Test Program
Abstract
The Test Program provides consolidated Missile Defense Agency (MDA) capabilities and resources to support the management and execution of Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) and Element-level testing. With the evolution of the BMDS, testing needs have expanded beyond those of the individual Elements to include testing of BMDS Critical Engagement Conditions (CEC) and Empirical Measurement Events (EME) to anchor modeling and simulations. The Directorate for Test is responsible for all BMDS testing. The Directorate for Test relies on BMD Systems Engineering to provide the system test objectives to define the test architecture. The Directorate for Test plans and executes BMD system test events. The Directorate for Test also develops the necessary test policy, test plans, and test infrastructure to conduct an effective test program. Activities are grouped into four major areas: 1) Support to Operations, which provides for the Test Functional Management Office, flight and ground testing support, target launch operations, and Operational Test Agency assessments; 2) Infrastructure Support to Flight Test and Ground Test Programs, which develops, sustains, and modernizes the core infrastructure assets required to support the BMDS System and Element-level flight and ground testing; 3) Flight Test and Ground Test Infrastructure Development, which provides for Integrated Master Test Plan infrastructure development, auxiliary sensors development, and component ground test lab development; and 4) Common Test Support, which provides for test planning and design, test data management, ground test lab support, test readiness and training, and the Pacific Range Support Team (PRST). Other test related program content involving engineering test analysis; concurrent test, training, and operations; fielding and integration; and facilities, siting, and environmental management, are also included within this project. The goals of this budgetary objective are to support and improve a robust testing program, and to enhance modeling and simulation efforts to provide, in conjunction with flight and ground testing, confidence to the Combatant Commanders that the missile defense system works. The MDA test program, along with the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Operational Test Agencies, conducts a rigorous review of BMDS models and simulations (M&S) to determine the data needed to verify, validate, and accredit the models and simulations. Working with the Services, Operational Test Agencies (OTA), and with the support of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), the test program was restructured to improve confidence in the missile defense capabilities under development and ensure the capabilities transferred to the Warfighter are operationally effective, suitable, and survivable. Additional Test Program Content Test Engineering supports the analysis process by providing event leadership, tools, and processes to conduct pre- and post-mission system level analysis for all BMD system flight and ground test events. Analysis is performed and reported using the Joint Analysis Team (JAT) process. Pre-mission analysis provides essential risk reduction analysis used to optimize conditions for successful accomplishment of the primary mission objectives. Post-mission analysis is performed to assess the primary and secondary test objectives, and to identify mission-specific performance enhancements or anomalies that were observed. The Ballistic Missile Defense System performance assessment strategy is to develop models and simulations of the Ballistic Missile Defense System and compare their predictions to empirical data collected through comprehensive flight and ground testing to validate model and simulation accuracy, rather than physically testing all possible combinations of Ballistic Missile Defense System configurations, engagement conditions, and target phenomena. FY12 budget request recognizes that historical execution rates will result in FY11 funds available to support the FY12 program. The planned accomplishments reflect the use of the FY11 funding in addition to the FY12 request.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- MD04_0603888C_4_0400_PB_2012
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