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MISSION The Multiple Kill Vehicle (MKV) mission is to negate me-dium and intercontinental-range ballistic missiles equipped with multiple warheads and/or countermeasures (threat clusters) in midcourse attack phase with a single engaging interceptor missile. The MKV payload intercepts the threat clusters with kill vehicles launched from this single engag-ing interceptor missile. The objective is to provide MKV capability to all midcourse interceptor elements, such as Ground-Based Interceptors, Standard Missile-3 intercep- tors and Kinetic Energy Interceptors. Using data from existing and planned ground-based, sea-based, air, and space-based sensors, the BMDS interceptors equipped with MKV payloads are capable of attacking and negating the potentially large number of inbound warheads in multiple threat clusters. MKV does not require the Ballistic Missile Defense System to pinpoint a single lethal object within a threat cluster. Instead of pairing one kill vehicle with one interceptor missile, the Multiple Kill Vehicle payloads allow a single interceptor missile to deliver several kill vehicles that can attack multiple threat objects within the BMDS designated cluster. Therefore, the MKV capability dramati-cally alters the battle space in favor of the United States, its allies, and friends. Multiple kill Vehicle PrOGrAM DESCrIPTION The MKV program is MDA’s transformational kill vehicle development program. MDA’s strategy is to manage all future kill vehicle development under a single program ele-ment by employing parallel path acquisition of alternative multiple kill vehicle configurations. This strategy allows the Agency to evaluate viable designs and maximize opportuni- ties to incorporate common, modular components. The MKV program includes kill vehicle payload develop- ment, integration, test, demonstration, and deployment throughout the BMDS by 2017. The MKV test program will progress from modeling and simulation, to hardware- in-the-loop testing, to payload hover and flight testing, and finally system-level flight tests in the Pacific test ranges. CONTrIBUTIONS TO THE BMDS Multiple kill vehicle capability is an integral component of a broad Ballistic Missile Defense System strategy for defeat- ing our adversaries. In this strategy, the multiple kill vehicle payload will receive the best available targeting data in flight through the Ballistic Missile Defense System Command, Control, Battle Management and Communication system to attack and destroy a large number of objects in the threat cluster. This strategy reduces the number of interceptors required to engage all potential threat objects. 2007 ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Began BMDS level system trade studies to establish payload requirements for integration across multiple midcourse elements • Developed a Joint Systems Engineering Management Plan to integrate the MKV payload into the BMDS midcourse elements. • Performed Multiple Kill Vehicle payload system trade studies to establish and balance carrier vehicle and kill vehicle performance parameters • Developed all digital simulation and hardware-in-the- loop test-bed development to demonstrate key target identification and engagement management capabilities • Developed medium fidelity digital simulation • Conducted divert and attitude control system static hot fire test Majority of work for Multiple kill Vehicle is performed in the green colored states.