The effects of any budget/program decisions made since the information was collected during 1997-98 are NOT reflected in the National Security Space Road Map (NSSRM).

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(U) Advanced Electro-Optical Warning Sensor (AEOWS)

Description (U):

(U) The AEOWS consists of a visible scanning sensor and a medium-wave infrared (MWIR) staring sensor.

(U) The visible Sensor builds upon the SBIRS LOW design, and will detect theater ballistic missiles (TBMs) during their boost phase, through clouds, using a sodium and/or potassium Fraunhofer-wavelength atomic resonance filter (ARF) for sunlight suppression. The MWIR staring sensor will detect slow moving cruise missile (CM) type targets using advanced sensors technology to achieve higher sensitivity and advanced signal processing algorithms to eliminate earth background noise. Both sensors can be implemented as an integrated sensor suite on the same platform or as separate sensor suites on different platforms. There is also a strong possibility that one or both of these advanced sensors could be a pre-planned product improvement (P3I) to the SBIRS LOW satellite. Also, the MWIR staring sensor can be implemented as an adjunct sensor with space based radar to solve nadir hole problems and provide a second phenomenology.

(U) The recommended candidate constellation for implementing theAEOWS is SBIRS LOW because it provides a continuous world-wide access capability. Implementing the AEOWS concept on SBIRS LOW requires the addition of a visible focal plane and an atomic resonance filter (ARF) into the existing SWIR scanning sensor.

User Impact (U):

(U) To be supplied.

Programmatics (U):

(U) Operational/Programmable.

• (U) FOC: 10/2009 (1QFY2010).

• (U) Air Force.

Images (U):

(U) None.

Related Initiatives (U):

This Table Is Unclassified.

Name	Title
SBIRS High	Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) High
SBIRS High NUDET Package	Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) High Nuclear Exo-atmospheric Detonation (NUDET) PACKAGE

Related Requirements (U): None.

Related Categories (U):

This Table Is Unclassified.

Name	Title
Space-Based Warning	Space-Based Warning Systems

Road Map Placements (U):

This Table Is Unclassified.

Name	Title
National Security Space Road Map	Integrated System Road Map
SURVEILLANCE AND WARNING	SPACE FORCE ENHANCEMENT: SURVEILLANCE AND WARNING

Requirements, Funding and Additional Hotlinks (U):

(U) None.

Lead Office (U):

Air Force.

Point of Contact (U):

(U) Maj Tracey Kaber, Open Phone: (310) 363-6084, DSN 833-6084.

Date Of Information (U):

(U) 29 June 1998

(U) Road Map Production Date: 23 June 2001