BMD Enabling Programs

Abstract

The Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System Enabling Programs provide the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) with the critical products and processes needed to combine element missile defense systems into a single, integrated and layered Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS), providing the capability required by the BMD Review while improving protection performance and minimizing force structure costs. BMD System-level engineering and integration enables interoperability and drives future capability development from a System perspective to maximize the effectiveness of BMD technologies. Specifically, the Enabling Programs evaluate the integrated BMD System functionality, 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. As a result, MDA is able to provide evolving, integrated and layered BMDS performance and capabilities that have been thoroughly assessed and validated through testing and Modeling and Simulation. This Program Element includes support for the Discrimination Improvements for Homeland Defense (DIHD) effort. The goal of this effort is to develop and field an integrated set of Element capabilities to improve BMDS effectiveness and resilience against the evolving threat. The end result will be a future BMDS architecture more capable of discriminating and destroying a re-entry vehicle with a high degree of confidence, improving Warfighter shot doctrine and preserving inventory. This effort encompasses a Near-term, Mid-term, and Far-term DIHD capability fielding. DIHD is a combined effort between Systems Engineering, Ground-based Midcourse Defense (PE 0603882C), BMD Sensors (PE 0603884C), C2BMC (PE 0603896C), Aegis BMD (PE 0603892C) and Advanced C4ISR (PE 0603179C). The MDA Enabling Programs are: -(MD24) Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) - Systems Engineering and Integration 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 through BMD level control of system requirements, and allocates those requirements to the Elements and Components most capable of supporting intercepts in a particular Phased Adaptive Approach (PAA) phase. -(MT23) Enabling-Test - The Enabling Programs Test project drives BMDS test planning, execution and post-test assessment and provides critical data for proving that missile defense works. -(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 decision-making for BMD System capability deliveries. 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 fundamental 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 and MDA. -(MD30) Information Management Systems - Information Management is vital to the efficient operation and safeguarding of all information, from development to fielding new BMDS capabilities. -(MC30) Cyber Operations - The Cyber Operations project sustains MDA's DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Program (DIACAP) and Controls Validation Testing (CVT) activities. It also funds the MDA Security Operations Center (SOC), responsible for monitoring, managing, patching, and maintaining MDA network and core Information Technology (IT) services; issuing and tracking Technical Compliance Orders; and coordinating overarching Enterprise NetOps. The MDA Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), funded in this project, monitors the classified and unclassified information technology MDA administrative IT networks and report vulnerabilities. The MDA CERT coordinates with U.S. Cyber Command to identify and implement network vulnerability updates and patches to comply with U.S. Cyber Command vulnerabilities identified for DoD networks. The project also funds Information Assurance (IA) governance management and administrative management support, annual Agency-wide computer-based IA training and metrics reporting, implementation of Public Key Infrastructure and Enabling and Communications Security (COMSEC) related activities. -(MD31) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) - As missile defense technologies continually advance and the threat changes, M&S develops system-level models, simulations, and environments, then evaluates performance of the Elements, Components, and overall BMD System in support of verification, validation and accreditation activities. MDA's M&S program provides a cost effective means to assess and explore the performance space of the BMDS beyond what can be physically tested under current test range conditions and within the Agency's fiscal constraints. Through conceptual simulation activities, M&S provides the capability to design and develop technologies to hedge against future missile threats. -(MC31) M&S Cyber Operations provides the network / system certification and accreditation of M&S related information technology networks and systems necessary to comply with the Federal Information Security Management Act. -(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. -(MD40) Program-Wide Support (PWS) consists of essential non-headquarters management efforts providing integrated and efficient support to the 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, 2016
Source ID
0603890C_4_0400_PB_2016
Change Summary Explanation
FY 2015 changes reflect Public Law 113-235, FY2015 Omnibus; Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act. The FY 2016 decrease reflects realignment of Department of Defense priorities.
Service Agency Name
Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Network Security
  • Computer Networks
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Detection
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligence Collection
  • Management Personnel
  • Mobile Phones
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Space

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