Aegis BMD Test

The Aegis BMD Test program element is responsible for the planning, design, and execution of developmental and operational flight, ground, and cybersecurity testing of Aegis Based Defense hardware and software to characterize and validate joint deployable Missile Defense and Navy Integrated Air and Missile Defense capability to counter the allocated threats and ensure that these capabilities are operationally effective, suitable, and survivable upon transfer to the warfighter. Aegis Based Defense hardware and software are integrated into existing Aegis Weapon System baselines, Standard Missile (SM)-3 interceptor, and Navy's SM-6 interceptor. MDA works with the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, the Navy's Operational Test and Evaluation Force, industry partners, and the Navy Warfare Centers in the designing, planning, safety, readiness, execution, data collection, pre-mission and post-mission analysis, and reporting. The system pre-flight predictions provide confidence in test execution by predicting element performance and exercising element interfaces. The system post-flight reconstruction replicates the Missile Defense System configuration, actual environmental conditions, and target dynamics observed in flight to anchor Modeling and Simulation (M&S) results. Aegis BMD participation in Hardware-in-the-Loop and integrated MDA level ground tests supports the operational capability fielding decisions.

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; therefore, fluctuates per PE by FY based on the total Agency budget in that FY.