USDA) Care of Its Own,” costs to start and maintain the use of technology and promote efficiency food stamp program. plan could top $144 million through 2007. through the consolidation of resources,” said “We have some cases where it would take a The DOD plan is awaiting approval on Capi- Kathy Cole, chief of the center. “It uses state- substantial amount of money to remove one ex- tol Hill. Crutchfield said DOD hopes to hear of-the-art technology similar to automated sys- treme case from the food stamp rolls. something by the beginning of fiscal 2001. tems used by banks, colleges and health insur- “The Department had questions about the ance carriers,” she said. Senate initiative because it was actually changing (Editor’s note: Adriane Foss is an associate editor More information is available online at: the reasons for the increased compensation to in- of the Inside the Turret newspaper at Fort Knox, www.abc.army.mil. creased family size.” Ky.) September/October 2000 19 Reprinted Articles from FY 2000 THAAD nears start of engineering, manufacturing & development The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense initial production lines, and then verified opera- Command’s (SMDC’s) Contracting and Acqui- tionally suitable and effective in comprehensive phase sition Management Office awarded the engineer- ground and flight testing. ing and manufacturing development (EMD) The effort also includes designing and devel- contract for the Theater High Altitude Area oping a logistics infrastructure for fielding and Defense, or THAAD, missile defense system to maintaining of the THAAD weapon system and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Mis- its peculiar support equipment for the service life. siles and Space Operations, in Sunnyvale, Calif., Sufficient production-representative weapon on June 28, 2000. system components will be built to support all The contract is valued at almost $4 billion— testing to include initial operational test and evalu- $3,966,948,706—for a period of 98 months. The ation and verify the THAAD readiness for low actual starting date for the contract to go into rate initial production and full rate production. effect is Aug. 4. The management of this contract is vested in the During the EMD program, the system U.S. Army THAAD Project Office in Huntsville, design will evolve to satisfy the Army’s key Ala., and their reporting chain including the Pro- operational requirements while developing gram Executive Office, Air and Missile Defense, weapon system components that are not only and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. effective, but are affordable, ready for produc- SMDC administers the contract. tion, and available to the U.S. Army for a first “A lot of hard work went into this contract- unit equipped (FUE) in fiscal year 2007. ing effort,” said Mark Lumer, SMDC’s contract- The weapon system components consist of ing executive. “Both sides were involved in some hit-to-kill missiles, highly accurate radars, sophis- serious negotiations and are quite proud of this ticated battle managers, and launchers. accomplishment, which will bring our nation’s The components will be designed to survive theater missile defense one big step closer to frui- in a battlefield environment, manufactured on tion.” Balloon and HUMVEE mounted missiles work JLENS hits over-the-horizon cruise missile by Gerda Sherrill sensor on board an elevated aerostat platform tect the force,” said Col. Mary Fuller, the JLENS Huntsville, Ala. guides a surface-launched interceptor missile project manager. beyond the range of its own organic radar to During Forward Pass Mission #5 in early The Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile the point of engagement,” said Lt. Gen. John April, an AMRAAM interceptor destroyed a Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, or Costello, commanding general of the U.S. Army BQM-74 target simulating a low-flying cruise mis- JLENS, announced the success of two cruise Space and Missile Defense Command. sile. This intercept was the first-ever live, over- missile defense Forward Pass demonstrations at The concept requires separate surveillance the-horizon engagement of its kind of a cruise White Sands Missile Range, N.M. and precision track and illumination radars to missile target using an elevated sensor platform. These demonstrations are a part of a series identify targets and cue the HUMRAAM to The shoot-down was one of four cruise missile of tests utilizing JLENS and surface-launched intercept low-flying, maneuvering cruise engagements planned during the exercise, which Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles, or missile targets. “The Forward Pass demonstra- is sponsored by the Joint Theater Air and Missile AMRAAMs, mounted on a HUMVEE designated tion validates the need for JLENS in tomorrow’s Defense Organization. as the HUMRAAM. battlefield and significantly improves the Com- “JLENS is a critical piece of the cruise “Forward Pass is a concept under which a mander-in-Chief ’s warfighter capability to pro- missile defense architecture,” Fuller said. The system, when fully developed, will consist of two elevated sensors: a surveillance radar and a precision tracking and illumination radar. The Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL) surveillance radar provides long-range three- dimensional air picture enhanced by IFF (iden- destroys Katyusha rocket tification friend or foe) and other identification systems. This information distributed via the June 6, 2000, White Sands Missile Range, energy weapon systems have the potential to play Joint Data Network and Joint Composite Track- N.M. – The Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL) a significant role in defending U.S. national ing Network contributes to the single integrated demonstrator successfully tracked and destroyed security interests worldwide. It also gives the air picture. a single rocket in flight for the first time and dur- Government of Israel an avenue for protecting The successful test demonstrated the suitabil- ing the first attempt at approximately 3:45 p.m. its citizens actively and effectively against cross- ity of the JLENS against the cruise missile threat. EDT. border rocket attacks.” The test was the first of a series of shoot- In July 1996, the U.S. Department of De- SMDC realigns technical downs before the THEL is handed over to the fense (DOD) and the Israeli Ministry of Defense Government of Israel. (IMoD) signed a memorandum of agreement center operations The THEL is a joint Advanced Concept which spelled out the development and func- Technology Demonstration (ACTD) program tional testing of a THEL demonstrator. The In June the Space and Missile Defense Technical between the United States and Israel designed to THEL consists of subsystems that include a Center was realigned to establish the Space and Missile negate the threat posed by Katyusha rockets to laser, a pointer-tracker, a command, control, Defense Center for Technology Development (CTD) populated areas in northern Israel. communications, and intelligence (C3I) center, and the Joint Center for Technology Integration (JCTI). “We’ve just turned science fiction into real- and a fire-control radar. TRW, Inc., is the prime The CTD will plan, develop, coordinate and ex- ity,” said Lt. Gen. John Costello, commanding gen- contractor. ecute the Army portion of the Ballistic Missile De- eral, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Com- The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense fense Organization technology program as well as the mand. “This compelling demonstration of Command (SMDC) is the Department of SMDC directed energy and space information tech- THEL’s defensive capabilities proves that directed Defense’s executive agent for the joint THEL/ nology development. ACTD program. The JCTI will be the BMDO Executive Agent for science and technology programs. 20 The Eagle Reprinted Articles from FY 2000 BATTLE LAB LEADS THE WAY INTO .... THE NEXT MILLENNIUM John Buckley Huntsville, Ala.

The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Battle Lab (SMDBL) has had a successful history supporting the warfighter. The latest ex- ample of this is the 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command’s (AAMDC) Future Opera- tional Capability (FOC) program. The program began in early 1999 with guidance and require- ments from the commanding generals of the SMDC, U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery School, and the 32nd AAMDC. In general terms the battle lab would provide new technologies that will lead to the required command and control capabili- ties for the successful conduct of Joint Theater Air and Missile Defense by the 32nd AAMDC. The SMDBL developed the baseline FOC through close coordination with the 32nd AAMDC staff, TRADOC Systems Manager, Di- rectorate of Combat Developments (Fort Bliss), and the Air and Missile Defense Command and

Control Systems (AMDCCS) office. Photo by John Buckley The FOC was exercised for the first time in Both active duty and national guard soldiers from the 32nd AAMDC put the FOC to the test at a “live” environment during Roving Sands ’00 at Roving Sands ‘00 . Fort Bliss, Texas June 6-24. SMDBL personnel trained 32nd AAMDC soldiers both in Huntsville The advanced Warfare Environment win- grated government and industry product team. at the Advanced Research Center and at Fort dows based software successfully performed The SMDBL integrated proven products from Bliss. The trained soldiers then manned the FOC functionalities that before were reserved for other service battle labs such as the U.S. Marine to provide valuable feedback for an independent UNIX based system. Advanced visualization Corps warfighting center Multi-Source Correlator assessment. This assessment will be used, along techniques both in two and three dimensional en- Tracker, and products and services from 19 dif- with other collected data and observations, to vironments assist in situational awareness. Com- ferent contractors to make the FOC a success. provide the future vision for the FOC program. munications capabilities have the potential to be The 32nd’s FOC is truly an experiment in ad- The baseline FOC at Roving Sands demonstrated enhanced through miniaturization and new tech- vanced methodologies and techniques that will that current in-theater footprints can be reduced niques in wireless networks. continue providing unique and innovative C4I ca- by about 70 percent. The FOC was developed through an inte- pabilities to the modern warfighter.

Eagle Vision II imaging supports counterdrug efforts south of the border

by Ed White ment commander. “We can push out a useable users range from the people in plans, all the op- Colorado Springs, Colo. product in a few hours to whoever needs it.” erators, and the counter drug task forces. Haynie added that EV-II was also designed to Sgt. Dawn German is a terrain analyst, operating High on a hilltop overlooking a picturesque receive and process data from the next genera- one of the consoles on the production side of the farming valley somewhere in the Amazon Basin of tion of new, high resolution, remote sensing sat- trailer. “We can put this information in a number of South America, a drug lord stands surveying his ellites like IKONOS-1, QuickBird-1, and Orb formats, from flat maps, completely rectified for use, current Coca crop, assessing its worth, determin- View-3 which are expected to be launched in the to three-dimensional flythroughs,” she said. ing its readiness for harvest. next several years. The key to this system is the speed with which Little does he realize that high overhead, his Recently, EV-II was working in support of they can get imagery to our forces, according to crop is also being watched by the U.S. Southern the U.S. Army Southern Command, gathering Haynie. “And there is the advantage of being able Command, from commercial imaging satellites. The imagery of South America, which is to give this imagery to our allies as well because constellations of commercial satellites float through SOUTHCOM’s area of responsibility. it is not classified,” he said. If this same imagery space taking images and sending them to a ground “We expected to get 80 clear scenes,” ex- was obtained from classified national sources, it station called Eagle Vision II. plained Haynie. “But we are halfway through the could not be shared. From the outside, EV-II looks like an olive mission time-frame and we already have over 100 Another clear advantage of the system is the drab tractor trailer with a huge dish antenna that scenes. We expect to have over 300 scenes by the ability to detect changes over time in the land- would make any satellite television viewer jeal- end of the mission,” Haynie added. Each scene scape. This is good for anticipating drug crop ous. But, what goes on inside the trailer is re- is approximately 60 kilometers square. growth, or it can be used to determine the amount markable. The equipment inside receives imag- While numbers of scenes received are impor- of damage done by a hurricane, simply by com- ery from the French SPOT Image satellite and tant, what happens inside the trailer is still the more paring images through time. the Canadian RADARSAT-1 satellite. The data interesting part of the story. Once received, the For an investment of about $10 million, the is received on one side of the bank of comput- imagery is processed on site and can then be passed nation has a capability that runs off other people’s ers in the trailer, passed to the other side where to the user within hours of receipt by the opera- systems, one that can rapidly deploy anywhere in processing takes place. tors inside the trailer. It used to take weeks to get the world, and one that provides critical infor- “We watch the passes from horizon to hori- commercial imagery like this from the companies mation to our forces in support of the full spec- zon,” said Capt. Tim Haynie, the EV-II detach- who supply it. In the case of SOUTHCOM, the trum of modern military missions. September/October 2000 21 Reprinted Articles from FY 2000 Army officers help build space station Three Army astronauts go to Space this year; First time two Army officers perform space walk together by Ed White Colorado Springs, Colo.

On a clear night, components of the inter- national space station can be seen orbiting the earth. These segments will grow within the next four years to become the full-fledged space sta- tion, with Army astronauts playing a key role in its construction and manning. Three flights are planned this year that involve Voss, a veteran of Army active duty and trips cockpit—technically called the Multifunction Elec- either active or retired Army astronauts as crew to space, said, “I’m really happy to be assigned to tronic Display Subsystem—replaces obsolete instru- members. As this article was published, Lt. Col. Jeff STS-101, because it gives me the opportunity to ments and three monochrome computer screens Williams and (retired) Col. Jim Voss were sched- use the space station training I’ve been doing for with 11 full-color graphical displays. uled to take off on mission STS-101, April 25. the last four years and to see my future home in The new cockpit weighs less, uses less elec- “As we wrap up the training and get close to space.” Voss, who retired from the Army last year, tricity, provides more backup instruments, and most launch, it’s difficult to describe the emotions,” Wil- is also scheduled for mission STS-102, next Febru- importantly, sets the stage for a future “smart cock- liams said. This was Williams’ first space flight. “The ary, for a five-month stint with a Russian cosmo- pit,” now in development for the shuttle. difficulty became apparent to me during [our last naut and another American astronaut. “I look forward to the repair work we will do week of] practice countdown at the Cape.” Voss and Willams’ work will increase the liv- on the station and to the space walk with Lt. Col. He said being at the launch pad and strapping ability and configuration of the international space Jeff Williams,” Voss said. He refers to the other into Atlantis was exciting, especially knowing that the station as well as extend the service life of the cur- part of the mission that includes a space walk where real launch was only a couple of weeks away. “On rent configuration. Their mission will also show- Williams and Voss will perform maintenance on the the other hand, it often still does not seem real.” case a new feature on the shuttle Atlantis. A new station. “This will be the first time for two Army of- ficers to do a space walk together,” Voss said. “Al- though I retired [last year], I’m still a soldier!” “This assignment was a great honor with the space walk being the special surprise,” Williams added. “This experience will fulfill a long time dream to go to space, work on the space station, and con- duct a space walk all in one mission.” The STS-101 crew will deliver a ton of items to be used by the first resident crew members, who will occupy the ISS later this year. “My biggest concern is focusing so hard on the tasks to be done that I miss the experience,” Williams said. “But, I don’t think Jim [Voss] and my other crewmates will let that happen. They’ve been a great crew to train with on my “rookie” flight, and I very much look forward to flying with them.” Later in the year, another veteran of space travel—Col. William McArthur—will serve as the flight engineer onboard mission STS-92, with a primary mission to attach an integrated truss system. “The truss system is an early exterior frame- work,” McArthur explained, “that will allow the first U.S. solar arrays to be temporarily installed on Unity for early power, on flight 4A.” The truss system contains the Ku-band com- munications system and a pressurized mating adapter, according to McArthur. He and crewmates will conduct four space walks to configure those components. “This is after they’re attached to the space station using the shuttle robotic arm,” McArthur said.

Photo by LuAnne Fantasia The pressurized mating adapter provides a shuttle docking port to allow solar array installa- Dr. Seuss said it all in his classic book for children of all ages, “Oh, the places you’ll go,” and tion on a subsequent mission, McArthur said. And Army Astronaut Lt. Col. Jeff Williams passed the word along to a little girl at Martha’s Table, in Washington, D.C., when he told her about the places she can go some day with hard work and the Ku-band communications system supports early determination. As we went to press, Williams was scheduled to leave Earth April 25, in his first science capability and U. S. television. STS-92 is Space mission to the International Space Station. He and (retired Army Colonel) Jim Voss will slated for a September launch. be the first two Army officers to take a space walk together. (LuAnne Fantasia contributed to this article.) 22 The Eagle Reprinted Articles from FY 2000 NMD target vehicle flies demonstration by Jeff Compton for the Orbital/Suborbital Program mission. Huntsville, Ala. Sandia National Laboratories builds the target payloads and the deployment rack. The The newest strategic target developed by payload for the demonstration mission the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense consisted of a re-entry vehicle mass simulator, Command (SMDC) showed off in late May and and instrumented medium balloon decoy, four looked good doing it. canisterized medium balloon decoys, and a On May 28, 2000, SMDC successfully canisterized large balloon decoy. This payload conducted the demonstration flight of the was selected to provide traceability to previous Orbital/Suborbital Program Target Launch NMD missions while flight-testing new Vehicle (TLV), from Vandenberg Air Force Base, technologies. Calif. The Orbital/Suborbital Program TLV The Ballistic Missile Targets Joint Project demonstration flight was also being used as a Office is the executive agent for ballistic missile risk reduction flight by national missile defense targets acquired for the Ballistic Missile Defense for its radars and battle management system Organization (BMDO). The Strategic Targets elements. No intercept was attempted. In the Product Office provides strategic missile tar-gets demon-stration flight, the TLV was launched for BMDO’s National Missile Defense (NMD) from Launch Facility 06 at Vanderberg AFB. program. to a point in the broad ocean area north of the The new target launch vehicle was SMDC Kwajalein Missile Range. developed to meet future integrated flight test The re-entry vehicle mass simulator requirements for NMD. The TLV system traveled more than 4000 miles before burning consists of a front section atop a three-stage up in the atmosphere upon re-entry. Some of Minuteman II booster. SMDC’s sensors participating as part of the risk

The front section is comprised of a reduction flight were the Airborne Surveillance photo by Diana Helgesen clamshell shroud, which houses the target Testbed and Kwajalein Missile Range. payload, the guidance control assembly module “Our joint team has worked extremely hard The new target launch vehicle blasts from and a separation module. Orbital Sciences to get to this point and we look forward to Vanderberg Air Force Base Silo #6 on its Corporation, under contract to the U.S. Air NMD intercepting re-entry vehicles from our maiden flight across the Pacific Ocean toward Force Space and Missile Systems Center, builds new launch system,” said Lt. Col. Tom Harvill, Kwajalein Missile Range. the front section and provides launch services product manager in Hunstville, Ala. PAC-3 notches fifth hit-to-kill success The preliminaries are in and all test data triot missile being developed to provide in- achieved. Last September, a second intercept points to success for the PAC-3. creased defense capability against advanced test was successful. When the Ballistic Missile Defense Orga- tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and The remaining PAC-3 missions will con- nization and the Army conducted a test of the hostile aircraft. The PAC-3 uses kinetic en- sist of 14 PAC-3 missiles intercepting various Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile at White ergy to destroy targets rather than employing classes of targets. The Patriot program is man- Sands, N.M., Feb.5, the hit-to-kill PAC-3 mis- a high explosive warhead. aged by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organi- sile notched its fifth success. The PAC-3 successfully completed four zation at the Pentagon, and executed by the Test objectives included demonstrating missions prior to this flight test. The first two Army Program Executive Office for Air and system and missile capability to engage a full- developmental test missions consisted of mis- Missile Defense and the Army Patriot Project body tactical ballistic missile using remote op- siles with special instrumentation packages in Office, Huntsville, Ala. erations. These included employing the launch- place of the seeker and the missions were struc- Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Con- ing station several kilometers from the radar tured to verify critical systems and missile per- trol, Dallas, Texas, is the prime contractor re- and engagement control stations; and demon- formance prior to conducting target intercept sponsible for missile development. The seeker strating intercept using the tactical software flight tests. is produced by Boeing, also in Huntsville, Ala. which allows the seeker to select the opti- A seeker characterization flight mission in Raytheon Systems Company, the Patriot sys- mal aimpoint on the Hera target. March of last year tested the PAC-3 missile with tem prime contractor, is the system integrator The PAC-3 missile is a high velocity, hit- a seeker. Although not a primary objective of for the PAC-3 missile segment. to-kill missile and is the next generation Pa- the mission, an intercept of the target was (PEO AMD press release.) New Hera target intercepted in PAC-3 test The Hera target reached an altitude of 107 jectory to White Sands Missile Range to support achieved. kilometers and flew 344 kilometers down range an endoatmospheric intercept of the non-sepa- Prime contractor for the Hera targets pro- in 431 seconds, and the PAC-3 found it. rating Modified Ballistic Reentry Vehicle 3 gram is Coleman Aerospace Company of Or- Both systems were a success in the Feb. 5 (MBRV-3) by the PAC-3 system. lando, Fla., supported by principal subcontrac- intercept test at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. The target was launched on a 148-degree tors Space Vector Corporation of Fountain Val- The Hera target system, developed by the azimuth and allowed to coast for 118 seconds ley, Calif., and Aerotherm Corporation of Moun- U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Com- after first-stage burnout to accommodate tra- tain View, Calif. mand for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organi- jectory shaping and first-stage motor placement The Space and Missile Systems Center of zation, flew in support of the Patriot Advanced in the designated impact area. Following si- the U.S. Air Force provides the booster motors. Capability 3, or PAC-3, Developmental Test 5. multaneous first-stage separation and second- At SMDC, the program is managed by Lt. Col. The ballistic missile target is typically used for stage ignition, an energy management maneu- James Matthewson, Jr., theater targets product test and evaluation of BMDO interceptor sys- ver and a dogleg maneuver were performed to manager. tems. The Hera target flown for this test was place the target complex on the final flight azi- That program is part of the Ballistic Missile the Block IIB non-separating (unitary) Hera muth of 140 degrees. Following second-stage Targets Joint Project Office; Col. James Cambron, configuration with a ballast payload. burnout, the target body was re-oriented by project manager. The Hera target was flown from Launch the Coast Control System to provide the de- Complex 96 at Fort Wingate, N.M. The DT-5 sired conditions at the altitude of interest. Pre- (U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command press target missile flew a northwest to southeast tra- liminary flight data indicate all objectives were release.) September/October 2000 23 Reprinted Articles from FY 2000 Reserve components, ARSPACE team up by Ed White to the Colorado Army National Guard. “The Guard has also signed up to provide a Colorado Springs, Colo. “The Army Reserve and the Colorado Na- total of 15 additional people to support U.S. tional Guard have each committed to manning Army Space Command,” Anton said. “October will usher in a new era of coop- two six-person Army Space Support Teams, for The additional people will support informa- eration between the active Army and the Army a total of 24 people,” said Maj. George Anton, tion operations activities at the Army Space National Guard and Reserve,” said Lt. Gen. Force Development officer at Army Space Com- Command’s 1st Space Battalion’s Mobile Tech- John Costello, commanding general at the U.S. mand. nology Team, as well as operations of its 1st Sat- Army Space and Missile Defense Command. “In October they’ll begin a training program ellite Control Battalion. Army guard and reserve personnel begin that may take up to two years, which is designed “These additional missions are of particu- making Army history in October when they start to enable them to effectively augment any of lar interest to the Guard because they position drilling with the U.S. Army Space Command the five active-duty teams already in existence.” the Guard to be part of the growing activities here. “I’m absolutely thrilled with this latest de- “The mission of [the space support teams] is in these fields,” Anton said. velopment in the evolution of space within the to provide or coordinate force enhancement from “The Colorado Army National Guard is ex- Army,” Costello said. “I look forward to growing space for Army units,” said Maj. Donald Snow, cited to be part of the Army Space Team,” said together as demands in space increase in the fu- commander of the 1st Space Battalion’s Army Maj. Gen. Roger Schultz, director of Colorado’s ture.” Space Support Company. Army National Guard. Reserve Forces support to the U.S. Army “Army space support teams are capable of “We look forward to doing our part to Space Command will be provided by both in- rapidly deploying and using the latest technology usher in this new era of cooperation and to dividual mobilization augmentees assigned to to provide a full range of space products and op- growing together in the future.” the Army Reserve and by guardsmen assigned erational support to Army units worldwide.” Army activates 1st Space Battalion in Colorado The United States Army lst Space Battalion “We structured this battalion so it would retain a to speeches and briefings to U.S. and international was activated Dec. 15 at Colorado Springs, Colo. great deal of flexibility to respond and grow audiences. “This unit is an example of the type of orga- quickly.” Coffin has ideas about where Army Space nization that will enable the smaller, lighter, more He said the battalion provides Army units both needs to concentrate to stay on track. agile fighting forces recently envisioned by Gen. the tools and the knowledge to take full advantage “In many ways, Army Space is admired by our Eric Shinseki, the Army chief of staff,” said Lt. of the nation’s tremendous on-orbit capabilities. counterparts in the Air Force and Navy. We have Gen. John Costello, commanding general, U.S. “The highly mobile teams and detachments tai- the reputation of being able to do a tremendous Army Space and Missile Defense Command. lor their capabilities and products to maximize re- amount with an extremely small organization. In Prior to the formation of the battalion, the sponsiveness to soldiers,” Coffin said. He said a highly that respect, we are right on track,” Coffin said. Army’s four Space Support Teams and five Joint mobile technology team will work closely with com- “I told the members of the new space battal- Tactical Ground Stations worked under the Army mercial firms and the command’s Battle Lab to rap- ion that we have a great heritage of innovation Space Command operations staff, providing sup- idly adapt the latest space technologies for use by the behind us. But don’t get confused—it’s not a pil- port to exercises and operations Armywide. Now, soldier. low to rest on. It’s a foundation to build on,” he these key elements that bring space support to “This will help determine if there can be space- said. the warfighter are brought under the operational based solutions to battlefield problems,” Coffin said. The Army Space Command in Colorado control of a commander focused on providing Coffin recently completed three years on the Springs, Colo., is a major subordinate element of immediate space support, according to Lt. Col. Tim U.S. Space Command staff. During his first year there, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Com- Coffin, the new battalion’s first commander. he was a combined intelligence watch commander in mand. Along with the 1st Space Battalion, “Our goal is to continue to normalize space Cheyenne Mountain. His last two years were spent ARSPACE is home to the 1st Satellite Control Bat- operations in the Army. The new structure will working as the deputy director of an action group talion. make the chain of command much cleaner, while for the commander in chief—a select group of (Some quotes were extracted from a late-December article providing the flexibility we need to meet the space officers and NCOs who directly support the CINC by Army News Service.) challenges of the new millennium,” Coffin said. in activities ranging from congressional testimony, Controlling the new high ground 1st Satellite Control Battalion has long history by Ed White area known as “Clark’s Belt”, some 22,300 miles gible for assignment to one of the five DSCS Colorado Springs, Colo. above the earth. The first of these spin-stabi- Operations Centers located worldwide. lized, four-channel satellites was launched in In 1990, the Army Space Command was In 1873, three soldiers of the US Army Sig- Nov. 1971, and the program eventually grew to given responsibility for the operation and main- nal Corps’ weather service opened the world’s 12 satellites on orbit. tenance of these operations centers, and in highest weather observatory, on the 14,110- The last of these satellites was maneuvered Nov. 1995, ARSPACE established the 1st Satel- foot summit of Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs. into supersynchronous orbit December of last lite Control Battalion to perform this critical Working from a hastily built two room year, and the DSCS constellation became 100 mission. stone building with a tin roof held down with percent comprised of three-axis stabilized, six Today the 305 authorized soldiers and ci- rocks, these signal soldiers controlled the ulti- channel, DSCS-III birds. With 14 satellites in vilians of the 1st Satellite Control Battalion en- mate high ground of their day. the program and 10 currently on orbit, DSCS- sure all users of the satellites can communi- Sending reports via an 11-mile telegraph III is one of DoD’s most successful programs cate effectively (network control), and they line to Colorado Springs, these soldiers found ever. configure the communications package and their reports reprinted in newspapers nation- In the days of the Pike’s Peak weather sta- ensure the satellites remain healthy (payload wide. tion, Maj. Gen. Albert Myer, chief of the Sig- control). In 1968, 95 years later, the Defense Depart- nal Corps, trained his weathermen at Fort It’s ironic that today, 126 years after the first ment decided to place Signal Corps soldiers in Whipple, Va., which was later named Fort Myer signal soldiers climbed Pikes Peak to occupy the control of a new patch of high ground when in his honor. Today’s controllers of the high ultimate high ground of the time, at the base of DoD gave the go-ahead for development of the ground receive their intensive training at Fort that mighty peak signal soldiers of the 1st Satel- Defense Satellite Communications System-II Gordon, Ga. These satellite controllers receive lite Control Battalion continue to serve the Na- program. This time the high ground was in an 51 weeks of training, after which they are eli- tion. 24 The Eagle Deputy Commanding General Hits Ground Running In New Assignment COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—“This new position is a commitment by the Army,” said Col. (P) Richard V. Geraci, “It is clearly indicative of the Army’s growing role in space and the requirement for the use of space and space related technologies to carry out the Army’s missions across the full spectrum of mili- tary operations. Space will play a key role in the Army’s objective force of the future,” he added. He was speaking of his new assignment as the first Deputy Commanding General for Operations, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) and Deputy Commanding General for Army Space Command during an early morning SMDC Physical Fitness Run on Peterson Air Force Base. “Being dual-hatted gives me a lot of ground to cover. I will be involved in the oversight of the command’s National Missile Defense, Theater Missile Defense, Space Control, and computer network attack and defense programs. I will also be working Army Space and missile defense op- erational issues,” Gerasi said. Another of Geraci’s responsibilities will be work- ing with the newly established Functional Area 40 Space Operations Officer program. The Army is com- mitted to establishing space expertise among a corps of staff officers. This pool of officers will directly The new Deputy Commanding General for U.S. Army Space Command, Col. (P) Richard V. support corps commanders and warfighting CINCs. Geraci (at front next to lead guidon bearer), leads ARSPACE personnel on the final leg of an Geraci has had a number of Joint, NATO, and early morning three-mile run through Peterson Air Force Base. Air and Missile Defense assignments. Recently he was assigned to the U. S. Joint Forces Command the space complex on Peterson Air Force Base,” appreciate the professionalism and dedication of where he served as the Chief of Operations, Joint he added. this team. We have a lot of work ahead of us in a Warfighting Experimentation Directorate until 1999. He also said the SMDC and ARSPACE folks number of cutting edge projects and programs and From 1999 until his assignment to SMDC, he served here have established a strong position and they I look forward to the challenges this assignment as the deputy director of the Joint Warfighting Ex- understand the importance of working as part of a will bring.” perimentation Battle Lab. team with the other services, Geraci added. “Since In a video teleconference between the many SMDC has major subordinate elements in my arrival I have spoken to many of the senior mili- nodes of SMDC, Geraci and his wife Kathy were Washington D.C., Huntsville, Ala., and Colorado tary and they all have high praise for the Army’s welcomed by Lt. Gen. John Costello, the SMDC com- Springs. “Tremendous work of great importance space warfighters, whether they are at Schriever or manding general. to our national defense goes on in Huntsville and Peterson Air Force bases, or working in support of “This is truly a great day. We finally have es- in Washington, D.C. Colorado Springs is where it the soldiers on Fort Carson.” tablished a general officer position at Colorado comes together to support the warfighter, it is the Geraci said, “I am impressed by the level of Springs to assist the commanding general of Army epicenter of the military space world,” Geraci said. expertise and knowledge of the civilians and our Space Command. This is certainly a milestone as “The entire military space community will soon soldiers in the command. The more I learn about the Army moves toward a more active role in the either be headquartered here or be represented at the command and my responsibilities, the more I space arena,” said Costello. Arrow Weapon System intercepts target The Israeli Ministry of Defense, in cooperation The Green Pine fire control radar and the Cit- with the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Organization ron Tree battle management center participated fully (BMDO) and the U.S. Army, successfully conducted in the test, performing battle planning, launch op- the second intercept of a target ballistic missile by erations, and up link/down link message applications, the Arrow Weapon System (AWS) at Palmahim Test as well post intercept verifications. Both assets worked Range in Israel September 14. While this was the according to plan and fulfilled all test objectives. eighth overall Arrow 2 anti-tactical ballistic missile Analysis of all data is underway to evaluate and con- flight test, it was the first use of an actual production firm results. line Arrow interceptor. Initial data analysis indicates Full details on accuracy and actual method of that all test objectives were achieved. kill (warhead only or warhead and body-to-body im- This is especially noteworthy, due to the fact pact) are not yet available, but will be determined that this was the first intercept for the AWS before a Data Reduction Review, currently sched- against a new air-launched, in-bound target called uled for early November. the Black Sparrow. Previous tests were against a The U.S. and Israeli engineering teams are very TM-91 target, which was always flown on an out- satisfied with the preliminary test results. bound trajectory. The Black Sparrow was carried The Arrow program is a joint U.S./Israeli ef- to its launch area on the wing of an Israeli Air fort to develop a ballistic missile defense system for Force F-15, then released. The Black Sparrow the State of Israel. The information gained from the flew on a trajectory towards the Israeli coast, to program has potential application in several U.S. mis- simulate an incoming Scud missile, with its fi- sile defense programs. nal impact point the designated “defended area” The United States and Israel fund the Arrow for the AWS. program. Israel Aircraft Industries is the prime con- The Arrow interceptor took off and flew in a tractor. Mr. Robert Szerszynski, the Product Man- nominal trajectory, acquired the Black Sparrow tar- ager for the Arrow Product Office of the Program get, then locked on and homed on the designated Executive Office for Air and Missile Defense, man- threat. The warhead was fused at the proper range ages the U.S. effort through funding provided by the Arrow interceptor lifts off toward its first in- and the Arrow interceptor destroyed the target. BMDO. bound target. The Arrow destroyed its target.