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Intercontinental ballistic missiles—armed with nuclear weapons—could fly from North Korea to the United States in just 33 minutes. If it made it to America, entire cities and communities would be destroyed in seconds and countless lives would be lost.
Preventing these weapons that move at 17,000 mph from making contact—in roughly a half hour—is a defining challenge of our era. As the world experiences more conflict than at any time since World War II, America needs a Golden Dome missile defense system capable of reliably blocking ballistic missile threats.
ĢƵ Allen’s Brilliant SwarmsTM will be a vital aspect of the Golden Dome. Using artificial intelligence (AI) and a peer-to-peer network of small, advanced satellites, Brilliant Swarms identifies threats quickly and destroys them. It can respond faster than current systems and, in some cases, prevent missiles from ever releasing their warheads.
America’s current missile defense system, which depends on various ground-based radars and interceptors, is not fully capable of defending us from our adversaries’ more advanced threats. It can only handle small, limited attacks from countries like North Korea or Iran.
Brilliant Swarms by tracking and engaging ballistic missiles during the boost/ascent and midcourse phases, on a larger and more capable scale than the current systems.
With Brilliant Swarms, as soon as a missile is launched and a cue is received, every satellite in the constellation of more than 1,000 knows the launch has occurred. From there, the satellites begin coordinating a counterattack, and those satellites in the best position to intercept the missile swarm and maneuver to become hit-to-kill vehicles to defeat the threat.
Critically, the Brilliant Swarms constellation can be scaled up or down. Estimates suggest the entire system could be deployed at a much lower cost than the current system.
With global instability becoming a hallmark of this era, America needs a missile defense system built for the 21st century.
Our adversaries are certainly preparing for the future, and we must too.
“Brilliant Swarms would have the ability to take out a significant portion of the expected launches from Russia and China, to the point where it would give them a pause in their attack plans,” says Trey Obering, former director of the Missile Defense Agency and a senior executive advisor at ĢƵ Allen.
