Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center (MDIOC)

Abstract

The Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center (MDIOC) sustains and operates a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year mission complex for critical research, development, testing, training, and operations for Missile Defense System (MDS) activities. The MDIOC supports the Ground-based Midcourse Defense Mission Control Center Facility, as well as the Command, Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) Integration and Test Centers and the C2BMC Experimentation Laboratories. It provides infrastructure support for the Space Sensors Missile Defense Space Center (MDSC); and the Targets and Countermeasures' (TC) Mission Control Center - Targets (MCC-T). The MDIOC also provides developmental support to the Enterprise Sensors Laboratory (ESL) composed of a common satellite ground station and sensor netting test bed for designated MDS elements. The MDIOC supports MDS test events based on the Integrated Master Test Plan (IMTP). It supports MDS Critical Engagement Conditions testing and analysis through the operation of the Test Execution Control node for distributed MDS ground tests. During system flight tests, the MDIOC provides infrastructure (power; Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning; and communications) support to the Flight Test Director and crew, and ensures the protection of facility and test assets throughout the test window. Further, the MDIOC provides the facilities that support operations of the Missile Defense Element, manned by the U.S. Army 100th Missile Defense Brigade, the United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) C2BMC Command and Control Center (CCC), and the United States Strategic Command's (USSTRATCOM's) Joint Functional Component Command-Integrated Missile Defense (JFCC-IMD). In addition, the MDIOC supports the MDA Operations Support Center, which provides situational awareness on the health and status of the end-to-end MDS. The MDIOC hosts MDS wargames and exercises in support of the warfighter, and delivers the requisite infrastructure to integrate the modeling and simulation assets that form system-level constructive simulations for full-envelope MDS performance assessments, with surrogate capability for MDS ground tests. The MDIOC maintains a technical repository of MDS Implementation Architectures for real-time operations and configuration control; provides state change management and asset management technical support for the MDS; and provides the technical environment for MDS Watch Officers, Safety Officers, and Information Assurance Officers to perform their assigned duties. The MDIOC also supports the operations of the Joint Early Warning Laboratory (JEWL), which provides USSTRATCOM with quick response analyses of real-world launches, and rapid anomaly identification and resolution.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
• Source ID: MD22_0603904C_4_0400_PB_2023

Tags

Readers

• 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