Ballistic Missile Defense Joint Warfighter Support

Joint Warfighter Support Test provides support to Missile Defense System Wargames and Exercises. Wargames and Exercises: - Support the Warfighter to plan and conduct worldwide Wargames and Exercises supporting Missile Defense System development and fielding. - Enable the Warfighter to define, test, deploy, and employ new missile defense capabilities. - Support Joint Functional Component Commander (JFCC) for Integrated Missile Defense (IMD) Missile Defense System Table Top Exercises (TTX) to facilitate the global missile defense capability and to refine the European capability concept of operations through low-fidelity demonstration Models & Simulation (M&S). - Continue test planning for Wargames and Exercises.

There are seven primary functions in Joint Warfighter Support (MD03): (1) Missile Defense Operations Support. (2) Combatant Command Integration. (3) Military Service Integration. (4) Operational Missile Defense System Verification and Validation. (5) Warfighter Training and Education Support. (6) Joint Staff Integration. (7) Reserve Integration. Detailed descriptions and accomplishments are provided in section B. Accomplishments/Planned Program.

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.

This program verifies and validates that cybersecurity and/or cybersecurity-enabled products (firewalls, data/network encryption devices, routers, Intrusion Detection Systems, etc.) used within the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) infrastructure have a current and Evaluated Assurance Level (EAL) certification and rating. They assure that validated information technology (IT) products are listed on the Department of War (DoW) Approved Products List Integrated Tracking System (APLITS). There is an additional requirement to routinely identify findings and prepare a report with recommendations. This support is required in the IT product evaluation. Activities in the Project are necessary to comply with the Federal Information Systems Modernization Act of 2014.