Program Planning and Operations
Abstract
The MDS Test Program is responsible for the following Program, Planning, and Operational activities: - Maintain a professional and diverse civilian workforce to plan and execute flight, ground, and cyber test events. - Serve as the MDA Test Interface/Liaison to the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD)(DT&E)), Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense (JFCC IMD), Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) and the Service Operational Test Agencies (OTA). - Provide MDS OTA System Team resources and funding for civilian salaries and personnel support to conduct system-level test and evaluation activities of the entire MDS portfolio. The MDS OTA Team actively participates in test planning, conducts and reports of flight and ground test evaluation activities, and conducts cyber assessments of the MDS. - Implement cyber test requirements as directed by the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2016, Pub. L. No. 114-92, Sec. 1647 (a), DOT&E, and DASD(DT&E) to include planning, coordination, and execution of Cooperative Vulnerability and Penetration Assessments and Adversarial Assessments. - Establish, maintain, and execute the MDS Test program budget. - Provide IMTP cost modeling. - Provide day-to-day Test Functional Area (TFA) management. - Provide Test organizational property accountability. - Establish and standardize Test issuance documents. - Manage test contracting and acquisition activities as well as manpower activities ensuring proper integration of contracts, support agreements; oversight and maintenance of the Test Directorate Inter/Intra-agency Acquisition Review (IAR) database. - Provide oversight and coordination of test policy guidance to ensure compliance and strategic synchronization across the Test Directorate and MDA. - Manage travel, including travel to support IMTP flight and ground test events. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2023
- Source ID
- ed1dbe4df75779ea9716d9ea991430a1