Ballistic Missile Defense Command and Control, Battle Management & Communication

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. C2BMC provides incremental development, deployment, and operational support of C2BMC capabilities required for Missile Defense System planning, situational awareness, sensor management, and engagement coordination. As the integrating element of the Missile Defense System, the C2BMC Program of Record is foundational to all future development and supports annual capability deliveries to support Missile Defense System-Next. C2BMC delivers capabilities incrementally with each software build (named as a Spiral or Capability Build), adding to or enhancing the capability of the previous build. C2BMC incremental delivery of Spiral 8.2 provides critical Homeland Defense for increased Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) battlespace, improved threat tracking using multiple sensors communicating via Link-16, enhanced sensor tasking to meet track quality and discrimination timeliness requirements, Space Domain Awareness (SDA) tasking support, and improved cyber capabilities. Enhanced Homeland Defense also integrates the Ballistic Missile Defense System Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Architecture (BOA) with the Missile Defense System to enhance system level missile-tracking capabilities through earlier cueing of radars and weapon systems.

Command and Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) Development Support provides operations engineering, integrated logistics, warfighter integration, deployment, and disposal of the current operational system and/or systems fielded in United States Strategic Command, United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), United States European Command (USEUCOM), United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), and U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM) and the operation of the C2BMC Control Center. This activity provides continuous support of the development, deployment, sustainment of the C2BMC training systems, and updates training material to stay current with fielded capabilities.

Command and Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) Test supports system flight and ground testing, wargames, and exercises as detailed in the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Integrated Master Test Plan (IMTP) to ensure C2BMC capabilities delivered are consistent with the Prioritized Capabilities List and are interoperable with other Missile Defense System components. MDA gains efficiencies and minimizes laboratory resource requirements (footprint, personnel, and hardware) by utilizing the C2BMC Test Facility and the Persistent Infrared Testbed (PIT), formerly Overhead Persistent InfraRed Capabilities Lab (OCL), test infrastructure as the laboratory environment supporting System Test, Development, and Sustainment. For System Ground and Flight Test, the labs are used for pre-test analysis, test execution, and post-test analysis. For Development, the labs are utilized for software verification and validation testing and system integration testing. For Sustainment, the labs are used to assist with root cause determination for issues discovered on the fielded system and validation of any required software patches.

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.

Command and Control, Battle Management & Communication (C2BMC) Cyber Operations sustain the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Security Controls Assessments/Controls Validation Testing activities, analysis of validation results, risk assessments, and reviews of proposed Program Manager/Information System Security Manager Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms) and Cybersecurity Tools for MDA C2BMC mission systems. Activities in this Project are necessary to comply with the Federal Information Systems Modernization Act.