1. Maritime Theater Missile Defense Forum Information Brief to The American Society of Naval Engineers
4 March 2015
Steven Szilagyi
PEO IWS D4
Deputy Director, Joint IAMD/MTMD Forum

2. A Multi-National Effort
MTMD Forum is a maritime multi-national effort focused on:
Maritime Integrated Air and Missile Defense
Providing recommendations to improve operational interoperability across international combat systems
Shared development of Capabilities and Limitations for effective coalition war fighting
Shared development of International Interoperability Standards
Forum is identifying specific areas for improving Maritime Integrated Air and Missile Defense interoperability
Leveraging existing and planned multi-national engineering efforts and events
Sharing appropriate lessons learned on Allied interoperability with NATO
Providing an interoperable pathway to effectively integrate partner nation capabilities to improve Maritime Integrated Air and Missile Defense mission performance. 2 2

3. DE ZEVEN PROVINCIËN Class
Background
Australia – HOBART Class
United Kingdom - DARING Class
Germany – SACHSEN Class
Vision:
A distributed net centric architecture as an enabling foundation for multinational interoperability.
Italy – ORIZZONTE Class
Netherlands -
DE ZEVEN PROVINCIËN Class
France – HORIZON Class
Spain - ALVARO DE BAZAN Class
Canada - HALIFAX Class
United States - DDG51 Class
Forum established June 2004 under the Maritime Missile Defense (MMD) Framework Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a focus on Maritime Missile Defense Interoperability
DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A: Approved For Public Release. 3 3 3

4. MTMD Technical Approach
Establish operational concepts
Develop architectures and interface standards
Demonstrate functionality through Modeling & Simulation, Hardware- in-the Loop/ Land-based testing and at-sea events
Technology concepts
Existing/planned operational systems
Potential gap-filler solutions
Operational concepts including tactics, techniques and procedures
Apply lessons learned to national programs
CDEP – Coalition Distributed Engineering Plant
M&S – Modeling and Simulation
CONOPS – Operational Concept Document
Engineer interoperable capabilities into current systems and design interoperability into future systems 4

5. Long Range Detect & Track Task Unit Long Range Detect & Track Ship
ASD 2015 IAMD Scenario
Example Multinational
Scenario
Link #1
Link #2
Ballistic Target
To Test Labs
Long Range Detect & Track Task Unit
CAN HALIFAX
GBR TYPE-45
USA AAW DDG
Air Targets
Launch Area
USA BMD DDG
ITA ORIZZONTE
NLD ADCF
FRA FREMM
Not to scale
BMD Task Unit
Long Range Detect & Track Ship

6. Take-Aways
Partnerships matter as they are necessary to maintain maritime security
Systems-of-Systems Engineering is essential to creating a multinational interoperable Force
Land-based and at-sea demonstrations can prove out existing capabilities, identify gaps, and supports refinement of tactics, techniques and procedures
Collaboration with other organizations (i.e. NATO) leverages national programs, offers a multiplying effect and reduces the potential for duplication of effort