Modeling & Simulation
Abstract
MDA's Modeling and Simulation (M&S) program develops system-level models, frameworks, truth, simulations, and operational representations as missile defense technologies continually advance and the threat changes, and evaluates performance of the Elements, Components, and overall Missile Defense System for verification, validation and accreditation purposes. MDA's M&S program provides a cost effective means to assess and examine Missile Defense performance space beyond what can be physically tested under current test range conditions and within the Agency's fiscal constraints. M&S future concept simulation activities provide the capability to design and develop technologies to hedge against future missile threats. MDA's M&S systems and products provide analysis, decision-making, and planning capabilities for Real-World Operations to inform the National Command Authority, Joint Staff, Military Services, NATO, Combatant Commanders (CCMDs), Operational Test Authority (OTAs), Director of Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E), and Allies. The strategy of MDA's M&S Program is 1) to execute a single, integrated, and synchronized program to manage M&S development and sustainment, 2) to improve System Flight and Ground Test execution and provide digital assessment venue, 3) to leverage MDA test activities to collect data to anchor M&S, and 4) to perform Warfighter training and tactics validation. The strategy also incorporates key elements to address DOT&E assessments; Ensure that future M&S architectures are composable and flexible, and simplify the integration process to conserve resources and improve capabilities; Ensure that future M&S architectures incorporate and require the use of consistent truth representations (phenomenology, lethality, environmental factors, threat simulations, etc.); Improve cross-organizational system engineering processes to optimize requirements generation and ensure the inclusion of all stakeholders; Develop refined M&S accreditation criteria between MDA and the OTA; Enable top-down systems engineering and management of agency-wide M&S federations. MDA's M&S Program consists of system and product planning, development, integration, and operation; threat model development, verification, and analysis; and integration and deployment of MDA's distributed real-time Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) and digital M&S simulation capabilities. Models and simulations are tailored to the specific needs of the Agency's test events and to match MDS components in their various stages of development, ranging from low-to-medium fidelity analyses supporting concept definitions studies, to high-fidelity models used to support engineering level activities. MDA validates and accredits System-level models and simulations by anchoring them to ground and flight test events, per the Integrated Master Test Plan (IMTP), to enable accurate and comprehensive assessments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2023
- Source ID
- MD31_0603890C_4_0400_PB_2023
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