Advanced Concepts and Performance Assessment

Abstract

The Advanced Concepts & Performance Assessments PE delivers an integrated government concept definition, simulation, and analysis capability. It also 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 the efficiency of technology investments. Performance assessment supports evaluation and analysis of capabilities across right and left of launch.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2019
Source ID
0603176C_3_0400_PB_2019
Change Summary Explanation
N/A
Service Agency Name
Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Authentication
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Commerce
  • Cybersecurity
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Information Assurance
  • Information Systems
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Management
  • Security
  • Small Business
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

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

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