Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center (MDIOC)

Abstract

The Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center (MDIOC) is the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) field operating activity in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It provides the necessary infrastructure and support services through a mission execution platform for MDA elements/components and designated Combatant Commanders' Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) operations executing missions at the MDIOC. The Integration Center is the organization responsible for providing a single, integrated set of skilled personnel matrixed from across MDA to manage this mission. The MDIOC mission facilities consists of a highly secure research and development complex and a mission support module (area) located within a military installation (Schriever Air Force Base) that is adjacent to North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM). The MDA Integration Center provides mission critical system technical capabilities and subject matter expertise in a dedicated and adaptable environment that enables developers, testers, and operators to evolve, assess and deliver the capabilities for layered missile defense execution for homeland defense and theater/regional support. The Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center (MDIOC) interfaces with the Information Technology/Information Assurance Enterprise to provide high availability access to worldwide secure communications, network health and status monitoring, mission critical restoral capability, and technical expertise for all MDA directed activities and events. The MDIOC functions as the mission control for BMDS distributed ground test and system wide flight tests. The mission and test directors for these key tests control both main and associated test operations using secure voice, test, and mission network hubs at the MDIOC. The MDIOC also functions (within MDA's capabilities-based acquisition strategy) as the only system-level integration and interoperability mission execution platform for BMDS fire control; and it provides the physical interface between the developers and the Combatant Command warfighters. MDIOC mission facilities contribute to the BMDS by directly supporting the concept of Concurrent Test, Training, and Operations (CTTO) for the BMDS. The MDIOC accomplishes this by providing engineering integration, resource scheduling, configuration management, and implementation development support for MDA and BMDS-level test, training, and operational mission execution. The Integration Center provides engineering and operational integration by: -Implementing the technical event architectures for the models and simulations used to support missile defense planning seminars, wargames, exercises, and analyses -Supporting BMDS Critical Engagement Conditions (CEC) testing and analysis by operating the Test Execution Control (TEC) for distributed BMDS ground tests, and ensuring the integrity of their technical system architecture -Providing network operations and information assurance for all on-site integration activities -Integrating and sustaining the enabling infrastructure, services, and processes that support the operation of designated elements of the BMDS and resident Combatant Command operations and/or support centers -Providing technical support for the BMDS Watch Officers, BMDS Safety Officers, and Information Assurance Officers in their efforts to monitor and assess the health and status of the networks and elements that impact BMDS test and operations -Operating the Joint Early Warning Laboratory for anomaly resolution -Supporting the Intelligence Support Center for critical situational awareness intelligence on worldwide ballistic missile developments that could affect the development and/or operation of the BMDS Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center (MDIOC) Major Program Goals: -Provide the capabilities and services necessary to support engineering integration, resource scheduling for ground and flight tests, configuration management, and implementation development support of on-site activities -Ensure around the clock support and restoral of designated BMDS operational activities -Improve interface with designated Combatant Command missile defense activities; host/support the headquarters and operations center for United States Strategic Command Joint Functional Component Command - Integrated Missile Defense -Continue to achieve cost effectiveness and efficiencies through the leveraging of existing Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center infrastructure, services, processes, and expertise to support assigned missions -Maintain and improve as designated the reliability, availability, and maintainability of mission critical systems 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).

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2016
• Source ID: 0603904C_4_0400_PB_2016
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2015 change reflects Public Law 113-235, FY2015 Omnibus; Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act. FY 2016 adjustments reflect realignment to Department of Defense priorities.
• Service Agency Name: Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Ballistic Missiles
• Civilian Personnel
• Configuration Management
• Costs
• Defense Systems
• Engineering
• Homeland Defense
• Information Assurance
• Information Systems
• Product Development
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Unified Combatant Commands
• United States
• United States Northern Command
• Warfare

Readers

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

Technology Areas

• Space