A battle management system for comprehensive ballistic missile defense must perform with near perfection and extraordinarily reliability. It will be complex to an unprecedented degree, untestable in a realistic environment, and provide minimal time for human intervention. The feasibility of designing and developing such a system (requiring upwards of ten million lines of code) is examined in li...

The Ballistic Mis sile Defense System (BMDS) is a phased arrangement of equipment that is designed to engage a limited number of ballistic missiles launched against the United States and her allies. A phased system is one that changes its characteristics over time. Although a system does not modify its characteristics within a phase, when the system departs one phase and enters another, the sys...

2 INTRODUCTION The guided missile provides military forces with the capability to deliver munitions rapidly and precisely to selected targets at a distance. This capability establishes an effective means to conduct a wide variety of military missions that range from denying the enemy communications or supply routes, to establishing air superiority, to performing anti-ship cruise missile or ball...