BMD Enabling Programs

Abstract

The Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System Enabling Programs provide the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) with the critical processes needed to integrate element missile defense systems into a layered Ballistic Missile Defense System (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 (PE), 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: -(MD24) Systems Engineering and Integration - Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) leads the integration of the Ballistic Missile Defense (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 (PAA) phase. -(MT23) Enabling-Test - The Enabling Programs Test project drives Ballistic Missile Defense System test planning, execution and post-test assessment and provides critical data for proving that missile defense works. -(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. -(MD29) Producibility and Manufacturing Technology - Producibility and Manufacturing focuses on technology development for future generation interceptors. -(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. -(MD28) Intelligence and Security - MDA develops data from intelligence sources into the necessary engineering products that drive the design, development, and testing used to inform and support internal MDA decisions and BMD System design reviews. Engineering processes translate missile data into threat parameter space and generate threat scenarios contained in the SE&I-developed Adversary Capability Document. These products are also necessary for system ground testing, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and the target development for live-fire testing necessary to assess system operation and verify and validate system performance. Security is also provided as an Enabling Program to apply protection across the entire BMDS. -(MD30) Information Management Systems - Information Management is vital to the efficient operation and safeguarding of all information, from development to fielding new BMDS capabilities. MD40 consists of Program-Wide Support (PWS) non-headquarters management costs in support of MDA functions and activities across the entire Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS).

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2013
Source ID
0603890C_4_0400_PB_2013
Change Summary Explanation
FY 2011 changes include: -$40.000 million Congressional Reduction; +$43.500 million Congressional Transfer in from 0603888C Test and Targets engineering efforts as directed by the Department of Defense and Full Year Continuing Appropriation Act, FY 2011 (Public Law 112-10); and SBIR/STTR -$4.799 million. Other adjustments include General Provision reductions for 8024(f) FFRDC of -$0.427 million, Economic Assumption 8117 of - $2.065 million, and Civilian Pay -$0.268 million. The FY 2012 increase includes $41.968 million Congressional transfer directed by the Consolidated Appropriation Act of FY 2012 (Public Law 112-74) transfer from MD40 Program Wide Support, BMDS Test and Targets Program Element 0603888C. The FY 2013 $31.508 million increase includes the transfer of a portion of the Intelligence and Security personnel from Program Wide Support (Budget Project MD40) from the BMD Aegis Program Element (PE) 0603892C to the Intelligence & Security Project MD28 in the Enabling Program Element (PE) 0603890C, plus realignment to Department of Defense priorities.
Service Agency Name
Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Application Software
  • Business Administration
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Computer Networks
  • Information Systems
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Security Personnel
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Central Command
  • United States Strategic Command
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • Space

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