Intelligence & Security
Abstract
Major program goals for the Intelligence and Security team are: -- 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. 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 cybersecurity systems engineering requirements for Continental United States (CONUS) and non-CONUS based BMDS assets. Define cybersecurity systems engineering and cybersecurity infrastructure intelligence requirements to focus Intelligence Community collection, analysis and production to target MDA/BMDS cyber vulnerabilities, and incorporate cybersecurity engineering requirements into the systems engineering process. The Security and Intelligence Project captures five specific areas: 1) Intelligence 2) Counterintelligence 3) Cybersecurity Engineering 4) Research, Development, and Acquisition (RDA) Security 5) Threat Systems Engineering 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) The Intelligence Requirements Program furnishes highly classified intelligence on foreign threat ballistic missile systems to the missile defense community. This program provides a clearing house for MDA's requirements to be presented to the Intelligence Community for collection, analysis and production. The Intelligence Requirements Office gains an understanding of all MDA intelligence requirements, registers these requirements with the Intelligence Community, who in turn provides resulting data to be disseminated and archived in the MDA Intelligence Knowledge Base. Resulting intelligence and threat changes are provided to the MDA System Engineer, who uses the threat data to reduce risk and improve BMDS performance against the evolving threat. 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 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, Counterintelligence: -- Conducts CI Investigations: Initial inquiries into reported or suspected clandestine relationships between MDA personnel and agents of a foreign power or international terrorist organizations. -- Performs CI Collection: Systematically collects intelligence information via liaison relationships with U.S. and host-nation intelligence, CI and law enforcement organizations and debriefings of MDA foreign travelers. -- Performs CI Analysis and Production: Produces 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. -- Provides CI Functional Services: Conducts defensive CI activities in support of MDA programs (including Special Access Programs (SAP) and Research, Development, and Acquisition (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. -- Ensures that MDA's insider threat program is compliant with the minimum standards established by Executive Order 13587 (White House Memorandum on National Insider Threat Policy and Minimum Standards for Executive Branch Insider Threat Programs) and DoD Counterintelligence Policies. 3) The Cybersecurity Engineering Program provides coherent cybersecurity systems engineering policy and guidance to BMDS system design and acquisition, enhancing BMDS resiliency against existing and emerging cyber threats. It develops and coordinates near-term and long-term engineering changes to the BMDS that advance the confidentiality, integrity, and availability and counter cyber threats posed by our adversaries. To fulfill this role, the BMDS Cybersecurity Engineering program works with Intelligence Requirements and Counterintelligence to obtain a comprehensive picture of the overall cyber threat for impacts to the BMDS design; identifies mitigation strategies and maps them to established National Security Systems (NSS) and DoD policies; and then influences the design by: -- Identifying updates to the Core Standards and Requirements to implement Defense-in-Depth within planned development cycles (Builds); -- Providing oversight, coordination and management of cybersecurity technical requirements development and policy-mandated responsibilities; -- Coordinating evaluation of cybersecurity capability during BMDS tests; and -- Assessing the validated cyber threat intelligence for impact to the BMDS design. To fulfill mission requirements, the program interfaces with relevant Cybersecurity Systems Engineering experts to assess requirements, documentation and cybersecurity system design and assessment criteria. 4) Research, Development, and Acquisition (RDA) Security manages the MDA Information, Industrial, Acquisition Operations Security programs to protect acquisition, test, development, and fielding of BMDS capabilities. RDA Security: -- Conducts security reviews for all Congressional, Government Accountability Office (GAO), budget, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and Public Release actions; develops and coordinates Security Classification Guides (SCGs) and resolves questions regarding security classification; -- Manages the MDA Industrial Security program to develop Contract Security Classification Specifications (DD-254s) for all classified MDA contracts and to resolve Foreign Ownership, Control, and Influence (FOCI) issues; and -- Conducts Information Security (INFOSEC) staff assistance and program reviews for all MDA offices and security inquiries as required to identify and resolve security deficiencies that would place BMDS information at risk. RDA Security also supports program offices in assessing acquisition programs to identify critical program information (CPI) and critical components, analyze risk, and recommend security measures to protect CPI and the BMDS supply chain. Systems Protection provides planning support for BMDS deployments by coordinating security requirements for deploying BMDS assets with the Combatant Commanders (COCOMs) and Services and developing and coordinating site security infrastructure designs in accordance with direction from the Deputy Secretary of Defense to protect critical BMDS assets. RDA Security conducts the MDA Declassification Program in compliance with Executive Order 13526 (Classified National Security Information), which requires 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. 5) The Threat Systems Engineering effort provides consistent definitions of adversary capabilities required for BMDS development and design, and maintains and updates the Agency-wide threat documentation to ensure the threat parameters used for BMD System performance predictions, analyses, design, verification, and assessment are correct and consistent. Threat Systems Engineering also provides, develops, coordinates, and baselines targets and countermeasures requirements to define target capabilities that support BMDS flight test objectives. Threat Systems Engineering: -- Defines the BMDS threat space and support threat space allocation to specific BMDS capability increments. -- Guides missile requirements development, planning, and accreditation for BMDS ground and digital simulation tests -- Supports development of target system specifications; and guide targets requirements development, planning, and certification for BMDS flight tests -- Analyzes flight test target performance relative to threat intelligence assessments to support target system verification and certification -- Conducts threat model verification and validation to verify missile model meets specifications and is consistent with intelligence assessments at established Intel-Cut-Off Dates (ICOD). -- Produces threat models and scenario data for BMDS development events and establishes threat consistency across the BMDS and Elements.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- MD28_0603890C_4_0400_PB_2016
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