Intelligence & Security

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Major program goals for the Intelligence and Security team are: -- Ensure the Intelligence Community (IC) understands and fulfills MDA's current and future prioritized intelligence requirements; advocate BMDS test support intelligence requirements; and maintain regular interactions with the IC. -- Continue the federated approach of supporting MDA by leveraging available National and DoD Counterintelligence resources. Ensure counterintelligence products and services are fully integrated into all 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. -- Consistently and comprehensively define cybersecurity systems engineering requirements for Continental United States (CONUS) and non-CONUS based BMDS assets. Identify cybersecurity systems engineering and infrastructure intelligence requirements to focus IC collection, analysis and production to target MDA/BMDS cyber vulnerabilities. Incorporate cybersecurity engineering requirements into the BMDS systems engineering process. -- Provide cross-Agency acquisition security oversight and support for the identification and protection of Critical Program Information (CPI), and evaluation and implementation of developing Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) requirements. Provide physical security support for BMDS weapons/sensor system deployments, including Foreign Military Sales. Implement MDA's information security and declassification programs. Strengthen Test and Operations Security (OPSEC) support across the Agency. The Security and Intelligence Project captures five specific areas: Intelligence; Counterintelligence; Cybersecurity Engineering; Research, Development, and Acquisition (RDA) Security; and Threat Systems Engineering. Collectively, these efforts provide critical information regarding threat ballistic missile system capabilities; protect personnel, activities, and technology from espionage and terrorism; and identify and mitigate BMDS system vulnerabilities. 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 IC for collection, analysis and production. The Intelligence Requirements Office registers MDA's requirements with the IC, which provides data to be disseminated and archived in the MDA Intelligence Knowledge Base. The intelligence and threat changes are provided to the MDA System Engineer, who uses the information to reduce risk and improve BMDS performance against the evolving threat. This 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 Requirements allow MDA to gain access to and leverage unique IC capabilities, many of which are highly classified and require expertise to exploit. 2) The Counterintelligence (CI) Program undertakes defensive CI activities as part of an integrated DoD/National effort to detect and neutralize foreign intelligence collection efforts, espionage and International 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, the MDA CI Program: -- Conducts CI investigations, including initial inquiries into reported or suspected clandestine relationships between MDA personnel and agents of a foreign power or relationships between MDA personnel and individuals associated with international terrorist organizations; -- Conducts CI Collection Activities (CCA) to acquire information about the capabilities, intentions, and activities of foreign powers, organizations, or persons who engage in espionage, terrorism, sabotage, subversion, and clandestine intelligence activities against the United States, DoD and MDA. This includes establishing liaison relationships with U.S. and host-nation intelligence, CI and law enforcement organizations and debriefing MDA foreign travelers; -- Conducts CI analysis and production by performing research and analysis to produce assessments, analytical reports, threat advisories and other products to keep MDA apprised of current or emerging foreign intelligence concerns and international terrorism threats to MDA personnel, information, facilities and activities worldwide; -- Performs defensive CI activities, including CI Awareness Training. Provides specialized on-site support for MDA Special Access Programs (SAP), RDA programs, flight tests, and fielding/deployment activities worldwide to protect CPI, critical BMDS components, and sensitive SAP technologies/capabilities from foreign intelligence entity targeting, collection or compromise; and -- Ensures 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 MDA's ability to 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 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) RDA Security develops and implements policy for, and manages the MDA Information, Acquisition, System Protection, Declassification, Security Matrix, and Test and OPSEC programs to enable the acquisition, testing, development, and fielding of BMDS capabilities. RDA Security: -- Manages the Agency-wide Information Security (INFOSEC) program, which includes: conducting annual INFOSEC reviews; executing the Security Manager program; providing INFOSEC training for marking, classifying, and protecting classified and controlled unclassified information; performing security reviews for all Congressional, Government Accountability Office (GAO), budget, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and Public Release actions; supporting the development and coordination of Security Classification Guides (SCGs); and overseeing MDA's collateral classification management program; -- Supports program offices by identifying CPI and critical components, analyzing risk, and recommending security measures to protect CPI and the BMDS supply chain; -- Manages the Industrial Security and Acquisition Security programs to develop Contract Security Classification Specifications (DD-254s) and security content for all applicable MDA contracts and research initiatives; -- Provides planning support for BMDS development, test, and deployments by coordinating security requirements for BMDS assets internal to MDA and with the Combatant Commanders (CCMDs) and Services. Develops and coordinates BMDS and site security infrastructure requirements and designs in accordance with DoD direction to protect critical BMDS assets; and -- 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 unclassified information is not inadvertently released into the public domain. 5) The Threat Systems Engineering effort defines adversary capabilities required for BMDS design and development, 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 supports threat space allocation to specific BMDS capability increments; -- Guides missile requirements development, planning, and accreditation for BMDS ground tests and digital simulations; -- Supports development of target system specifications and guides 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 verification and validation to ensure threat missile models meet specifications and are consistent with intelligence assessments at established cut-off dates; and -- Produces threat models and scenario data for BMDS development events and establishes threat consistency across the BMDS and Elements.

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Document Type: Project
Publication Date: Oct 01, 2017
Source ID: MD28_0603890C_4_0400_PB_2017

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