# Project MD32 — Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance

**Program element:** 0603890C — BMD Enabling Programs  
**Project:** MD32  
**Component:** Defense-Wide  
**Appropriation:** 0400 — RDT&E, Defense-Wide  
**Budget Activity:** 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD32  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C

## Summary

Project MD32 — Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance requests $42.4M in FY2027, 2.9% of the $1.46B requested for program element 0603890C, up 29% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request. AI SOLUTIONS is the largest named R-3 performer at $8.9M, 21% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 36.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 32.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 42.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 43.4 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 45.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 47.7 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 49.8 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603890C; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project MD32 buys

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.

**R-3 lines of work:** Support; Management Services.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| AI SOLUTIONS | 8.9 | 21% |
| NTSI | 1.2 | 2.8% |
| ARES | 0.8 | 1.8% |
| JACOBS | 0.6 | 1.4% |

> Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations. Shares need not reach 100% — unnamed and government work is in the denominator.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality, Safety & Mission Assurance | 36.8 | 32.8 | 42.4 | +29% | — |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Quality, Safety & Mission Assurance

**FY2027 planned work.** -Expand the MDA supply Chain Tool Suite SCI-DIVE and integrate with CIBAT to provide coordinated supply chain risk analyses. -Utilize tool suite to execute proactive DMSMS risk-based management and inform risk mitigation activities.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides for the expansion of the MDA Supply Chain Tool Suite SCI-DIVE, integration with CIBAT, and establishes an Agency-wide consolidated proactive risk-based DMSMS program.

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603890C project MD32 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603890C")`.

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