Cover -- Front Matter -- Preface -- Acknowledgment of Reviewers -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction and Background -- 2 Present and Projected Theater Missile Threats -- 3 Assessment of the Current State of Technologies Involved in Naval Theater Missile Defense and an Evaluation of Current and Projected Department of the Navy Programs Designed to Meet the Evolving Threat -- 4 Assessment of Current and Projected Department of the Navy, Other Service, and Defense Agency R&D Programs -- 5 Conclusions and Recommendations -- Appendixes -- A Acronyms and Abbreviations -- B Analysis of the Capabilities and Limitations of Link 16 -- C Obtaining More Flexible BMC3 Configurations -- D Abbreviated Description of U.S. Navy Short-Range Missile Defense Weapon Systems -- E Biographies of Committee Members -- F Agendas for Meetings of the Committee for Naval Forces' Capability for Theater Missile Defense.