A globally Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) is critical to the defense of our nation, deployed forces, friends and allies. The proliferation of ballistic/cruise missiles and related technologies and the increasing availability of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), all of which can be used to deliver weapons of mass destruction, create significant threats to the current global security environment. To address these threats, the Army continues to transform its Air and Missile Defense (AMD) force to a tailorable modular force with improved deployability and increased lethality that fights as a fully integrated component of a Joint, Interagency and Multinational (JIM) force. The transformed Army AMD force will transition from a system centric battle command to network-centric Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) architecture capable of operating within the Army and Joint Integrated Air and Missile defense framework. Army AMD will provide fully integrated air and missile defense through a System of Systems (SoS) architecture for attack operations, active defense and passive defense. The AMD SoS construct calls for a single BMC4I architecture that enables any joint AMD Sensor and any joint AMD Shooter to interact to defeat AMD threats across the full spectrum of operations. AMD SoS will also provide for third dimensional situation awareness/understanding, airspace management, and high-level operational protection throughout the friendly force battlespace. Fielded systems include: the Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control (FAADC2) System; Air and Missile Defense Planning and Control System (AMDPCS); the Sentinel Enhanced Target Range and Classification (ETRAC); the Avenger; the PATRIOT Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3); the Joint Tactical Ground Station (JTAGS); the Tactical Exploitation System (TES); and Grenadier Brat - a blue force tracking tool developed by the Army Space Program Office. Future systems include: Surface-Launched Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile (SLAMRAAM); PATRIOT-Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) CAP (Combined Aggregate Program); Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor (JLENS); AMD Integrated Fire Control; JTAGS Multi-Mission Mobile Processor (M3P); the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) System; and the Forward-based X-Band Radar – Transportable (FBX-T).

Space is a vital element in support of full-spectrum dominance and missile defense. Reliable and secure space-based capabilities are critical enablers that make our warfighters more efficient, more effective and more lethal. Efforts must continue to be made to assure our continued access to space-based products and services while denying our adversaries the same force enhancement benefits.

The potential for a ballistic missile attack on the Nation, and the current cruise missile and short-to-medium range ballistic missile threats to our Nation, deployed forces, friends, and allies has increased dramatically. Therefore the development and deployment of a globally-integrated Missile Defense architecture should continue to be aggressively pursued. Future AMD systems will leverage technology advancements to achieve overmatch against the full spectrum of air and missile threats including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), CMs, Rockets, Artillery and Mortars (RAM), Large Caliber Rockets (LCRs), Air-to-Surface Missiles (ASMs), Short-Range Ballistic Missiles (SRBMs), Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBMs), Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBMs), Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBMs) and submunitions.

WE THEREFORE RESOLVE to urge the Administration and Congress to:

• Continue to fund development of Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) capabilities including the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS), the System-of-Systems engineering and Cruise Missile Defense (CMD) architectural efforts. Resource system and personnel requirements associated with developing, fielding, testing, and operating the ground-based elements of the BMDS and integration capabilities of the Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense (JFCCIMD)
  
  
• Fund the delivery of an Integrated Cruise Missile Defense (CMD) Capability through acceleration of the JLENS Precision Track (PTIR) and Surveillance Radar (SR) to the FY08 timeframe and the synchronization of an Engage on Remote (EOR) capability in Patriot and Surface Launched Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (SLAMRAAM), based on an integrated fire control approach implemented within a common Battle Management Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (BMC4I). Support the Army's participation with the Office of the Secretary of Defense and U.S. Northern Command in the development of an operational concept and operational architecture for Cruise Missile Defense of North America.
  
  
• Support the Implementation of a Joint Composite Track Management Capability with Common Algorithm and Associated Measurement Reports Sharing as identified in CJCSI 6212.01C
  
  
• Fund the Defeat - Rockets, Artillery, Mortars (D-RAM) active defense efforts to provide an intercept capability, to include Directed Energy systems that protects U.S. and coalition forces and other critical assets from attacks by RAM, particularly for areas where the use of conventional counter fires produce unacceptable collateral damage
  
  
• Fund AMD SoS engineering efforts including Integrated Fire Control to support accelerated development and fielding of a joint-interdependent, fully-integrated air and missile defense component-based architecture while ensuring current systems are adequately funded and sustained in the interim
  
  
• Fund the PATRIOT-MEADS CAP including incremental fielding of MEADS end items into U.S. PATRIOT systems until full MEADS capability is available in order to quickly and economically achieve a 360-degree, lighter, more deployable, maneuverable, lethal, network-centric AMD capability
  
  
• Continue funding the recapitalization and modernization of the RTS at Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the HELSTF at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico and Ft. Greeley, Alaska
  
  
• Continue to support the Army's participation in development of innovative solutions to Joint Battle Management and Command and Control challenges, both in missile defense and Space
  
  
• Support the Army's participation in ongoing Joint Experimental activities as well as Joint war-fighting initiatives to develop a Single Integrated Air Picture (SIAP) and Family of Interoperable Operating Pictures (FIOP)
  
  
• Continue to support the Army’s involvement in the development and application of Measurements and Signatures Intelligence / Advanced Geospatial Intelligence technologies in support of Warfighter missions
  
  
• Support the Army's continued development of ground-based space control capabilities as part of a Joint family of systems to ensure freedom of action in Space for the U.S. and its allies, and when directed, to provide the ability to deny an adversary the same freedom of action in Space
  
  
• Fund the continued development of Army Information Operations capabilities
  
  
• Fund Army Science and Technology efforts related to Space, Missile Defense and Computer Network Operations initiatives to counter future threats to the Future Force
  
  
• Fund the development of Computer Network Attack and Computer Network Defense capabilities that will enable our forces to more effectively support information operations
  
  
• Fund the AMD Current and Future Force initiatives which include:
  • AMD System of Systems Engineering and Integration
  • THAAD
  • PATRIOT/MEADS CAP (Combined Aggregate Program)
  • JLENS
  • SLAMRAAM
  • D-RAM
  • JTAGS M3P
  • Sentinel Enhanced Target Range and Classification (ETRAC)
  • AMD Integrated Fire Control
  • Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities
  • Patriot Recapitalization Program
  • Single Integrated Air Picture (SIAP) Initiatives