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The Pentagon is requesting an additional $307 million in fiscal year 2018 for several classified Strategic Capabilities Office programs under an emergency appropriation focused on "missile defeat and defense enhancement," according to budget documents.
The request is part of the Trump administration's overall $6 billion FY-18 budget amendment, which includes $4 billion for missile defense, $700 million for Navy ship repair and $1.2 billion to finance the U.S. troop buildup in Afghanistan.
The SCO, a once-secretive organization established in 2012 to leverage existing weapons and commercial technology into new, innovative military capabilities, would put the additional $307 million toward four classified programs: Sea Dragon, Third Eye, Hurt Locker and Hoover, according to Defense Department budget justification documents.
Details on Sea Dragon, which would receive $194.5 million under the request, are scarce, but DOD's initial FY-18 budget submission states it is a “cost-effective, disruptive offensive capability” that will be "demonstrated by integrating an existing weapon system with an existing Navy platform."
The Pentagon also reprogrammed $33.3 million in FY-17 funds toward the Sea Dragon, the justification documents state.
The initial FY-18 request for Sea Dragon was $163 million to "complete construction of launch support test site; commence underwater static testing; continue planning for in-water testing; continue kill chain analysis within platform communications and fire control system architectures," according to budget documents.
In September 2016, the Navy awarded a $105.5 million contract modification to General Dynamics Electric Boat to begin the second phase of Sea Dragon.
The budget amendment also requests $10 million for Third Eye, which previous budget documents state is a "data architecture that leverages existing and emerging sensors to provide real-time tracking and targeting for multi-service weapon systems."
The Pentagon's initial FY-18 request for Third Eye was $24.5 million to "deploy limited operational capability."
The budget amendment also requests $56.2 million for SCO's Hurt Locker program and $46 million for Hoover. Details on the programs were unable to be found in previous budget submissions.
The initial FY-18 total request for SCO was $1.1 billion. Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who created the organization when he was deputy defense secretary in 2012, said in a February 2016 speech that the SCO would begin a new innovative era of warfare.
"SCO is incredibly innovative, but it also has the rare virtue of rapid development, and a rarer virtue of keeping current capabilities viable for as long as possible -- in other words, it tries to build on what we have," he said at the time. "The emphasis here was on rapidity of fielding, not 10- and 15-year programs."
https://insidedefense.com/daily-news/pentagon-seeks-307m-plus-secretive-sco-missile-defeat-programs
The request is part of the Trump administration's overall $6 billion FY-18 budget amendment, which includes $4 billion for missile defense, $700 million for Navy ship repair and $1.2 billion to finance the U.S. troop buildup in Afghanistan.
The SCO, a once-secretive organization established in 2012 to leverage existing weapons and commercial technology into new, innovative military capabilities, would put the additional $307 million toward four classified programs: Sea Dragon, Third Eye, Hurt Locker and Hoover, according to Defense Department budget justification documents.
Details on Sea Dragon, which would receive $194.5 million under the request, are scarce, but DOD's initial FY-18 budget submission states it is a “cost-effective, disruptive offensive capability” that will be "demonstrated by integrating an existing weapon system with an existing Navy platform."
The Pentagon also reprogrammed $33.3 million in FY-17 funds toward the Sea Dragon, the justification documents state.
The initial FY-18 request for Sea Dragon was $163 million to "complete construction of launch support test site; commence underwater static testing; continue planning for in-water testing; continue kill chain analysis within platform communications and fire control system architectures," according to budget documents.
In September 2016, the Navy awarded a $105.5 million contract modification to General Dynamics Electric Boat to begin the second phase of Sea Dragon.
The budget amendment also requests $10 million for Third Eye, which previous budget documents state is a "data architecture that leverages existing and emerging sensors to provide real-time tracking and targeting for multi-service weapon systems."
The Pentagon's initial FY-18 request for Third Eye was $24.5 million to "deploy limited operational capability."
The budget amendment also requests $56.2 million for SCO's Hurt Locker program and $46 million for Hoover. Details on the programs were unable to be found in previous budget submissions.
The initial FY-18 total request for SCO was $1.1 billion. Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who created the organization when he was deputy defense secretary in 2012, said in a February 2016 speech that the SCO would begin a new innovative era of warfare.
"SCO is incredibly innovative, but it also has the rare virtue of rapid development, and a rarer virtue of keeping current capabilities viable for as long as possible -- in other words, it tries to build on what we have," he said at the time. "The emphasis here was on rapidity of fielding, not 10- and 15-year programs."
https://insidedefense.com/daily-news/pentagon-seeks-307m-plus-secretive-sco-missile-defeat-programs
