Ballistic Missile Defense System Space Programs

Abstract

The Missile Defense Space Development Center (MDSDC) facilitates the integration and demonstration of missile defense space capabilities with other defense and national security systems. The MDSDC infrastructure provides Missile Defense Agency (MDA) user capabilities for supporting flight tests, conducting concept development, demonstrations, experiments, and developing and evaluating algorithms within a multi-security level, collaborative environment. As part of a collaborative environment, the MDSDC conducts studies and experiments with Air Force Space Command seeking to optimize future MDA space layer options to support Space Situational Awareness (SSA). The MDSDC provides MDA elements with a central point of activity for Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) space sensor layer operations and integration to support the ballistic missile defense mission. The infrastructure of the MDSDC supports the operation and control of MDA satellites such as Space Tracking Surveillance System Demonstration (STSS-D) Satellites and the Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) satellite. In addition, the MDSDC annual operating expenses provide infrastructure support for security, configuration management, engineering, test, experiment, data, and logistics and create a collaborative environment for the MDA community that includes STSS-D; NFIRE; BMDS Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Architecture (BOA); Command and Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC); Integrated Sensor Manager (ISM); MDA C2BMC Experimentation Laboratory (X-Lab); MDA Enterprise Sensors Laboratory (ESL); and future MDA space layer options. Modeling and Simulation (M&S) activities at the MDSDC support all phases of STSS-D maturation, including: development and necessary revision of Mission Planning and Analysis Tools, Data Collection Events, System Functional and Performance Tests, flight test missions, ground tests, wargames, exercises, and performance assessments (PAs). Goals for the MDSDC: - Develop and refine ground operational concepts for MDA space systems, sensors, data, services, and networks - Conduct satellite operations for MDA space sensor satellites (STSS-D, NFIRE) - Operate and refine the MDSDC Interchange System (MIS) to provide robust access to MDA space data and MDA user net-centric sensor tasking request interface - Develop a security environment to support data integration, test, demonstrations, and experiments across multiple security levels - Provide a Test Integration Lab (TIL) to support testing, demonstrations, experiments, integration and algorithm development - Demonstrate connectivity and integration of space sensor layer data for the BMDS community and external users - Conduct experiments to test algorithm validity for Missile Defense space systems - Conduct studies and experiments with Air Force Space Command to optimize future MDA space layer options to support SSA - Mature BMDS space based sensing through studies, analysis, sensor data integration, algorithm development, performance assessments, and architecture improvements - Develop and mature Joint space sensing CONOPS, Tactics, Techniques, & Procedures (TTPs), and asset management to evaluate space based sensor contributions to the BMDS - Integrate and evaluate MDA, other DoD agencies, and Services space capabilities to demonstrate space based sensing contributions for discrimination support, hit assessment, dim target detection and tracking, advanced threat tracking, and wideband IR sensor data integration and exploitation - Develop and demonstrate real Infrared/Radar data fusion (System Track) - Conduct experiments and demonstrate Space Tracking Surveillance System Demonstration (STSS-D) Satellites discrimination capabilities (identifying object details to determine the target from debris or decoys) - Provide infrastructure to demonstrate integration of missile defense space capabilities with other defense and national security systems MD40 Program-Wide Support (PWS) consists of essential non-headquarters management costs in support of 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, 2014
Source ID
0603895C_4_0400_PB_2014
Change Summary Explanation
FY 2014 reduction reflects realignment of Department of Defense priorities.
Service Agency Name
Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Battle Management
  • Command And Control
  • Data Integration
  • Defense Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • National Security
  • Reconnaissance Satellites
  • Security
  • Situational Awareness
  • Space Based
  • Space Situational Awareness
  • Space Systems
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Space
  • Space - Satellites
  • Space - Space Objects

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