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payloads to provide a prompt global strike capability and, where appropriate, consider and recommend alternatives that meet the prompt global strike mission in the near-, mid-, and long-term. The study requested analyses of the military, political, and international issues associated with each alternative and asked that the committee consider technology options for achieving desired objectives as well as mitigating policy concerns.
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, the DOD has assessed potential conventional prompt global strike options, including sea- and land-based ballistic missiles and advanced technologies such as hypersonic glide vehicles. The QDR called for deployment, within 2 years, of an "initial capability to deliver precision-guided conventional warheads using long-range Trident SubmarineLaunched Ballistic Missiles [SLBMs]
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A strike at distant, time-critical targets as the leading edge of major combat operations. These two purposes are quite different in their operational requirements and also in how the political environment affects the decision to use specific types of weapon delivery, especially ballistic missiles.
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Inventory requirements for a CPGS weapon would depend on the range of the weapon, the number of warheads needed to accomplish a militarily effective strike, and the concomitant basing plan required to achieve prompt global coverage. The committee suspects that very limited strikes using a CPGS weapon in, say, the first decade after its fielding would likely number at most a few dozen.
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This might be especially true for a CPGS weapon delivered by a ballistic missile. CTM in Relation to a CPGS Capability The committee has concluded that the CPGS option represented by the CTM is best assessed in terms of a very limited strike rather than as the leading edge of something larger.
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In 3 years or so, however, the United States could have a new, and truly global, CPGS capability based on conversion of the Trident II (D5) missile carried aboard nuclear ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs)
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Longer-term Options Finding 3: Longer-term CPGS options offer potentially attractive capabilities but in some cases appear to involve high technical risk. The committee has not yet had adequate opportunity to compare longer-term options for a CPGS capability, but its initial impression is that the Sea-Launched Global Strike Missile (SLGSM)
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While it is not the optimal solution for the longer term, CTM offers the only viable truly global CPGS capability within the next 6 years, and it can be achieved, with military mission capabilities still to be quantified, at a relatively modest initial and life-cycle cost because of the minimal changes required in most components of the delivery system and its infrastructure. The ability of the Navy's SSP to respond to USSTRATCOM (and DOD more broadly)
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Sincerely, Albert Carnesale, Chair Committee on Conventional Prompt Global Strike Capability 9
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Enclosures: A Statement of Task B Committee on Conventional Prompt Global Strike Capability (as of May 2007) C Acknowledgment of Reviewers D Summary of Data-Gathering Sessions cc: Sidney Ashworth, Clerk, Subcommittee on Defense, Senate Committee on Appropriations Charlie Huoy, Clerk, Subcommittee on Defense, Senate Committee on Appropriations 10
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This 15-month study will produce two reports: (1) a letter report following the second full committee meeting that summarizes the requirements and supporting enablers for a conventional prompt global strike capability and recommends a near-term option or options to provide this capability; and (2)
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James Woolsey, Jr., Booz Allen Hamilton Staff Charles Draper, Director, Naval Studies Board, Study Director Ian Cameron, Associate Program Officer, Naval Studies Board 12
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Enclosure C Acknowledgment of Reviewers This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council's Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge.
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• February 22-23, 2007, in Washington, D.C. First full committee meeting: Briefings on policy, requirements, supporting enablers, and technology plans for conventional prompt global strike from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; U.S.
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