National Air Defense: Challenges, Solution Profiles, and Technology Needs

Past and current air defence systems have performed well in conflict, but with less than the desired reliability in peacetime. Future systems will be challenged by a more stressing problem: defence vs. unconventional threats in "peacetime". An air defence modernization strategy built to buy-down near-term risks and invest in technologies intended to permit cost-sensitive designs for next-generation systems are key to an economical approach to the challenge.