Ballistic Missile Defense Enabling Programs

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The mission of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) continues to be to defend the United States, our deployed forces, allies, and friends against all ranges of enemy ballistic missiles in all phases of flight, with greater emphasis on defense of U.S. forces, allies, and friends from regional threats posed by short- and medium-range ballistic missiles. The Phased Adaptive Approach (PAA) was developed in response to the rapid proliferation of short and medium range ballistic missiles in Iran and the threat they pose to United States Allies and partners, as well as to United States deployed personnel and their accompanying families in the Middle East and in Europe. By leveraging recent advances in sensor and interceptor technologies, the United States will aggressively counter this growing regional threat with a more powerful and agile system. The United States is pursuing a four phased approach which will provide a more effective missile defense capability for defense of NATO territories and enhance United States homeland defense, it will be complementary of and interoperable with those being developed by NATO, be applicable in other theaters around the world, and will be more adaptable and flexible in order to counter threat advances and provide increased defended areas over time. The initial phase includes the deployment of current and proven missile defense, including the sea-based Aegis Weapons System, the SM-3 interceptor (Block IA), and sensors such as the forward-based Army Navy/Transportable Radar Surveillance system (AN/TPY-2). Subsequent phases will be implemented based on technical maturity, appropriate testing, and threat driven requirements. The Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System Enabling Programs provide the Missile Defense Agency with the critical processes needed to integrate stand-alone missile defense systems into a layered BMDS to achieve cost- and operational-efficiencies, while improving protection performance with increased defended area and minimizing force structure costs. The Enabling Programs, embedded within a single program element, bring common program management and engineering functions up to the MDA level, saving manpower and cost and ensuring commonality in key areas. As an example, BMDS level System Engineering and Integration ensures that the BMD System level performance trades can occur across the legacy Service systems and new BMDS and Service Components ensuring capability improvements through BMDS level integration of the Unifying Missile Defense Functions (UMDF). These programs enable the BMD system to operate in an integrated, secure, and technologically collaborative capacity, in terms of both equipment and proficiency. Specifically, the Enabling Programs evaluate the methodology, threat, manufacturing maturity, technical safeguards, and mission assurance effectiveness independently, but also simultaneously assess whether the BMD System is able to maintain its integrity and superiority with advances in technology development, and function as an integrated system. The MDA Enabling Programs are: Systems Engineering and Integration Modeling and Simulation Engineering Producibility and Manufacturing Technology Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance Intelligence and Security Information Management Systems Systems Engineering and Integration leads the integration of BMDS Element and Component capabilities to provide the Warfighter with the capability to defend the United States and its friends and allies from ballistic missile attacks. Systems Engineering develops integrated BMDS capability improvements such as early intercept through BMDS level control of system requirements and allocating those requirements to the Element and Component levels. As adversaries become increasingly sophisticated in their use of countermeasures, the Systems Engineering role includes designing integrated discrimination capabilities to optimize system performance against the evolving threat. Similarly, as missile defense technologies continually advance and the threat changes, Modeling and Simulation evaluates the BMDS Components` accuracy, efficiency and overall system performance. Producibility and Manufacturing provides crosscutting assessments to ensure the production equipment and processes being used for the BMD System are technologically mature, while applying common approaches and best value engineering principals across the BMDS. Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance has the distinct cradle-to-grave role of providing the safety requirements throughout design, manufacturing and test processes as well as during system operation to achieve a safe and reliable BMD System. Intelligence and Security provides the adversary data necessary for the development of the BMDS common threat. Accurate and timely threat data is necessary to enable technologically advanced system solutions and system performance predictions. Security is also provided as an Enabling Program to apply the same level of system capability protection across the entire BMDS. Information management is vital to the efficient operation and safeguarding of all information from development to fielding new BMDS capabilities. (YX24 & MD24) SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND INTEGRATION (SE&I) The Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) mission is to define, manage, and integrate all engineering development for the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). SE&I activities provide the technical expertise, tools, and facilities to develop an integrated, layered BMDS in a five-phased approach: 1) Systems engineering planning/concept development; 2) design and specification; 3) horizontal integration of software and hardware; 4) test integration, verification and model validation; and 5) operational assessments to support fielding. SE&I provides top-down, overall architectural direction through collaborative system engineering processes to ensure the BMDS functions are integrated in a cost and operationally efficient manner. SE&I includes the Countermeasures/Counter-Countermeasures (CM/CCM) program which develops feasible engineering concepts and designs to avert BMDS performance degradation when an adversary deploys system countermeasures. SE&I also includes Engineering and Manufacturing Readiness Level (EMRL) assessment to ensure missile defense technologies are ready for production and anti-tamper efforts to ensure BMDS assets are suitable for international fielding, whether for US defense, or for defense of Allies and Friends. Together with Modeling and Simulation and Test and Evaluation, SE&I focuses on defining test objectives and executing test campaigns aimed at anchoring BMDS-level models and simulation with critical data to prove Ballistic Missile Defense performance. Systems Engineering and Integration Program Budget Justification and Contribution to the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS): Systems Engineering and Integration processes, expertise, tools and facilities are required to achieve an integrated BMDS and develop the warfighters` capability, both in equipment and operations. The Systems Engineering process is highly collaborative, using close cooperation with weapons, sensors, command and control, battle management and communications elements and components. This ensures the unity of effort in the development of subsystems and architecture designs to deliver system-level capabilities. The Combatant Commanders are involved in all phases of the Systems Engineering and Integration process, providing input to influence design and develop components to improve reliability, operational availability, maintainability and life-cycle affordability. Systems Engineering products optimize system-level performance and ensure that system assessments are based on a rigorous test and verification program that builds confidence among our stakeholders in the assessed capabilities. SE&I Major Program Goals: Engineer the integrated and layered BMD System and prove Ballistic Missile Defense performance Verify and Assess through testing the BMD System performance and capabilities Perform analysis of alternatives Create future BMD System Architectural options Identify manufacturing risks using Engineering and Manufacturing Readiness Level (EMRL) assessments to analyze the maturity of BMDS (YX31 & MD31) MODELING AND SIMULATION ENGINEERING (M&S) The mission of the Modeling and Simulation (M&S) program is to engineer and deliver validated, integrated simulation solutions for the primary uses of Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Performance Assessment and Ground Test, with additional capability to support BMDS-Element integration, missile defense wargames and exercises (national and international), BMDS training, and BMDS concept analysis. In this role, M&S provides cost-effective and proactive tools to assess the fielded capabilities of the BMDS, analyzes and fosters accelerated integration of Element and component capability into the BMDS, and is a valuable training and planning tool for warfighting Concept of Operations and missile defense planning. This is in line with the MDA`s BMDS performance assessment strategy, which is to develop models and simulations of the BMDS and compare their predictions to empirical data collected through comprehensive flight and ground testing to validate their accuracy, rather than physically testing all possible combinations of BMDS configurations, engagement conditions, and target phenomena. Modeling and Simulation (M&S) activities support all phases of BMDS element and component development, including development of modifications to the element and component programs` subsystem designs, flight test missions, ground tests, wargames, exercises, and performance assessments. Models and simulations are tailored to the specific needs of a component in its current phase of development, ranging from low-to-medium fidelity analyses supporting concept definitions studies, to high-fidelity models used to support engineering development or testing, and are integrated into the BMD Digital Simulations Architecture. Digital simulations support Program Assessment events, which provide critical system level performance data to all elements, the System Engineer, M&S developers, OTA and Warfighter. Further, the M&S Digital tools are accredited for each application and for specific objectives; tools are put through a rigorous Verification and Validation (V&V) process, including reviewing coding and specifications, and comparing analyses against actual flight test results. Planning support is required to assist in V&V plan development, test execution, analysis for V&V reports and program office M&S certification. The Digital End-to-End simulation of the BMDS requires a Performance Assessment Integrated V&V Plan and Report (at both element and system level), and a Performance Assessment system level Accreditation Plan and Report. Modeling and Simulation Program Budget Justification and Contribution to the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS): Modeling and Simulation`s distinct capabilities are spread throughout the BMDS elements and provide the Warfighter with a range of assessment capabilities at the system and Element level. Accredited system-level models and simulations anchored to real-world events provide an accurate and comprehensive assessment of the BMDS. In addition, by anchoring these models and simulations with empirical flight and ground test data collected in accordance with test objectives defined by SE&I, Modeling and Simulation can provide the confidence that the BMDS will perform as predicted, without physically testing every possible condition that could occur. Future developments will focus on the model and simulation framework, BMDS element models and threat and environmental models to support anchoring. This approach ensures that the BMDS has the effectiveness and efficiency to meet the Warfighter`s needs. Modeling and Simulation Program Major Program Goals: Reduce integration lead times, mitigate schedule risk and enable higher tempo of Performance Assessment, Test and Fielding Events through rigorous M&S Requirements Engineering continue product line development, sustainment, maintenance and product support for: Extended Air Defense Simulation (EADSIM) Missile Defense Space warning Tool (models validated space-borne assets of BMDS) Threat Modeling Simulation System BMD International Simulation (YX29 & MD29) PRODUCIBILITY AND MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY The Producibility and Manufacturing Directorate`s ultimate goal is to help develop an effective and affordable missile defense system. To achieve this goal, Producibility and Manufacturing is helping to build and maintain a strong missile defense industrial base. Producibility and manufacturing conducts numerous industry days dedicated to small business companies to explain where value-added work opportunities exist across the BMDS. The Producibility and Manufacturing Directorate improves the design, integration, and assembly of the components used by the Ballistic Missile Defense Elements through producibility efforts that include, Design For Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA), supply chain gap analysis, and changes to environmental laws and regulations. Producibility and Manufacturing conducts Industrial Capability Assessments (ICAs) across the BMDS Industrial Base in order to identify production gaps created by material supplier changes, loss of manufacturing base, and movement of United States production overseas. From these assessments, we will develop a gap analysis which focuses on methods that can be used to support our United States original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), their supplier base, and other organizations that produce end items for the BMDS. This project funds a number of key investment areas: 1) Power Systems, 2) Radiation Hardening (Rad Hard), 3) Manufacturing Process Improvements, 4) Electro-Optics/Infrared (EO/IR), 5) Radar and RF, 6) Propulsion, and 7) Advanced Materials and Structures. In each of these key investment areas, Producibility and Manufacturing conducts projects that provide key component and subsystem capabilities that ;we will incorporate into the applicable BMDS Element. Producibility and Manufacturing Technology Program Budget Justification and Contribution to the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS): Producibility and Manufacturing provides crosscutting BMDS manufacturing risk assessments, industrial capability assessments, and near term (1-3 year) producibility enhancements. Common, integrated programs across the BMDS Elements are provided to ensure mature industrial manufacturing capabilities are available to the programs through risk reduction, cost reduction/avoidance, and performance enhancement. Producibility and Manufacturing furthers efforts in commonality and spreads best practices for producibility and manufacturing across the BMDS Elements by cooperatively funding and leveraging efforts. Producibility and Manufacturing Technology Program Major Program Goals: Producibility and Manufacturing will help develop an effective and affordable missile defense system by building and maintaining a strong missile defense industrial base. Producibility and Manufacturing plans to demonstrate the producibility and manufacturability of sensor subsystems/components in a flight experiment planned for FY 2010. This flight experiment will involve a maneuverable sensor with a radiation tolerant telescope, and a next generation Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). The flight experiment will utilize common power and data bus interfaces in order to demonstrate the methodology to achieve commonality. To improve engineering and manufacturing readiness of BMDS sensor systems, Producibility and Manufacturing is investing in the next generation of sensor technologies. For BMDS kill vehicles Producibility and Manufacturing has developed a strategy for incorporating lower cost materials and subsystems/components (cryocoolers, focal plane arrays, telescope materials) to improve missile affordability and performance. For ground-based sensors, Producibility and Manufacturing is investing in technologies to improve the performance and reliability of sensor components while reducing component costs. Producibility and Manufacturing is investing in Divert and Attitude Control System components and material development in order to reduce manufacturing lead times and improve system performance. The materials development/characterization program will provide the next generation of high temperature composites/insulators and ablative components for rocket motors and engines. Component and subsystem risk reduction testing will demonstrate improvements in technical and manufacturing readiness of these components for missile defense applications. Miniaturization and radiation hardening of next generation inertial measurement units are needed for missile defense applications. Producibility and Manufacturing is maturing technologies to enable miniature, radiation hardened IMUs for interceptors and satellites. (YX32 & MD32) QUALITY, SAFETY AND MISSION ASSURANCE (QSMA) The MDA Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance Directorate is responsible for MDA system-wide quality, safety, and mission assurance. Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance maintains an agency-wide perspective to ensure both program and system Mission Assurance requirements are met to achieve a capable BMDS. Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance provides practical and robust safety, quality and mission assurance policy, guidance, expertise and assistance to the BMDS and all Elements. Each MDA program has direct Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance support to ensure that quality, safety and mission assurance is addressed at all times. In addition, Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance provide the program elements and their prime contractors, sub-contractors, and suppliers direct onsite support to meet emergent or surge safety requirements. Support includes experienced technical, non-advocate oversight on the design, development, test, manufacturing, integration and operations of critical facilities and suppliers. Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance Budget Justification and Contribution to the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS): Quality, Safety and Mission Assurance efforts enable the development, testing and fielding of an effective, reliable, and safe missile defense capability. To ensure the BMDS can meet its performance, quality, safety, and mission assurance requirements, quality, safety and mission assurance principles and disciplines are being standardized and applied throughout each element and the entire BMDS. Implementation and maintenance of these principles and disciplines are essential to providing an effective war-fighting capability. There are over 27 MDA Assurance Representatives (MARs) located throughout the United States at major Government and supplier sites. MARs provide Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) and supplier`s direct access to MDA and provide unfettered program insight to the MDA Director through weekly reporting. Quality, Safety and Mission Assurance Major Program Goals: Improve Supplier / Contractor reliability through a comprehensive quality, safety and mission assurance Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance program that employ Agency wide requirements for design, test, manufacturing, quality, safety and sustainment; provides on-site support to ensure compliance to imposed requirements, and maintains a comprehensive audit program to police overall Supplier performance. Provide Agency leadership a non-advocate, independent organization that promotes industry best practices in Agency and Supplier operations. (YX28 & MD28) INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY This project funds three specific areas: 1) The Intelligence Requirements Division which provides a single integrated mission area focus that interfaces with the Intelligence Community to acquire collection and analysis of data on foreign threat missiles. MDA uses this information to provide support to the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) architecture design, testing, modeling and wargaming to reduce risk and improve system performance; 2) Counterintelligence Division, which conducts defensive counterintelligence activities to detect, identify, assess, exploit, penetrate, degrade and counter or neutralize Foreign Intelligence and Security Service collection efforts, other intelligence activities, espionage, sabotage, sedition, subversion, assassination, and international terrorist activities directed against the MDA, its personnel, information, material, facilities, and activities worldwide; and 3) BMDS Security Assessment and Certification Directorate, which develops a comprehensive picture of the Information Assurance/Computer Network Defense architecture at all levels of BMDS. Together, these efforts provide critical information regarding threat ballistic missile system capabilities (Intelligence); protection of personnel and activities from espionage and terrorism through active and passive activities (Counterintelligence); and BMDS system vulnerabilities (BMDS Information Assurance Functional Manager). Intelligence and Security Program Budget Justification and Contribution to the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS): 1) Intelligence: The MDA Intelligence Requirements Division acts as a clearing house for MDA`s requirements for the Intelligence Community collection, analysis and production. The MDA Intelligence Requirements Division acts as agent for quality control and dissemination of Intelligence Community products for all properly cleared Government and contractor personnel and provides feedback to the Intelligence Community on subsequent questions, issues and other needs resulting from Intelligence Community reporting. The intelligence process begins when the Intelligence Community collects and analyzes data on foreign threat missiles. Resulting threats and threat changes are given to the BMDS System Engineer who uses the threats to develop and change the BMDS. Through this activity, threat data is provided to support BMDS architecture design, testing, modeling, and wargaming. This information reduces the risk and improves system performance. It enables MDA Program Managers to achieve a sufficiently accurate understanding of the threat environment to respond to relevant capabilities of immediate importance, make informed decisions and invest limited resources on countering the most significant aspects of potential adversary capabilities. Other aspects of the Intelligence Program are designed to gain access to, and leverage, unique, Intelligence Community developed, owned and operated capabilities for the benefit and advocacy of the Missile Defense Community. Many are highly classified and require both access and expertise to exploit. The program supports the overarching MDA objectives of BMDS on Alert, continuing evolutionary development, and enhanced BMDS capabilities. 2) Counterintelligence: Pursuant to DoD Directive O-5240.2 , MDA`s Counterintelligence Division conducts defensive counterintelligence activities including Technical Surveillance Countermeasures and counterintelligence in Cyberspace activities to detect, identify, assess, exploit, penetrate, degrade and counter or neutralize Foreign Intelligence and Security Service collection efforts, other intelligence activities, espionage, sabotage, sedition, subversion, ssassination, and international terrorist activities directed against the MDA, its personnel, information, material, facilities, and activities worldwide. 3) BMDS Information Assurance: This division is responsible for executing the mission of the BMDS Information Assurance Functional Manager and enhancing the cyber infrastructure of the MDA BMDS. In this capacity, the division fulfills the DoD policy mandated role of the Information Assurance Manager and the BMDS Information System Security Engineering lead for Information Assurance/Computer Network Defense development activities, responsible for the Information Assurance/Computer Network Defense posture of BMDS. This division is responsible for assisting the BMDS to manage and deploy Information Assurance/Computer Network Defense requirements and solutions to fulfill DoD and Warfighter mandates, while enhancing the robustness and resilience of the cyber infrastructure. To fulfill this role, the division works in concert with Information Assurance Engineers and Information Assurance Managers to obtain a comprehensive picture of the overall Information Assurance/Computer Network Defense architecture at all levels of the BMDS, then influence the design by 1) identifying and developing Enabling Standards and Requirements to implement Defense-in-Depth within planned development cycles (Builds); 2) providing oversight, coordination and management of key information assurance management processes, technical requirements development, and policy-mandated responsibilities; 3) providing contract acquisition support to BMDS Elements ensuring Information Assurance is addressed throughout the procurement process, and; 4) interfacing with the Intelligence Community to define cyber security threats relevant to the BMDS. Intelligence and Security Program Major Program Goals: Ensure the Intelligence Community understands, accurately and timely fulfills MDA`s current and future prioritized intelligence requirements; broker BMDS test support collection requirements with the intelligence community and that MDA`s intelligence needs and finished intelligence requirements are understood while ensuring the intelligence community is involved in technical interchange meetings, etc. Continue the federated approach to supporting MDA by leveraging available national and DoD Counterintelligence resources to ensure counterintelligence products and services are fully integrated into all RDT&E programs and activities to protect classified information and critical technologies and to support and protect MDA and BMDS personnel, facilities, information and activities from threats posed by Foreign Intelligence and Security Service, terrorism and criminal activities. Consistently, comprehensively and definitively define information assurance for Continental United States (CONUS) and non-CONUS based on BMDS assets. Define Information Assurance/Computer Network Defense and cyber security infrastructure intelligence requirements to focus Intelligence Community collection, analysis and production to target MDA BMDS vulnerabilities; definitive and incorporate information assurance into the systems engineering process. (YX30 & MD30) BMD INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS The MDA Director has established a multi-year strategy to realign and consolidate information technology resources that directly support our mission, test, and administrative systems. This strategy is designed to achieve secure systems that provide greater efficiency and effectiveness in compliance with Federal mandates and DoD policies. The BMD Information Management Systems project includes all aspects of Information Technology. BMD Information Management Systems Budget Justification and Contribution to the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS): The BMD Information Management Systems project integrates and supports every aspect of the BMD System (BMDS) by providing a secure and reliable Information Management/Information Technology (IM/IT) infrastructure and services necessary to enable the BMDS Elements and operators to collaborate and share information which is essential to accomplishing the complex integrated BMDS mission. BMD Information Management Systems Major Program Goals: Provide 8 hours a day, 5 days a week operational support to critical day-to-day Information Technology requirements for Agency missions Ensure MDA mission, test and administrative systems are operated securely in accordance with DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation policies.

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Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date: Oct 01, 2011
Source ID: 0603890C_4_0400_PB_2011
Change Summary Explanation: The FY2009 decrease of $2 thousand is due to SBIR/STTR transfer and MDA reprogramming. The FY2010 difference is due to Congressional Directed Reductions and Total Adjustments. No FY 2011 data provided in PB10.
Service Agency Name: Missile Defense Agency

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