Ballistic Missile Defense Enabling Programs

Abstract

The Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System Enabling Programs provide the Missile Defense Agency with the critical processes needed to integrate element missile defense systems into a layered BMDS providing the capability required by BMD Review, while improving protection performance with increased defended area, and minimizing force structure costs. The Enabling Programs, embedded within a single Program Element, independently evaluate the integrated BMD System methodology, threat, manufacturing maturity, technical safeguards, and mission assurance effectiveness while simultaneously assessing whether the System is proficient at maintaining its integrity and superiority with advances in technology development. The MDA Enabling Programs are: - (YX 24 & MD24) Systems Engineering and Integration - Systems Engineering and Integration leads the integration of the BMD System using Element and Component capabilities to provide the Warfighter with the ability to defend the United States and its friends and allies from ballistic missile attacks. Systems Engineering defines and develops integrated BMD System capability improvements such as Aegis Ashore through BMD level control of system requirements, and allocates those requirements to the Element and Component levels most capable of supporting intercepts in a particular Phased Adaptive Approach phase. - (YX31 & MD31) Modeling and Simulation - As missile defense technologies continually advance and the threat changes, Modeling and Simulation develops system-level models, simulations, and environments, then evaluates performance of the Elements, Components, and overall BMD System. - (YX 29 & MD29) Producibility and Manufacturing Technology - Producibility and Manufacturing provides technical 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. - (YX32 & MD32) Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance - Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance has the distinct management role of improving quality, safety, and mission assurance throughout the product life cycle of design, manufacturing, test and system operation, in order to achieve a safe and reliable BMD System. - (YX28 & MD28) Intelligence and Security - 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. - (YX30 & MD30) Information Management Systems - Information Management is vital to the efficient operation and safeguarding of all information, from development to fielding new BMDS capabilities.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2012
Source ID
0603890C_4_0400_PB_2012
Change Summary Explanation
The FY 2012 $95.110 million dollar decrease in this program element is the result of the Propulsion Technology content and associated funding moving to the Standard Missile-3 Block IIB PE 0603902C, $21.924 million in efficiency savings and MDA programmatic changes.
Service Agency Name
Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Advanced Materials
  • Air Force
  • Application Software
  • Business Administration
  • Composite Materials
  • Computer Network Security
  • Computer Networks
  • Engineers
  • Inertial Measurement Units
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligence Collection
  • Intelligence Cycle
  • National Security
  • Reliability
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Missile Defense Systems.

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