Ballistic Missile Defense Midcourse Defense Segment Test

Missile Defense Midcourse Defense Segment Test provides flight, ground, and cyber testing of hardware and software to demonstrate an integrated capability to counter the allocated threats. The hardware and software are tested in an integrated environment with Missile Defense System Sensors; Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications; United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) Warfighters; and national collection assets to assess and demonstrate the ability to defend the United States Homeland. Primary activities include planning, design, and execution of flight tests, ground tests, cyber tests; test resources; and program operations. Flight tests provide the opportunity to test actual hardware and software and to demonstrate Missile Defense System interoperability under operationally realistic conditions. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Program participates in integrated Missile Defense System ground tests executed in both the Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) lab environment and with deployed operational assets providing integrated performance data supporting hardware and software fielding decisions. The Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Program conducts cyber tests and participates in integrated Missile Defense System level cyber tests executed both in the HWIL lab environment and using operational assets providing performance data supporting cyber, operational resilience, and system survivability assessments. Test resources provide the infrastructure and laboratories to support the Ground Missile Defense (GMD) test program as well as day-to-day operations of the GMD test program to include support for test planning, execution, and post-event reconstruction. Program operations provide for technical and business management support of the test 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.