Defending Forward-Deployed
U.S. Navy Platforms from Potential
Enemy Missile and Rocket Attacks
Abbreviated Version of a Classified Report
Committee on Defending Forward-Deployed U.S. Navy Platforms from
Potential Enemy Missile and Rocket Attacks
Naval Studies Board
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
A Consensus Study Report of
THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS
Washington, DC
www.nap.edu
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COMMITTEE ON DEFENDING FORWARD-DEPLOYED U.S. NAVY PLATFORMS FROM POTENTIAL ENEMY MISSILE AND ROCKET ATTACKS
RONALD R. LUMAN, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Co-Chair
PAUL A. SCHNEIDER, Annapolis, Maryland, Co-Chair
MELVIN L. BELCHER, JR., Georgia Tech Research Institute
MELVIN H. EISMAN, RAND Corporation
VISHAL GIARE, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory
TAMARA E. JERNIGAN, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
ANNETTE J. KRYGIEL, Great Falls, Virginia
KATHERINE MCGRADY, Center for Naval Analyses
ARTHUR L. MONEY, NAE,* Alexandria, Virginia
J. PAUL REASON, ADM, USN (retired), Washington, D.C.
KATHERINE A. RINK, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory
ALLAN STEINHARDT, AEye, Inc.
Staff
CHARLES F. DRAPER, Director, Naval Studies Board
CHERIE CHAUVIN, Senior Program Officer and Study Director
RAYMOND S. WIDMAYER, Senior Program Officer
SUSAN G. CAMPBELL, Administrative Coordinator (through September 29, 2017)
MARY G. GORDON, Information Officer (through September 29, 2017)
MARTA V. HERNANDEZ, Associate Program Officer
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* Member, National Academy of Engineering.
NAVAL STUDIES BOARD
PAUL A. SCHNEIDER, Annapolis, Maryland, Chair (though October 20, 2017)
JAMES G. BELLINGHAM, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
JACOPO BUONGIORNO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
GREGORY K. CRAWFORD, The MITRE Corporation
STEPHEN M. CARMEL, Maersk Line, Ltd.
THOMAS D. DONNELLAN, Pennsylvania State University, Applied Research Laboratory
JAMES N. EAGLE, Naval Postgraduate School
J. GARY EDEN, NAE,* University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
GEORGE J. FLYNN, LtGen, USMC (Retired), Alexandria, Virginia
NAOMI J. HALAS, NAS†/NAE, Rice University
TAMARA E. JERNIGAN, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
BERNADETTE JOHNSON, Defense Innovation Unit Experimental
KENNETH W. KIZER, NAM,‡ University of California, Davis
RONALD R. LUMAN, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory
MARK A. MITCHELL, Georgia Research Tech Institute
ARTHUR L. MONEY, NAE, Alexandria, Virginia
JOSE M.F. MOURA, NAE, Carnegie Mellon University
RICHARD S. MULLER, NAE, University of California, Berkeley
ROBERT J. NIEWOEHNER, U.S. Naval Academy
DAVID P. PEKOSKE, VADM, USCG (Retired), Potomac, Maryland (through August 8, 2017)
J. PAUL REASON, ADM, USN (Retired), Washington, D.C.
GABRIEL M. REBEIZ, NAE, University of California, San Diego
JOHN A. ROGERS, NAS/NAE, Northwestern University
FRED B. SCHNEIDER, NAE, Cornell University
ALLAN STEINHARDT, AEye, Inc.
RICK D. WEST, MCPON, USN (Retired), Progeny Systems Corporation-Bremerton
Navy Liaison
RADM JESSE A. WILSON, JR., USN, Director, Assessment Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, N81 (through July 13, 2017)
Staff
CHARLES F. DRAPER, Director
CHERIE CHAUVIN, Senior Program Officer
RAYMOND S. WIDMAYER, Senior Program Officer
SUSAN G. CAMPBELL, Administrative Coordinator (through September 29, 2017)
MARY G. GORDON, Information Officer (through September 29, 2017)
MARTA V. HERNANDEZ, Associate Program Officer
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* Member, National Academy of Engineering.
† Member, National Academy of Sciences.
‡ Member, National Academy of Medicine.
