Ballistic Missile Defense Midcourse Defense Segment Test

Abstract

Ballistic Missile Defense Midcourse Defense Segment (BMDS) Test provides flight, ground, and cyber testing of Ground Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) functionality to demonstrate Homeland Defense capabilities against allocated threats. The GMD Element is tested in an integrated environment with MDS sensors; Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications; Warfighters; and national collection assets to assess the ability to defend the United States and its territories against ballistic missiles. Primary activities include GMD Flight Test Execution, Ground Test Execution, Cyber Test Execution, Resources, and Program Operations. BMDS Test provides day-to-day operations of the GMD Test program to include engineering support for test planning, execution, and post-event reconstruction. GMD flight tests provide the opportunity to test actual hardware and to demonstrate MDS Element interoperability under operationally realistic conditions. GMD ground tests are executed both in the Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) lab environment and in the field, and provide performance assessments for GMD fielding decisions. GMD cyber tests are executed both in the HWIL lab environment and in the field, and provide GMD cyber, operational resilience, and system survivability assessments. GMD Test Resources provides the infrastructure, laboratories, and prime contractor program management to support the GMD Test program. Program Operations provides for government management and support of the GMD Test program.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
• Source ID: 0604887C_4_0400_PB_2023
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2023 funding increase reflects the fact that the FY 2022 President's Budget request did not include out-year funding.
• Service Agency Name: Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Aerial Warfare
• Ballistic Missiles
• Command And Control
• Configuration Management
• Contractors
• Contracts
• Defense Systems
• Deployment
• Ground Based
• Homeland Defense
• Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles
• Program Management
• Space Force
• Test And Evaluation
• United States
• United States Northern Command
• Warfare

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

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

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control