Low Cost Cruise Missile Defense (LCCMD)

The LCCMD program will design, develop, demonstrate and transition an affordable electronically scanned array (ESA) seeker for use on a missile interceptor system to defeat unsophisticated air vehicles. Unsophisticated air vehicles are affordable, can be procured in large numbers to overwhelm U.S. defenses and provide a credible long-term threat to both civilian population centers and military targets. To reduce the cost of defending against such threats, it is crucial to reduce the cost of the guidance and control sections of defensive weapons. The LCCMD program will enable this through analyses, laboratory testing and field-testing of an all-weather seeker costing less than forty thousand dollars in production. The program is demonstrating an active ESA using low cost single-chip transmit/receive modules.