BMD Enabling Programs

Abstract

The BMDS Enabling Programs provide critical products and processes needed to combine element missile defense systems into a single, integrated and layered BMDS to provide new defensive capabilities and evaluate existing capabilities against the emerging threats. Specifically, the Enabling Programs: - Define BMDS architectures and functional requirements, conduct Analyses of Alternatives for the DoD, and provide engineering requirements, execution support, and pre- and post-mission analysis for BMD System tests - Provide validated models and simulations for BMD System assessment - Assess BMDS performance and deliver capabilities to the Warfighter - Provide multi-disciplinary security and intelligence support for BMDS acquisition, development, test, and deployment - Provide Information Management tools and products supporting the development of BMDS capabilities while safeguarding networks and critical program information - Evaluate quality, technical safeguards, and mission assurance effectiveness - Assess System ability to maintain integrity and superiority with advances in technology development This Program Element includes support for discrimination improvement efforts, which aim 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 BMDS architecture more capable of discriminating and destroying a re-entry vehicle with a higher degree of confidence, improving Warfighter shot doctrine and preserving inventory. This effort encompasses Near-term, Mid-term, and Far-term discrimination improvements capability fielding. The discrimination improvements require a coordinated 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). MDA is conducting studies to determine optimal radar site locations for defense of the U.S. from Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs). The locations would include a site for deployment of a long-range discrimination radar and a potential homeport for the Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) on the East Coast of the United States. The initial analysis will determine the operational areas where sensors could be placed to meet the sensor discrimination needs of the BMD system. Once this analysis is complete MDA will begin development of site scoring criteria and, in the case of the SBX, assessments of transit time and time on station for candidate home port options. MDA will then develop initial screening criteria for operations and maintenance. This will be the basis for selection of at least three sites for more detailed examination, including environmental impact studies. MD24 Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) defines required system-wide behavior, validates Element system designs, and verifies and assesses BMD System capability to defend the U.S. and its friends, allies, and deployed forces from ballistic missile attacks. SE&I develops technical roadmaps, knowledge points, and capability trades at the BMDS level to balance integration and capability improvement efforts. MT23 Enabling-Test provides BMDS test planning, execution and post-test assessment, and provides critical data for proving that missile defense works. MD28 Intelligence and Security integrates multiple technical intelligence disciplines, such as intelligence, counterintelligence, cyber security, RDA security, and threat engineering, to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities to MDA and the BMDS and develop and implement strategies to mitigate those risks. MD30 Information Management Systems is a critical support element to MDA's RDT&E mission. This effort provides secure and affordable enterprise information capabilities in support of the Agency's global mission. These IT functions consist of MDA secure communication networks, IT systems, special purpose processing nodes, operations and monitoring centers, and disaster recovery and continuity of operations requirements. These capabilities support the rapid deployment of the BMDS while complying with DoD initiatives of the Joint Information Environment (JIE) and the Unified Capabilities Framework to ensure MDA remains compatible with the DoD Information Network (DODIN). MC30 Cyber Operations 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) develops system-level models, simulations, and environments as missile defense technologies continually advance and the threat changes, and evaluates performance of the Elements, Components, and overall BMD System in support of verification, validation and accreditation. 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. M&S conceptual simulation activities provide 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 improves 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 MDA functions and activities across the entire BMDS.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2017
• Source ID: 0603890C_4_0400_PB_2017
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2017 adjustment reflects a realignment of Department of Defense priorities.
• Service Agency Name: Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Business Administration
• Computer Access Control
• Computer Network Security
• Computer Networks
• Cyberspace Operations
• Data Analysis
• Detection
• Information Systems
• Insider Threats
• Logistics
• Management Personnel
• National Security
• Organizational Structure
• Reliability
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Unified Combatant Commands

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

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

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Space