Advanced Concepts and Performance Assessment

Abstract

The Advanced Concepts & Performance Assessments PE delivers an integrated government concept definition, simulation, and analysis capability and centralizes assessment of advanced ballistic missile defense technology. Delivering insight into the performance of proposed concepts extends MDA's ability to address evolving threats for the warfighter. Subject matter experts provide independent assessments of government, university, and industry technology concepts, used in concert with systems engineering requirements to support acquisition strategy decisions and define technology focus areas. The innovative structured concept definition and assessment methodology enables the MDA to quickly validate focus areas, verify contractor technology solutions, and evaluate promising concepts in future Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) architectures. This methodology significantly enhances MDA's ability to assess technology concepts while decreasing the cost of development through: - Independent model-based simulations of industry technology concepts to inform the systems engineering process - Digital simulation and hardware-in-the-loop performance assessments of algorithms and hardware concepts prior to expensive live fire test events - End-to-end testing of technology concepts integrated with weapon systems and Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications Performance assessment of advanced concepts incorporates Better Buying Power philosophy in the earliest stages of technology development to maximize technology investments with minimal investment. Performance assessment supports evaluation and analysis of capabilities for both right and left of launch.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2018
• Source ID: 0603176C_3_0400_PB_2018
• Change Summary Explanation: N/A
• Service Agency Name: Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber
• Human Systems
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Authentication
• Ballistic Missiles
• Commerce
• Cybersecurity
• Department Of Defense
• Directed Energy Weapons
• Engineering
• High Performance Computing
• Information Assurance
• Information Systems
• Kill Vehicles
• Risk
• Risk Analysis
• Small Business
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Missile Defense Systems.
• Software Engineering.