Ballistic Missile Defense Sensors

The Missile Defense System Radars project includes developing future Forward-based Mode Army Navy/Transportable Radar Surveillance and Control-2 (AN/TPY-2), United States Space Force (USSF) COBRA DANE, Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR), Sea Based X-Band Radar (SBX), Persistent Discrimination Radar in southern United State (U.S.), and USSF Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR) System capabilities through system engineering, software development, and testing support. Modeling and Simulation (M&S) efforts include enhanced sensor models, development of Radio Frequency scene generators, integration of simulations into the Missile Defense System M&S architecture, and Verification, Validation, and Certification of radar models. This project also funds participation and support for Missile Defense System ground and flight test campaigns and Warfighter games and exercises. This project provides the development of discrimination advanced algorithms for Missile Defense System radars to counter evolving threats. The discrimination improvement effort will develop and field integrated element capabilities to improve the Missile Defense System's ability to identify lethal and non-lethal objects. This project will continue the development of discrimination improvement midterm design and test support for Missile Defense System radars and far-term trade analysis and planning. The funds requested in this PE provide both legacy and Global Missile Defense Capability development for the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and partners. The capabilities funded by this budget request are complementary to the architecture funded by the Golden Dome Program's separate budget request and together fulfill the President's Executive Order 14186. The President's January 27, 2025, Executive Order established a goal of protecting the U.S. citizens, safeguarding critical infrastructure, and securing second-strike capability against missile attack from any adversary. This program and budget in addition to the budget requested by the Golden Dome Program Office reflects the changes necessary to protect the U.S. against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise, and other advanced missile threats.

PWS contains non-headquarters management costs in support of Missile Defense Agency (MDA) functions and activities across the entire Missile Defense System. These functions include Government Civilians and Contract Support Services. This effort provides integrity and oversight of the Missile Defense System as well as supports MDA in the development and evaluation of technologies that will respond to the changing threat. Additionally, PWS includes personnel to support global deployments performing deployment site preparation and activation, and provides facility capabilities for MDA Executing Agent locations worldwide. Other MDA wide costs include: physical and technical security; civilian drug testing; audit readiness; the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) program; legal services and settlements; travel and agency training; office, equipment, vehicle, and warehouse leases; utilities and base operations across multiple geographic locations; commercial and ancillary facility services; management of all facility aspects regardless of lifecycle stage; supplies and maintenance; compliance with statutory environmental requirements; data and unified communications support; materiel and readiness and central property management of equipment; Facilities Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization (FSRM) program (formerly Real Property Maintenance) to keep the Department's inventory of facilities in good working order; and similar operating expenses. PWS is allocated on a pro-rata basis across most Agency PEs and, therefore, fluctuates per PE by FY based on the total Agency budget in that FY.

Sustain the Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) 8510.01 Risk Management Framework (RMF) for Department of War (DoW) Information Technology (IT) requirement for the MDA and conduct Security Control Assessments (SCA) activities, analysis of validation results, risk assessments, and reviews of proposed Program Manager/Information System Security Manager (PM/ISSM) Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&M) for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Ground Sensors mission and support systems. It also includes support for external cybersecurity assessments and penetration testing of the Ground Sensors mission systems, both in laboratory developmental testing and during ground test activities, in accordance with Director, Operational Test and Evaluation directives and the Integrated Master Test Plan. It maintains the Assessment and Authorization (A&A) data repository, capturing the RMF documentation (artifacts, validation results, Cybersecurity Risk Assessment results, cybersecurity scorecard, and Authorizing Official (AO) authorization decisions) and POA&M for all MDA information systems. It positions Ground Sensors assets to complete the transition to National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 requirements (i.e. RMF 2.0) once DoW requirements and timelines are finalized. This project supports aligning, developing, and implementing an integrated Tier 2 Cyber Security Service Provider (CSSP) capability on the Ground Sensors mission systems under the DoW Cybersecurity Discipline Implementation Plan and DoDI 8530.01 Cybersecurity Activities Support to DoW Information Network Operations. Provides the monitoring, prioritization, and tracking of Cybersecurity mitigation detailed in Information Technology security POA&Ms. The activities include preparation of A&A documentation and accreditation recommendations to the MDA Senior Information Security Officer/SCA and AO. Independent Verification and Validation team actions ensure the availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation of the MDA mission, test, and administrative systems. These activities are necessary to comply with the Federal Information Security Management Act.