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Gen. Heath Collins, MDA director, said in the statement. \u201cCollectively, we will use this to build upon and validate joint tracking architecture and integrated air and missile defense capabilities for Guam.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The test data will feed into continued concept development, requirements validation and modeling for the future Guam Defense System, or GDS, the statement adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GDS will be built using a variety of components from the services. The U.S. Army was assigned in 2023 to lead the acquisition and execution plan for the Guam architecture, and the service\u2019s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office lead \u2013 a three-star general \u2013 was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/global-force-symposium\/2024\/04\/01\/army-office-in-charge-of-rapid-development-takes-on-guam-air-defense\/\" target=\"_blank\"> appointed to stand up a joint team<\/a> for seeing it through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MDA\u2019s role now is focused primarily on developing the means to tie all the systems together that will be part of the GDS architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agency is establishing a combined command center on the island that will host all of the \u201cmajor command and control systems in the missile defense business,\u201d Collins said in an interview with Defense News this summer. Component include the Army\u2019s Integrated Battle Command System, the Navy\u2019s Aegis weapon system and the Aegis ground system being built for Guam, the Air Force\u2019s C2 system and the agency\u2019s Command Control Battle Management and Communications system, known as C2BMC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe next big efforts for the defense of Guam will need to encompass the simultaneous engagement of all manner of air and missile threats, and figure out a method of battle management that can do all of that in the most efficient and effective way possible,\u201d Tom Karako, a missile defense expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Defense News. \u201cThe threat has voted and that need is undeniable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The architecture also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/defending-the-pacific\/2023\/03\/17\/first-wave-of-tech-to-defend-guam-from-newer-threats-due-in-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\">relies on a variety of systems still in development,<\/a> mostly within the Army. The Navy will provide technology and capability from its Aegis weapon system. The land service plans to bring currently fielded capability like the Patriot system and its IBCS that connects any sensor and shooter together on the battlefield, as well as Mid-Range Capability missile launchers, which were first fielded at the end of last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army will also incorporate Patriot\u2019s radar replacement, the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, and its Indirect Fire Protection Capability launchers currently in prototype testing and evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the test represents a step forward, over the next year or so, the island \u201cwill look like it pretty much looks today,\u201d Collins told Defense News. \u201cOur<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2024\/07\/31\/guam-missile-defense-office-awaits-funds-to-build-layered-architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\"> first construction money to start <\/a>building on the island is \u201825 so we will, by the end of 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