Ballistic Missile Defense Sensor Test

This project provides activities for planning, analysis, and execution of Missile Defense System flight test events, including pre-and post-test ground testing (e.g. Digital and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) System Pre-Mission Tests and System Federation Validation Events). Sensor Test provides planning, analysis, and execution in accordance with the Ground Test Concept of Operations (CONOPS) supporting the Ground Test level of effort concept for Missile Defense System system-level ground tests identified in the IMTP. Test infrastructure funding provides for HWIL labs, Mission Operation Center/Mission Support Center (MOC/MSC), and program management required to operate and maintain a flight and ground test capability.

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.