Intelligence & Security
Abstract
Intelligence and Security describes the MDA technical intelligence program in the following areas: Intelligence: Serves as the designated MDA liaison with the IC. Provides expertise to develop intelligence products on threat system capabilities and leverages unique IC capabilities for the benefit and advocacy of the missile defense community. Efforts include: - Provide current technical, acquisition, and cyber intelligence to the Missile Defense System across the acquisition life cycle - Characterize all adversary missile threat systems for use in Missile Defense modeling, simulation, and testing Counterintelligence: Detects, mitigates or neutralizes espionage, foreign intelligence collection activities and terrorist activities conducted for or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations, persons, or their agents directed against U.S. national security interests, or DoD/MDA and its personnel, information, material, facilities, and activities. Efforts include: - Serve as MDA liaison with law enforcement and CI organizations to report and resolve incidents involving MDA personnel, information and technologies - Conduct CI activities to detect malicious insider threat and cyber threat activities targeting MDA administrative and fire control networks, and deliver CI products to address these threats - Maintain technical surveillance countermeasures and gear to detect, identify and neutralize adversary collection platforms and capabilities used to gain unauthorized access to MDA classified and controlled unclassified information Cybersecurity Engineering: Develop designs and solutions to protect the MDA from existing and emerging cyber threats through coherent cybersecurity systems engineering. Efforts include: - Coordinate evaluation of cybersecurity capability during System tests - Develop verification and assessment strategies for System cybersecurity requirements - Implement cyber threat mitigation strategies - Update cybersecurity systems engineering policy and guidance for Missile Defense System design and acquisition to enhance resiliency against cyber threats Program Protection: Protects Missile Defense Critical Program Information, technologies, and deploying systems; develops and coordinates Security Classification Guides; and performs declassification reviews to identify equities that warrant continued protection to preserve the technological advantage of the Missile Defense System. Program Protection also coordinates MDA intelligence, counterintelligence and security for Missile Defense System test activities. Efforts include: - Perform security and policy reviews for all Agency public release and Freedom of Information Act requests. to prevent inadvertent release of sensitive Missile Defense information into the public domain - Oversee MDA program information security activities - Provide security oversight for the Agency's classified contracts - Provide dedicated on-site security and protection of Missile Defense resources and personnel at operational and test sites - Conduct continuous monitoring to determine security clearance eligibility - Assess candidate critical program information for Advanced Technology program and other MDA programs undergoing technical baseline changes; ensure critical technologies embedded in missile defense systems are not vulnerable to compromise Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- ced63ff20448f2661615e75cb631de9b
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