Intelligence & Security

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Intelligence and Security Program Major Program Goals: - Ensure the Intelligence Community understands and fulfills the Missile Defense Agency`s (MDA`s) current and future prioritized intelligence requirements in an accurate and timely manner; advocate Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) test support collection requirements with the Intelligence Community; and ensure that MDA`s intelligence needs and finished intelligence requirements are understood while ensuring the Intelligence Community is involved in technical interchange meetings. - Continue the federated approach to supporting MDA by leveraging available National and Department of Defense (DoD) Counterintelligence resources to ensure counterintelligence products and services are fully integrated into all Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) programs and activities to protect classified information and critical technologies and to support and protect MDA and BMDS personnel, facilities, information and activities from criminal, terrorist and Foreign Intelligence and Security Service targeting/threats. - Consistently and comprehensively define cyber security systems engineering requirements for Continental United States (CONUS) and non-CONUS based BMDS assets. Define cyber security systems engineering and cyber security infrastructure intelligence requirements to focus Intelligence Community collection, analysis and production to target MDA/BMDS cyber vulnerabilities, and incorporate cyber security engineering requirements into the systems engineering process. The Security and Intelligence Project captures four specific areas: 1) Intelligence 2) Counterintelligence 3) Cyber Security Engineering 4) Research, Development Acquisition (RDA) Security Collectively, these efforts provide critical information regarding threat ballistic missile system capabilities (via intelligence); protection of personnel, activities, and technology from espionage and terrorism through active and passive activities (via counterintelligence); and BMDS system vulnerabilities (via Cyber Security Engineering). 1) Intelligence provides a clearing house for MDA`s requirements for the Intelligence Community collection, analysis and production. Intelligence also provides for quality control and dissemination of Intelligence Community products for all properly cleared Government and contractor personnel and provides feedback to the Intelligence Community on subsequent questions, issues and other requirements resulting from Intelligence Community reporting. The intelligence process begins when the Intelligence Community collects and analyzes data on foreign threat missiles. Resulting threats and threat changes are provided to the BMDS System Engineer, who uses the threats to develop and change the BMDS. This information reduces risk and improves system performance. It enables MDA Program Managers to achieve a sufficiently accurate understanding of the threat environment to respond to relevant capabilities of immediate importance, make informed decisions, and invest limited resources on countering the most significant aspects of potential adversary capabilities. Other aspects of Intelligence are designed to gain access to, and leverage unique Intelligence Community developed, owned and operated capabilities for the benefit and advocacy of the Missile Defense Community. Numerous Intelligence Community capabilities are highly classified and require both access and expertise to exploit. 2) Counterintelligence undertakes defensive Counterintelligence (CI) activities as part of an integrated DoD/National effort to detect and neutralize foreign intelligence collection efforts, espionage and terrorist activities directed against MDA personnel, information, facilities, and activities or against U.S. National Security. Pursuant to DoD Directive O-5240.02 (Counterintelligence) and other DoD CI policy issuances: -- Conduct CI Investigations: Conduct initial inquiries into reported or suspected clandestine relationships between MDA personnel and agents of a foreign power or international terrorist organizations -- Perform CI Collection: Systematically collect intelligence information via liaison relationships with U.S. and host-nation intelligence, CI and law enforcement organizations and debriefings of MDA foreign travelers -- Perform CI Analysis and Production: Produce assessments, analytical reports, threat advisories and other products to keep MDA program elements and senior leadership informed on foreign intelligence, international terrorism and foreign entity cyber threat -- Provide CI Functional Services: Conduct defensive CI activities in support of MDA SAP and RDA programs, test events, and fielding/deployment activities to protect Critical Program Information and sensitive technologies from foreign intelligence collection activities and international terrorism threats. 3) Cyber Security Engineering Program assists the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) to manage and deploy Cyber Security engineering requirements and solutions to fulfill DoD and Warfighter mandates, while enhancing the robustness and resilience of the cyber infrastructure. Develop and coordinate near-term and long-term engineering changes to the BMDS that advances the confidentiality, integrity, and availability and counter cyber threats posed by our adversaries. To fulfill this role, the BMDS Cyber Security Engineering program works in concert with Information Assurance Engineers, Intelligence and Counterintelligence to obtain a comprehensive picture of the overall threat and cyber security engineering at all levels of the BMDS, then influence the design by 1) identifying and developing Core Standards and Requirements to implement Defense-in-Depth within planned development cycles (Builds); 2) providing oversight, coordination and management of key technical requirements development, and policy-mandated responsibilities; 3) providing contract acquisition support to BMDS Elements ensuring cyber security is addressed throughout the procurement process and; 4) interfacing with the Intelligence Community to define cyber security threats relevant to the BMDS. To fulfill stated mission requirements, the program interfaces with relevant Cyber Security Engineering experts to assess requirements, documentation and cyber security system design. 4) Research, Development Acquisition (RDA) Security manages the MDA Information, Industrial, Operations Security, and Defense Critical Infrastructure Protection programs to protect acquisition, test, development, and fielding of BMDS capabilities. RDA Security conducts security reviews for all Congressional, General Accountability Office (GAO), budget, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Public Release actions; develops and coordinates Security Classification Guides (SCGs) and resolves questions regarding security classification; manages MDA Industrial Security program to develop Contract Security Classification Specifications (DD-254s) for all MDA contracts and to resolve Foreign Ownership, Control, and Influence (FOCI) issues; and conducts Information Security (INFOSEC) program reviews for all MDA offices; and conducts security inquiries as required. RDA Security also supports program offices in assessing acquisition programs to identify critical program information (CPI), recommend security measures to protect CPI; and develop Program Protection Plans. Systems Security provides planning support for BMDS deployments by coordinating site security infrastructure requirements for deploying BMDS assets with the Combatant Commanders (COCOMs) and Services and developing and coordinating site security designs to protect critical BMDS assets. RDA Security conducts the MDA Declassification Program in compliance with Executive Order 13526 (Classified National Security Information), requiring mandatory review of 25 year-old missile defense documents to ensure classified and sensitive but unclassified information is not inadvertently released into the public domain.

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Document Type: Project
Publication Date: Oct 01, 2014
Source ID: MD28_0603890C_4_0400_PB_2014

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