BMD Enabling Programs

The Missile Defense System Information Management Systems budget project will drive the transformative modernization of the Missile Defense System's information management capabilities to include: -- Enabling rapid data-driven decision making, improved integration and collaboration, and a flexible and scalable architecture -- A cohesive, forward-thinking, Enterprise-wide Model Based Systems Engineering capability that will unify expertise, tools, and data management across all programs and build a connected ecosystem of data, digital twins, processes, and rapid capability delivery. This will also establish authoritative sources of truth across the Missile Defense system lifecycle and increase efficiency, collaboration, and innovation to build a strong foundation for the future and achieve economies of scale. -- Leveraging AI, Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA), and commercial innovations to align with Department of War guidance, expedite delivery of advanced missile defense capabilities to the warfighter, and ensure resilient, scalable, and secure operations against evolving threats. The Decision Advantage Platform provides boardroom and battlefield decision products to provide capability to the warfighter at speed and scale. This includes but is not limited to asset scheduling and readiness data to the COCOMs to support warfighter operations, as well as acquisition and programmatic decision tools to field capability. It also funds IT mission critical functions necessary for the efficient operations and safeguarding of Missile Defense System information in compliance with Department of War (DoW) policies and in keeping pace with the ever-growing cyber threat which is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face. IT is critical to the day-to-day functions of Missile Defense Agency (MDA) personnel to communicate (classified and unclassified) with each other, Congress, senior DoW and other United States Government agency personnel, Combatant Commanders, North Atlantic Treaty Organization partners, and other industry partners.

Cyber Operations supports Defense Modernization and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Chief Information Officer (CIO) priorities to fully support network command, control and communications and Cybersecurity, increase system reliability to build warfighter confidence, and address advanced cyber threats. MDA's Office of the CIO has prioritized four program topics: (1) Detect, Analyze and Mitigate Intrusions; (2) Prevent Malicious Cyber Activity; (3) Planning, Policy Development, Workforce Training & Force Management; and (4) Cybersecurity Risk Management. In order to support the prioritized program topics, MDA must implement a multi-tiered cybersecurity monitoring and risk management capability to protect critical Missile Defense System data and systems from rapidly evolving internal and external threats. The funds requested in this PE provide Missile Defense Agency's legacy and new system development the operational cybersecurity capabilities to meet President Trump's Cybersecurity Strategy for America, March 2026 mandates; specifically facilitating MDA's capability to modernize and secure government networks and critical infrastructure, sustain MDA's superiority in critical and emerging technologies, and build cyber operations talent and capacity to meet growing adversarial threat capabilities.

System Engineering & Integration (SE&I) defines, designs, tests and integrates the Missile Defense System, and provides analysis, decision support and planning activities for real-world operations to the National Command Authority, Joint Staff, Military Services, Combatant Commanders, Operational Test Agencies, Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, Allies, and others. SE&I Major Program Goals: - Plan, design, develop, integrate, and test a layered Missile Defense System that provides the required performance and global reach. - Provide System-level engineering to Missile Defense System Elements, and lead collaborative cross-Element, cross-Component engineering. - Employ digital tools to refine and automate engineering processes and technical products required for Missile Defense System development - Maintain the Capability Gap Tracker (CGT) to systematically track and prioritize the capability gaps in the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Program of Record (POR), with respect to forecasted threat. - Plan, design, develop future architecture plans into integrated engineering requirements. - Analyze architecture alternatives and new technologies, and develop requirements to respond to the proliferation of short, medium, and long-range advanced missile threats. - As technical authority for Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD), provide a consistent, disciplined systems engineering process using a multi-Service team to integrate Joint IAMD systems. - Provide System-level forums to track, assess, and improve hardware and software reliability. - Assess Missile Defense System capabilities and limitations. - Develop performance assessment requirements and evaluate new capabilities in support of fielding decisions. - Identify critical conditions and data required to develop test campaigns to demonstrate Missile Defense System performance. - Identify System issues occurring in ground and flight tests and lead the effort to resolve. - Ensure the Missile Defense System is complementary to and interoperable with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and other theater systems. - Develop and field integrated Element capabilities to improve the capability to identify lethal reentry vehicles and non-lethal threat objects.

The Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) M&S program consists of system and product planning, development, integration, and operation; threat model development, verification, and analysis; and integration and deployment of improved M&S capabilities. M&S efforts are tailored to the specific needs of the Agency's test events and to match Missile Defense System 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. 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, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Combatant Commanders, Operational Test Authority (OTAs), Director of Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E), and Allies. MDA's M&S Program executes a single, integrated, and synchronized program to manage System-level M&S development and sustainment; improve System Flight and Ground Test execution, provide a Cloud-based digital assessment venue; leverage MDA test activities to collect data to anchor models and simulations; and support Warfighter training and tactics validation. The M&S program also addresses the following key elements of 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. 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 Intelligence and Security Program provides multi-disciplinary intelligence, security, and engineering for Missile Defense System acquisition, development, test and deployment. The Intelligence and Security Major Program Goals are: - Ensure the Intelligence Community (IC) understands and fulfills the MDA's current and future prioritized intelligence requirements; advocate Missile Defense development and test intelligence requirements. - Leverage available National and Department of War (DoW) Counterintelligence resources. Ensure counterintelligence products and services are fully integrated into all Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation programs and activities to protect classified information and critical technologies and to protect MDA and Missile Defense System personnel, facilities, information and activities. - Provide cross-Agency acquisition security oversight and support for robust acquisition program protection, to include the identification and protection of Critical Program Information. Implement MDA's information security and declassification programs. Strengthen Test and Operations Security across the Agency. Manage Agency regulatory declassification and information security program. Provide physical security policy for Missile Defense System weapon/sensor deployments, including Foreign Military Sales. - Produce threat definitions and model packages, Adversary Data Packages, and Flight Test Target Requirements and Target System Performance Specifications; provide Real World Event analysis. These efforts provide critical information regarding threat missile system capabilities; protection of personnel, activities, and technology from espionage and terrorism; and identification and mitigation of Missile Defense System vulnerabilities.

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.

The Enabling Test project includes Missile Defense System test planning, execution, and post-test analysis and assessment, and the Modeling & Simulation (M&S) tools and framework required to prepare for and execute ground and flight tests. This includes test design, target requirement definition, and collaboration with the Service Operational Test Agencies (OTA) to incorporate operational test requirements into Missile Defense System events. This ensures Missile Defense System tests collect essential System data and confirm proper System operation. It also provides data to anchor system and element models and simulations for use in simulations to characterize System performance across the battle space, including areas where no live-fire-testing is performed. Resources for the planning, design, execution and management of this testing are provided in accordance with the most current version of the Integrated Master Test Plan (IMTP).

Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance ensures that the Missile Defense System and all of its elements are designed, tested and operated in a reliable, safe, and effective manner. Quality and Mission Assurance: Responsible for ensuring the reliable and effective design, test and operation of the Missile Defense System and all of its elements. Develops and ensures implementation of quality and mission assurance requirements. Mitigates quality and mission assurance risks to the lowest practical level. Provides in-plant MDA Assurance Representatives at MDA government and contractor facilities to provide quality and mission assurance oversight of contractor manufacturing and integration. Performs Quality and Mission Assurance Assessments to ensure contractual requirements, internal requirements, and industry best practices are implemented at prime contractor and lower tier suppliers. Reviews and approves all new and modified parts, materials and critical processes for Missile Defense System elements. Assess Missile Defense industrial base and determine critical manufacturing technologies. Conduct assessments of critical component supply base and update critical technologies database. Collaborate with national security space components on investment strategies for critical technologies. Develop and update engineering management tool to characterize supply chain risks. Utilize supply chain risk identification and mitigation tracking system to mitigate manufacturing supply issues for critical components. Utilize tool suite to execute proactive DMSMS risk-based management and inform risk mitigation activities. Safety: Responsible for ensuring the safe design, test and operation of the Missile Defense System and all of its elements. Develops and ensures implementation of safety requirements. Mitigates safety risks to the lowest practical level. Ensures a safe workplace for all MDA employees and contractors by implementing a Safety program. Missile Defense System Safety Officers provide on-site support at the Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 365 days a year to ensure operational safety of the Missile Defense System.