BMD Enabling Programs

Protects Missile Defense information, Critical Program Information, technologies, and deploying systems; develops and coordinates Security Classification Guides; and performs declassification reviews to identify equities that warrant continued protection to preserve the technological advantage of the Missile Defense System. Program Protection also coordinates MDA intelligence, counterintelligence and security for Missile Defense System test activities. Efforts include: - Perform reviews required for all Agency public release, security classification, and Freedom of Information Act and Mandatory Declassification Reviews to ensure sensitive Missile Defense information is not inadvertently released into the public domain. - Oversee MDA program information security activities. - Provide security oversight for the Agency's classified contracts. - Provide dedicated on-site security and protection of Missile Defense resources and personnel at operational sites to ensure security protection coverage of Missile Defense System mission operations and test assets. - Perform systematic Declassification reviews on historical Agency information to prevent unauthorized disclosures due to automatic declassification requirements. - Identify and integrate Security requirements for overseas sites with existing or planned missile defense weapons or sensors to ensure protection of deployed sites. - Provide effective physical protection to low density/high demand emerging Warfighter capability. - Continue continuous monitoring to determine security clearance eligibility. - Assess candidate critical program information for Advanced Technology program and other MDA programs undergoing technical baseline changes; ensure critical technologies embedded in missile defense systems are not vulnerable to compromise. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each Fiscal year (FY) are as follows:

Intelligence and Security describes the MDA technical intelligence program in the following areas: Intelligence: Serves as the designated MDA liaison with the IC. Provides expertise to develop intelligence products on threat system capabilities and leverages unique IC capabilities for the benefit and advocacy of the missile defense community. Ensures horizontal integration of IC-produced and validated intelligence across the acquisition lifecycle and engineering process for MDA programs and functions, while acting as the central authoritative broker for MDA intelligence requirements with the IC. Efforts include: - Define all MDA intelligence requirements for the Intelligence Community to support Missile Defense System design, development, test and deployment. - Provide current technical, acquisition, and cyber intelligence to the Missile Defense System across the acquisition life cycle. - Maintain and provide IC-produced adversary missile threat systems for use in Missile Defense modeling, simulation, and testing. Counterintelligence: Detects, mitigates or neutralizes espionage, foreign intelligence collection activities and terrorist activities conducted for or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations, persons, or their agents directed against U.S. national security interests, or DoD/MDA and its personnel, information, material, facilities, and activities. Efforts include: - Serve as MDA liaison with law enforcement and CI organizations to report and resolve incidents involving MDA personnel, information and technologies. - Integrate CI products, services, and defensive CI activities into Missile Defense System research, development and acquisition programs and associated test and evaluation activities to protect Critical Program Information, technologies and capabilities from adversary targeting/compromise. - Conduct CI research, analysis and production to produce CI threat products that address adversary, cybersecurity, and international terrorist threats to MDA personnel, programs, facilities, IT systems, and activities worldwide. - Maintain technical surveillance countermeasures and gear to detect, identify and neutralize adversary collection platforms and capabilities used to gain unauthorized access to MDA classified and controlled unclassified information. Cybersecurity Engineering: Develop designs and solutions to protect the MDA from existing and emerging cyber threats through coherent cybersecurity systems engineering. Efforts include: - Coordinate evaluation of cybersecurity capability during System tests. - Update cybersecurity systems engineering policy and guidance for Missile Defense System design and acquisition to enhance resiliency against cyber threats. Program Protection: Protects Missile Defense Critical Program Information, technologies, and deploying systems; develops and coordinates Security Classification Guides; and performs declassification reviews to identify equities that warrant continued protection to preserve the technological advantage of the Missile Defense System. Program Protection also coordinates MDA intelligence, counterintelligence and security for Missile Defense System test activities. Efforts include: - Perform reviews for all Agency public release, Freedom of Information Act requests, and mandatory Declassification reviews to prevent inadvertent release of sensitive Missile Defense information into the public domain. - Conduct continuous monitoring to determine security clearance eligibility. - Assess candidate critical program information for Advanced Technology program and other MDA programs undergoing technical baseline changes; ensure critical technologies embedded in missile defense systems are not vulnerable to compromise. - Manage implementation of and support MDA Operation Security (OPSEC) program activities and provide OPSEC policy. - Manage MDA Information Security activities and provide security policy guidance for the Agency and Agency classified contracts. - Perform systematic Declassification reviews on historical Agency information to prevent unauthorized disclosures as part of the automatic declassification process. - Support program oversight for and management of Security requirements for existing or planned overseas sites with missile defense weapons or sensors. - Manage Program Protection Plans for Advanced Technology programs and other MDA programs to ensure critical technologies embedded in missile defense systems are not vulnerable to compromise. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Provides IT operations, support and maintenance (24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year) to over 10,500 MDA worldwide users (classified and unclassified) executing the Missile Defense System RDT&E mission. Services include Integrated Service Desk support (Help Desk and Client Support Services); management of hardware and software maintenance and licensing; and monitoring network activity to ensure users comply with DoD policies for the proper use of information systems. Services also include printing and copying; email and file; directory and authentication services. Includes investments in equipment at end-of-life to comply with Federal and DoD mandated cybersecurity policies. Plans, engineers and implements sustainment projects for common-use IT services and business systems consistent with the IT architecture road map. Provides life-cycle management of over 190,000 IT assets including IT procurement, receiving, shipping/transportation, warehousing, transfers and disposal using the Defense Property Accountability System. Increase Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System capability to provide connectivity and interoperability with intelligence community via Common Operating Environment. Deliver Development Security Operations (DEVSECOPS) software services for continuous improvement and development to the Agency in an Agile methodology to improve efficiencies and reduce redundancies. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Provides for the developmental/specialty engineering and operational strategies and concepts; planning, design, implementation and maintenance for MDA RDT&E SPPN. SPPN consists of Digital Transformation (Cloud), Model Based Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering Eco System, Data Analytics, Federated Identity, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Wide Area Network/Local Area Network/Software Defined Networking, and Data Centers. SPPN also helps sustain core communications distribution services across the MDA Enterprise and includes investments in equipment at end-of-life to comply with Federal and DoD mandated cybersecurity policies. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

PWS contains non-headquarters management costs in support of 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 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; the FSRM program 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. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance ensures that the Missile Defense System and all of its elements are designed, tested and operated in a reliable, safe, and effective manner. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each fiscal year (FY) are as follows:

This activity includes network defense and Information System Security Manager activities for MDA Engineering. Specific tasks include: - Conduct Cybersecurity/information assurance engineering and architecture planning for Engineering information technology systems. - Plan and test the information assurance controls for Engineering systems. - Implement cyber resiliency system engineering principles to build upon protections provided by the Risk Management Framework approach. - Conduct Controls Validation Testing of systems and provide Plan of Action and Milestones to mitigate information assurance deficiencies. - Conduct annual information assurance reviews to assess compliance in implementing and maintaining information assurance controls. - Perform cybersecurity upgrades as needed to MDA Engineering systems to be in compliance with DoD mandates. - Execute System-level Supply Chain and Cyber Risk Management program. - Perform engagements with MDA DIB partners to detect and increase understanding of cyber threats. -- Conduct cybersecurity consultations, sensor/security event log analysis, and cyber threat analysis to improve DIB partners cybersecurity posture and enhance the protection of MDA critical information. - Continue MDA Insider Threat Mitigation Team efforts, to include User Activity Monitoring. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Missile Defense System M&S includes Core M&S development and sustainment of Frameworks, Core Truth Models, and Simulations and Tools. M&S Frameworks: Develop and implement OSF upgrades to incorporate advanced tracking, discrimination, engagement and associated upper tier debris mitigation capabilities, as well as other requirements and capabilities to meet MDA's evolving M&S Enterprise needs. Includes: - Perform testing and integration of Core Truth Model capabilities into the OSF framework. - Develop, sustain and enhance framework, other M&S tools, and products to maintain capabilities to support stakeholders and to keep pace with evolving requirements to support testing venues. - Develop plans, procedures and documentation for scheduled events including wargames and Combatant Command Exercises and the Distributed, Focused and Integrated ground test events as presented in the IMTP; provide event architecture integration and checkout of wargames. - Perform regular maintenance and critical repairs of hardware and software, to include framework integration. - Maintain the M&S Integration and Development Laboratories for Element models and simulations; maintain venue for stakeholders to conduct early M&S integration efforts to identify and resolve issues. - Perform threat development in support of framework requirements. Core Truth Models: Provide consistent and common Phenomenology, Lethality, Environment, Communications, and Threat models for Missile Defense Subsystem development and M&S venues utilized in test events and wargaming exercises. Includes: - Implement next generation truth representations for signatures and lethality to address advanced Missile Defense System capability needs for tracking, discrimination and engagement. - Maintain legacy truth representations (e.g., Parametric Endoatmospheric-Exoatmospheric Lethality Simulation, Kinetic Intercept Debris Distribution and Optical Signatures Code/Optical Signature Inline Generator) until fully transitioned. - Support integration of all applicable CTM functions into the OSF framework. - Deliver CTM Toolkit for integrated truth representations across the M&S enterprise. - Produce and deliver high quality, credible, and cost-effective Threat Data Products (Integrated Threat Packages). - Deliver updated vehicle characteristics during flight utilizing mature production processes. - Produce IR Hardbody data for Ballistic Missile Defense System OPIR Architecture. - Provide validation and verification evidence for RF and IR signature models to support accreditation decisions. M&S Simulations and Tools: Develop and sustain MDA M&S tools to support Missile Defense performance assessments, Warfighter events, engineering studies/analyses, digital transformation, and International Simulation events. Includes: - Deliver integrated architecture instantiations of the Missile Defense System to support Performance Assessments and integration of new capabilities into the Operational Capability Baseline. - Integrate, test, and verify the M&S enterprise supporting System-level testing, assessment, exercises, and wargaming, including testing infrastructure. - Integrate, test, functionally qualify, and deliver M&S tools and complex test architectures to provide system test capabilities to support MDA IMTP based test events, wargames, and exercises. - Provide simulation capability for System and Element M&S development laboratories. - Provide Event Integration Support for non-MDA Missile Defense component and weapon system models for M&S, threat, and Element developmental integration activities. - Provide M&S benchmarking/integration, documentation and coordination; sustain, integrate and execute ground tests, and exercises/wargames. - Provide communications emulation (Multicast TADIL-J, Satellite TADIL-J, and Link-16) and network analysis support via the Tactical Communications Environment Segment for M&S, threat, and Element developmental integration activities. - Perform operational planning for planned Missile Defense System assessment events. - Provide digital representations of Missile Defense System elements/components for wargames, conceptual planning, visualizations, training/orientation, M&S demonstrations, and the Warfighter's Modification & Fielding Requirements List for exercises and training. - Implement MDASim architecture requirements and emerging capability requirements to adapt to growing distributed event requirements. - Sustain the MDST and related tools to pace fielded OPIR Architectures in support of Warfighter training and exercise events, and Element development engineering. - Provide software operations/maintenance support to the Extended Air Defense Simulation for use in Warfighter exercises, training venues, and Combatant Command planning tools. - Provide, maintain, and operate a secure M&S execution infrastructure for digital system simulations. - Upgrade models and develop new designs or software as required to support System simulations. - Provide threat representations (trajectories, radar cross sections, and signatures data) for use in real-world events, simulations, exercises, wargames, and test and evaluation activities across the Department of Defense. - Develop products that meet digital and HWIL requirements and allow M&S participation across multiple intended uses. - Update and provide new M&S capabilities to support development of new Missile Defense System assets. - Explore emerging technologies for increased efficiencies in design, development, and analysis, to include digital transformation. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

This effort funds Missile Defense System Enterprise-wide M&S improvements to enhance test capabilities. This effort designs and develops simulation capabilities that provide assessment data (supplemental to Ground- and Flight tests) in areas that those venues cannot address. Digital improvements enhance predictive pre-mission analysis. HWIL improvements address accreditation and assessment limitations in simulation complexity and integration times. This effort ensures consistent truth data representation, implements standard framework interfaces, and provides common data formats to correct ground test simulation inadequacies in threat uncertainty and debris modeling. Accomplishing these improvements includes the following: - Execute agile software development of incremental versions for continuous deliveries of enhanced capabilities. - Conduct Model Based Systems Engineering for requirements analysis, functional analysis, design and implementation. - Conduct continuous integration, test and verification of incremental Element software versions. - Conduct continuous developmental checkout of incremental Element software builds. - Produce M&S data for Missile Defense System Increment builds. - Examine use of new technologies (including Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/data analytics/cloud computing) to implement improvements to M&S applications. - Assess and implement courses of action for advanced and emerging capabilities as appropriate. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

The Core Truth Model (CTM) program provides consistent and common Phenomenology, Lethality, Environment, Communications, and Threat models for Missile Defense Subsystem development and M&S venues utilized in test events and wargaming exercises. The CTM efforts are critical in the assessment of all Missile Defense capability deliveries. The following actions are required on a continuing basis: - Implement next generation truth representations for signatures and lethality to address advanced Missile Defense System capability needs for tracking, discrimination and engagement. - Maintain legacy truth representations (e.g., Parametric Endoatmospheric-Exoatmospheric Lethality Simulation, Kinetic Intercept Debris Distribution and Optical Signatures Code/Optical Signature Inline Generator) until fully transitioned. - Support integration of all applicable CTM functions into the OSF framework. - Deliver CTM Toolkit for integrated truth representations across the M&S enterprise. - Produce and deliver high quality, credible, and cost-effective Threat Data Products (Integrated Threat Packages). - Deliver updated vehicle characteristics during flight utilizing mature production processes. - Produce infrared (IR) Hardbody data for Ballistic Missile Defense System OPIR Architecture. - Provide validation and verification evidence for radio frequency (RF) and IR signature models to support accreditation decisions.

The following actions are required on a continuing basis to accomplish the OSF mission: - Develop and implement OSF upgrades to incorporate advanced tracking, discrimination, engagement and associated upper tier debris mitigation capabilities, as well as other requirements and capabilities to meet MDA's evolving M&S enterprise needs. - Perform testing and integration of Core Truth Model capabilities into the OSF framework. - Develop, sustain and enhance framework, other M&S tools, and products to maintain capabilities to support stakeholders and to keep pace with evolving requirements to support testing venues. - Develop plans, procedures and documentation for scheduled events including wargames and Combatant Command Exercises and the Distributed, Focused and Integrated ground test events as presented in the IMTP; provide event architecture integration and checkout of wargames. - Perform regular maintenance and critical repairs of hardware and software. - Maintain the M&S Integration and Development Laboratories for Element models and simulations; maintain venue for stakeholders to conduct early M&S integration efforts and identification of issues prior to event architecture integration to support system development.

This activity funds the development and sustainment of digital products and the architecture framework, and delivery/maintenance of infrastructure for Missile Defense performance assessments, Warfighter events, engineering studies/analyses, and International Simulation events. The following actions are required on a continuing basis: Event Integration/Support Operations: - Deliver integrated architecture instantiations of the Missile Defense System to support Performance Assessments and integration of new capabilities into the Operational Capability Baseline. - Integrate, test, and verify the M&S enterprise supporting System-level testing, assessment, exercises, and wargaming, including testing infrastructure. - Integrate, test, functionally qualify, and deliver M&S tools and complex test architectures to provide system test capabilities to support MDA IMTP based test events, wargames, and exercises. - Provide simulation capability for System and Element M&S development laboratories. - Provide Event Integration Support for non-MDA Missile Defense component and weapon system models for M&S, threat, and Element developmental integration activities. - Provide M&S benchmarking/integration, documentation and coordination; sustain, integrate and execute ground tests, and exercises/wargames. - Provide communications emulation (Multicast Tactical Digital Information Link (TADIL-J), Satellite TADIL-J, and Link-16) and network analysis support via the Tactical Communications Environment Segment for M&S, threat, and Element developmental integration activities. - Perform operational planning for planned Missile Defense System assessment events. - Conduct M&S system integration and verification and conduct developmental integration testing. M&S Operations: - Provide digital representations of Missile Defense System elements/components in support of CCMD and International wargames, conceptual planning, visualizations, training/orientation, M&S demonstrations, and the Warfighter's Modification & Fielding Requirements List for exercises and training. - Implement Missile Defense Advanced Simulation (MDASim) architecture requirements and emerging capability requirements to adapt to growing distributed event requirements. - Sustain the Missile Defense Space Warning Tool (MDST) and related tools to pace fielded Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Architectures in support of Warfighter training and exercise events, and Element development engineering. - Provide software operations/maintenance support to the Extended Air Defense Simulation for use in Warfighter exercises, training venues, and Combatant Command planning tools. - Provide, maintain, and operate a secure M&S execution infrastructure for digital system simulations. - Upgrade models and develop new designs or software as required to support System simulations. - Provide threat representations (trajectories, radar cross sections, and signatures data) for use in real-world events, simulations, exercises, wargames, and test and evaluation activities across the Department of Defense. - Develop products that meet digital and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) requirements and allow M&S participation across multiple intended uses. - Update and provide new M&S capabilities to support development of new Missile Defense System assets.

This activity provides the integrated program life cycle planning and requirements definition of all Missile Defense System M&S models and capabilities to enable assessment of capability deliveries. M&S capability development executes an integrated, synchronized program to manage M&S development in support of Missile Defense System development, testing, and assessment. The following actions are required on a continuing basis to accomplish the M&S life cycle planning and requirements definition mission: - Execute M&S planning, development, framework and test integration; core truth model development; threat model development and data production, verification, and analysis; and integration and deployment of improved capabilities. - Tailor models and simulations to the specific needs of the Agency's test events; match Missile Defense System components in their various stages of development or sustainment as required for the test venue. -- Produce capability documents and specifications for M&S product development to enable digital assessments, System flight and ground tests, training events, exercises, wargames, concept evaluation and development engineering. -- Maintain traceability between the M&S Systems Requirements Documents and M&S product development. -- Conduct M&S integration, testing and level verification per the M&S System Requirements Document and Concept of Operations. - Support Missile Defense System- and element-level engineering, including M&S planning, assessment, and requirements definition, and performing developmental integration activities. - Support MDA response to export requests for M&S software and technical data to nations or international organizations. - Participate in Technical Interchange Meetings and provide support for bilateral agreements with allies and partners. - Support system engineering capability trades for all Missile Defense System capability deliveries. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each fiscal year (FY) are as follows:

Provide FRCS program oversight to include policies, procedures, plans, reports and budgets to support agency FRCS. - Systems development, inventory, assessment, mitigation and sustainment in accordance with DoD Instruction 8500.01 Cybersecurity and DoD Instruction 8510.01 RMF throughout the life cycle of each FRCS. - Manage the cybersecurity activities to protect the FRCS, including vulnerability assessment and management, malware protection, information system continuous monitoring, cyber incident handling, and auditing to detect, deter, and mitigate insider threats, in accordance with DoD Instruction 8530.01 Cybersecurity Activities Support to DoD Information Network Operations. - Oversee the development of FRCS in facilities to ensure cybersecurity is designed and built into the system in accordance with Unified Facilities Criteria 4-010-06 Cybersecurity Of Facility-Related Control Systems to reduce cybersecurity risk and ensure compliance with applicable National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53 Rev. 5 security controls. - Manage the training and development of the FRCS cybersecurity workforce to ensure all personnel are qualified to perform assigned cybersecurity duties in accordance with DoD Directive 8140.01 Cyberspace Workforce Management. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Review current Cybersecurity Policies and coordinate with MDA Missile Defense System Programs to ensure all applicable Cybersecurity clauses are included into MDA contracts with MDA Industry partners in the DIB to ensure protection of Missile Defense System Controlled Unclassified Information. Resource Government Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Assessment Teams to conduct CMMC Level 3 assessments on identified MDA Tier 1 contracts. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Provide Defensive Cyber Operations activities related to Computer Emergency Response (CERT), Tier 2 Cybersecurity Service Provider (CSSP), and Tier 3 Local Control Centers; manage and monitor system vulnerabilities, SEIM tools, and user activities; conduct threat hunting and forensic analysis, review and analyze content of compromised systems, and identify and implement mitigations and/or corrective actions. Recurring activities include: - Manage and assess RMF controls on all MDA mission, test, and common-use IT systems to ensure secure operations in accordance with DoD cybersecurity directives and instructions; analyze and report residual risk and proposed Missile Defense System monitoring and mitigation; identify vulnerabilities through application testing and monthly cybersecurity vulnerability audits; track implementation status of applicable Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts, Bulletins and Technical Advisories. - Maintain MDA and Missile Defense System CSSP - CERT as a fully accredited Tier II CSSP in accordance with CJCS Instruction 6510.01F, CJCS Manual 6510.01B, DoD Instruction 8530.01, and the DoD Cybersecurity Discipline Implementation Plan; conduct CSSP protect, detect, respond, and sustain services for all MDA Common-use IT Services, MDA Mission and test networks and enclaves; perform network security monitoring of all MDA subscriber networks and enclaves. - Conduct system forensic analysis, review content of compromised system, document files and data, and identify tactics, techniques and procedures used by an attacker to gain access; identify, recommend, and execute modifications to existing Missile Defense Agency tactics, techniques and procedures on order to counter new cybersecurity threats as directed. In support of these activities, MDA must provide and manage funds for the following: contractor labor, hardware, and software; Permanent Change of Station; travel; contractor Advisory & Assistance Services support; toolset operations and maintenance costs for continuous monitoring within the Tier 2 CSSP, and compliance investments in the form of projects to fulfill downward-directed orders to Tier 3 Local Control Centers. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Provides advanced cyber capability to include development and support to DoD directed cybersecurity measures (e.g., Zero Trust, Security Information and Event Management tools); identifies new cybersecurity technologies to promote and maintain the Agency cyber risk posture; manage engineering, architecture design, tool selection, and integration responsibilities. Provide hardware, software, and necessary licenses for cybersecurity tools; manage the cybersecurity business portal. Plans and implements ArcSight SIEM tool replacement in support of current and future continuous monitoring efforts. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Provide Cyberspace Mission Support activities related to MDA cyber training, policies, and procedures; provide support to the Warfighter and OGAs (e.g. Joint Cyber Cell / Defense Industrial Base (DIB) / Cyber Personnel Training and Certification Management). Planning, Policy Development, Workforce Training & Force Management includes: - Develop, document, provide, and maintain Agency level cybersecurity policies, Standard Operating Instructions, and Procedures to incorporate evolving cybersecurity capability requirements under the Risk Management Framework (RMF). Maintain an interface with the MDA Missile Defense System Network Operations Support Center and the Missile Defense System elements. Integrate cybersecurity requirements into the Missile Defense System Warfighter Involvement Process. Ensure effective cyber secure Missile Defense Systems are delivered to the Warfighter. - Manage the Cyberspace Workforce Management Program to certify Cybersecurity professionals and report compliance in accordance with FISMA and DoD Directive 8140.01 (Cyberspace Workforce Management), achieving the DoD certification goal; report Cybersecurity Risk Assessments, Primary RMF artifacts. - Provide collection and analysis tools that support vulnerability and cyber warfare attack reporting to the MDA CIO, MDA leadership, and U.S. Cyber Command. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Provide all Risk Management activities related to Information Systems Security Manager and Security Control Assessor roles and responsibilities to include the development, implementation, assessment, testing, and management of cybersecurity, resiliency, and survivability for MDA IT systems / networks and associated remote sites. This effort includes DoD-mandated Zero Trust re-architecture of the Agency's security framework for Enterprise networks. Recurring Activities for Preventing Malicious Cybersecurity Activity: - Develop and maintain a current Cybersecurity risk and residual risk assessment of the Missile Defense Systems leveraging threat identification and detection, threat monitoring, and vulnerability mitigation tools and strategies; implementing technology protections to improve the cybersecurity posture of the Missile Defense System and prevent unauthorized access to MDA Information Systems; manage the cybersecurity risk for all MDA systems, projects, and connections. - Develop and implement a risk-based approach to cybersecurity assessments, ensuring resiliency and survivability support operational objectives. Provide cybersecurity efficiencies by incorporating and managing cyber risk for Development Security Operations tools and processes. - Provides advanced cyber capability to include development and support to DoD directed cybersecurity measures (e.g., Zero Trust, Security Information Event Management (SIEM) tools); identifies new cybersecurity technologies to promote and maintain the Agency cyber risk posture; manage engineering, architecture design, tool selection, and integration responsibilities. Provide hardware, software, and necessary licenses for cybersecurity tools; manage the cybersecurity business portal. Plans and implements ArcSight SIEM tool replacement in support of current and future continuous monitoring efforts. In support of these activities, MDA must provide and manage funds for Software Update Services refresh, prime contractor labor, hardware, and software, and advisory and assistance services contractor assessment team support. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Provides for the management, operation, and maintenance of enterprise business applications for the MDA community to access and share various sources of available data, information, and knowledge and enable improved organization, retrieval, manipulation, and storage. Operate and maintain seven Defense Business Systems that meet the reporting requirements of Title 10 United States Code section 2222; these include Electronic Learning Management System, Human Resource Tracking System/Personnel Tracking System, Task Management Tool, Electronic Content and Records Tool, and MDA's enterprise data visualization tool (QLIK Sense) for business intelligence and data integration. Integrate Business Intelligence and Data Management to streamline and formalize the activities associated with data storage, access, and handling. Provide comprehensive data governance, data cataloging, and analytics to blend processes and technologies to significantly improve data quality, data security, and data accessibility. Improved data management will enable Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence which will identify additional efficiencies and enable automation to support Missile Defense System processes, products, and decision forums with Artificial Intelligence capabilities. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Provides for the management, operation and maintenance support for the classified and unclassified MDA Portal application and the IT portal infrastructure. The support includes web-based developmental engineering and operations, planning, design, application implementation, content management and training. Also provides MDA Privacy Office and Civil Liberties compliance and reporting and provides data management services to accommodate MDA users. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Provides for the management, operations, and sustainment of classified and unclassified globally deployed video teleconferencing capabilities and equipment. Also includes unclassified desktop instant messaging, wireless services, and collaboration capabilities. Provides and implements engineering solutions for all unified communications services. Supports MDA global RDT&E mission for classified and unclassified voice services and interfaces with the Defense Information System Network Video Services Global, the DREN, and commercial vendors. Includes maintenance agreements and licenses for MDA Enterprise telecommunications equipment classified and unclassified mobile and desktop telephony devices. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Provides IT engineering support for new requirements analysis, design, planning and implementation of IT solutions. Addresses the increasing demand for more complex IT products and highly specialized IT services. Manages the prioritization and integration of investments in the MDA IT Portfolio to ensure compliance with Federal and DoD policies. Supports the MDA Chief Information Officer (CIO) Enterprise Architecture Board, Project Steering Committee and the Change Control Board. Ensures compliance with Federal Laws, DoD policies, directives and regulations including the Clinger-Cohen Act, the Federal Information Security Management Act, and the Office of Management and Budget IT budget reporting policies. Integrates CIO staff in strategic planning and continue 4th Estate IT Reform, agile capability delivery governance, and capability and architecture modeling. Integrate monitoring and performance tools into an area having drill down capabilities to device meta data and applications improving operations, incident resolution, test event configurations, and reducing schedules for capability enhancements to the Warfighter. This effort also provides civilian labor for core information technology efforts. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Requirements and Design develops Missile Defense System-level requirements and specifications, driving the integration of the System and GDA to provide required capabilities for the Warfighter. Efforts include: - Provide time-phased Missile Defense System technical content expectations and develop system requirements to address evolving threats. - Develop Specification Change Notices for future requirements changes, to include mitigation strategies to address discrepancy reports. - Develop and allocate functional performance, interface, and design suitability requirements to Programs. - Deliver system technical baseline updates to document integrated system build content. - Identify and resolve technical disconnects through the requirements trace process and certifications; conduct engineering analyses and perform trade studies. - Assess sub-system compliance with Missile Defense System design. - Lead Missile Defense Lethality program: -- Assess and add emerging threats to the MDA's lethality prediction models. -- Update lethality assessments to address collateral effects and consequences of intercept for new/upgraded sub-systems. - Develop anti-tamper approaches to inhibit reverse engineering of critical technologies. - Evaluate engineering and manufacturing maturity of Missile Defense sub-systems and components. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

The IAMD effort provides a consistent, disciplined systems engineering process to develop the technical and interface control requirements, prototype solutions and demonstrate cross Service kill chain capabilities across the joint service IAMD systems needed by the Geographic Combatant Commands and the Services. IAMD provides capabilities to improve performance to enable engagement coordination, decision making, increase battlespace, improve track continuity; ensuring that all activities are in alignment with the Department of Defense (DoD) Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) efforts. These performance improvements address interoperability needs and enable the capability to provide fire control quality data, and right sensor to right shooter functionality across the Joint Services. Efforts include: - Identify architecture alternatives that improve Joint IAMD interoperability and performance. Define, develop, and demonstrate candidate Joint IAMD increments. - Provide IAMD M&S model improvements, and system engineering analysis of cross-Service kill chains using high-fidelity software-in-the-loop program office system representations - Develop IAMD Operational Architecture alternatives to defend against advanced threats. - Support accurate representation of IAMD capabilities in Wargames and exercises, and configuration control across the joint systems. - Develop Automated Battle Management Aides (ABMAs) to support Engagement Coordination and Sensor/Weapon resource management - Utilize Joint Analysis Collaborative IAMD Lab to analyze and assess results of demonstrations and tests. This will also include the integration of Combined Forces, Partner and Allied integration into the JTIFC architecture for future interoperability. - Integrate Navy Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC), Marine Corps Cooperative Tracking Network, Army Integrated Fire Control Network and the Air Force Tactical Operations Center - Light (TOC-L) via the Joint Track Management Capability (JTMC) Bridge, and demonstrate in increasingly realistic environments and scenarios by leveraging live demonstrations and tracking events. - Develop architectures to improve combat identification integration and interoperability among Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense systems across the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps systems using a distributed Joint Multi-domain Advanced Combat ID (dJMAC) capability. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

The System-level Verification and Assessment program provides for Missile Defense System assessment and verification, validation, and accreditation (VV&A) activities to support capability delivery decisions and anchor System models and simulations. Efforts include: - Develop and manage assessment plans and requirements, including appropriate data collection venues, for Missile Defense System capability increments. - Identify M&S improvements needed to provide the assessment data required for Missile Defense System Operational Capability Baseline and fielding decisions. - Analyze ground and flight test data to characterize System interoperability and performance, and anchor models and simulations. - Identify mitigation approaches for system performance issues uncovered during the course of analysis and assessment. - Conduct VV&A activities to achieve and maintain Hardware-in-the-Loop model accreditation. - Conduct assessments of Missile Defense System capabilities and limitations prior to capability delivery decisions. - Verify Missile Defense System performance against specified requirements, and produce System verification reports. - Identify Missile Defense System sub-system and component technical risks, and track status and risk mitigation progress. - Maintain a risk database using the Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System to track and mitigate technical risks due to subsystem and component failures. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Knowledge Centers have been consolidated into a single entity to provide centralized access to independent technical advisors to the MDA program offices to assist in development of technical approaches and solutions. Efforts include: - Provide Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC) and University Affiliated Research Centers (UARC) subject matter expertise, to include reach-back capability as needed, for sub-system program managers: -- Provide Subject Matter Expertise and analytical support for Independent Review Teams, mission assurance assessments, Failure Review Boards and Failure Investigation Teams. -- Identify and provide recommendations to mitigate technical risks, including innovative and unconventional approaches. - Perform independent technical assessments of critical system and sub-system issues, including definition of knowledge points, establish closure criteria, and provide closure recommendations. - Conduct assessments of emerging technologies as required. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

This activity funds Missile Defense System architecture and future concept development, and efforts and studies to address the advanced emergent threat, including the Department of Defense (DoD) Analyses of Alternatives if directed. - Participate in designated Office of the Secretary of Defense activities or analyses, as directed by Congress. - Perform Missile Defense System capability gap analysis, and analyze and document architecture alternatives and/or new technologies to address gaps. - Maintain the CGT and provide updates/releases as needed. - Document far term future challenging threat behaviors and characteristics to inform future architecture design. - Develop architecture overviews, capability evolution plans, integrated system schedules, and top-level requirements. - Develop ARPs, known as Future Architecture (FA) increments, to address capability gaps and establish functional, performance and integration planning requirements for next generation weapons and sensors to counter future advanced threats. - FA increments will build upon current MDA POR; defined in the PIP, to close capability gaps over time in relevant regions. - ARPs will include multiple Course of Actions (COAs) at different price points with varying assumptions about architecture alternatives, future technologies, improvements to current systems, and integration with new assets from Allies / International partners. - Identify architecture alternatives that improve Missile Defense System performance and are complementary to and interoperable with NATO systems and theaters around the world. - Conduct technology development reviews for future/follow-on Missile Defense System Element development efforts. - Update concept capability documentation based on architectural options, trade studies, and technology development experiments. - Maintain a dialog with the Warfighter community for all Missile Defense System engineering and technical issues: -- Inform Warfighter development of the Joint IAMD Portfolio Priority List by providing relevant System data. -- Develop updates to the digital version of the Achievable Capabilities List (ACL) as required. -- Support MDA Wargames planning, execution, and analysis. - Develop updates to the digital version of the Future Architecture Roadmap as required. - Provide prioritized strategic architecture thrusts to inform Agency Science and Technology investments. - Maintain the MDA Director's Strategic Planning War-Room and the Strategic Vision for the Agency. - Lead collaborative effort to improve foreign partners' understanding of existing system capabilities, architectural performance and operational concepts of the Missile Defense System. - Develop/obtain future threat data and trajectories to support system level architecture analysis. - Develop/update current and future concept models to support future architecture development. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

This task provides rapid response, high quality systems engineering analysis products and supporting technical data to address external and internal Agency inquiries and decisions. Efforts include: - Conduct system level analyses to support ongoing Missile Defense System Architecture and Systems Engineering efforts. - Analyze expected performance of Missile Defense System Architecture options: -- Analyze and predict the performance of future Missile Defense System capabilities. -- Provide technical assessments, and collaborate with Missile Defense System Elements to define and track technical performance measures. - Respond to Warfighter, Combatant Command, Department, and Congressional requests for information and analysis. - Provide analytical support for real-world events. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Discrimination leads and integrates MDA's Threat Discrimination program, establishes performance goals, and develops functional, performance, and interface requirements to address advanced and emerging countermeasures. Efforts include: - Perform systems engineering support for threat discrimination and counter-countermeasures analysis and assessments. - Conduct analysis on predicted performance of advanced capability development for definition of initial requirements for the Missile Defense System. - Develop Electronic Attack and Electronic Protection models to support Missile Defense System requirements definition for Electronic Protection techniques. - Define operational concepts for improved counter-countermeasure techniques and technologies. - Establish discrimination and countermeasures mitigation test requirements and data collection plans. - Develop models and simulations for Electronic Attack, Electronic Protection, Objective Debris Mitigation, electro-optical/infrared improvements, advanced/dynamic threat, and high-fidelity scene generation to support test planning and execution. - Provide technical support for fielding improved threat discrimination capabilities. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

The Risk Management task identifies Missile Defense System element and component technical risks, and tracks status and risk mitigation progress. - Execute the risk management and mission readiness working group process. - Maintain a risk database using the Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System. - Review and approve program element risks, on quarterly basis.

This task develops anti-tamper approaches to inhibit reverse engineering of critical technologies and assesses Element, Component, or System maturity. - Develop anti-tamper approaches to enable international fielding, support coalition warfare, and extend the effective operational life. - Engage and support the Services in understanding and transitioning Missile Defense System Element Anti-Tamper activities. - Participate in Element reviews to assess proposed Anti-Tamper solutions and assist programs in developing and implementing Anti-Tamper detection and response technologies to mitigate risk. - Assess and report readiness of MDA development efforts for transition to production. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

This activity supports a system-level manufacturing and producibility team to address materials, key component, and subsystem design and development to reduce cycle time, part count, and risk. This effort develops manufacturing technologies and processes to reduce manufacturing cost and schedule and transition newly developed technologies from lab scale manufacturing to large scale production. This activity supports advanced manufacturing development including: - Additive manufacturing of advanced materials including high temperature metals, ceramic matrix composites, and tailored material development. - Development of materials for higher yields and faster production. - Application of new manufacturing processes to demonstrate reduced size, weight, and power alternatives to existing components. - Support the certification of new manufacturing processes by demonstrating the maturity and consistency of the processes through sample production and testing to increase the industrial base capacity. The activity also collaborates internally across the Agency to develop new processes or materials to address program manufacturability or reliability issues with existing systems. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Develop and demonstrate a JTIFC capability in FY 2023 and complete demo analysis in FY 2024. Support Department CMD-H systems engineering as required in FY 2024.

The Engineering and Analysis effort provides essential System ground and flight test event planning, threat development, test case development, execution, and analysis activities: - Design test architecture, define test objectives and evaluation criteria, define target requirements, and generate test scenarios appropriate to the data collection requirements to assess System performance and anchor models and simulations. - Coordinate with Missile Defense System OTA to address test issues and recommend action plans to achieve closure. - Integrate the Missile Defense M&S framework with Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and non-MDA Elements into event architectures supporting assessment activities. - Integrate, test, and deliver end-to-end System-level simulations supporting ground test missions. - Deploy, maintain, sustain, and modernize M&S Simulation Interface Units for testing and development activities, including cybersecurity compliance. - Analyze System-level interoperability. - Conduct modeling and technical analysis for Combatant Command Wargames and Exercises. - Utilize M&S for pre-test assessment, post-test review, and M&S updates. - Conduct early integration activities such as scenario refinement and early checkout of Element software for ground test (GT) events. - Conduct continuous test requirements management for the IMTP at the test campaign and test event levels. - Provide test configuration management; risk assessments; and anomaly/deficiency review, assessment and closure. - Analyze test results to identify verification and validation data collection shortfalls and reassign objectives to future test events as required. - Perform event architecture certification. - Provide Federation reporting for verification, validation, and accreditation of M&S architectures. -- Plan, conduct, and report System-level pre-mission predictive analysis for IMTP flight tests (FTs) that provides risk reduction and likelihood of mission success. - Conduct test data reduction and processing and archive analysis products. - Perform quick-look and detailed post-test analysis and reporting for IMTP FTs. - Plan, conduct, and report system level performance analysis for IMTP GTs that provides assessment of system performance in simple and worst-case real-world scenarios, identifies limitations and issues that need to be corrected prior to fielding. - Document test observations for System-level test anomalies and coordinate the resulting Discrepancy Reports within the Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System. - Design, develop, deploy, maintain, test, accredit, and modernize test analysis tools and computing environments to enhance analysis capability and efficiency. - Design complex and diverse System-level GT scenarios to provide data collection necessary for requirements verification and performance assessment of new Missile Defense System capabilities during a GT campaign. - Develop and implement software tools for the development of test cases in support of System-level integration events, Ground Test events, System Pre-Mission Tests and System Federation Validation Events; and define and develop test case characteristics. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each fiscal year (FY) are as follows:

The Intelligence program provides expertise to develop intelligence products on threat system capabilities, and leverages unique intelligence-community developed, owned, and operated capabilities for the benefit and advocacy of the missile defense community. Efforts include: - Serve as designated intelligence liaison between MDA and the Intelligence Community. - Provide Current, Technical, Acquisition, and Cyber intelligence to the Missile Defense System throughout the acquisition life cycle. - Characterize all adversary missile threat systems for use in Missile Defense modeling, simulation, and testing. - Maintain Missile Intelligence Secure Link classified portal (full operational capability). Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each Fiscal year (FY) are as follows:

The Counterintelligence Program detects, mitigates or neutralizes espionage, foreign intelligence collection activities and terrorist activities conducted for or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations, persons, or their agents directed against United States national security interests, or DoD/MDA and its personnel, information, material, facilities, and activities. Efforts include: - Serve as MDA Liaison with Federal, State and Local Law Enforcement and Counterintelligence (CI) Organizations to report and resolve incidents involving MDA personnel, information and technologies. - Replace outdated technical surveillance countermeasures and equipment to employ the latest technologies during conferences, flight tests, and other classified activities to detect, deter, and prevent the loss or compromise of classified or sensitive. information to foreign adversary collection activities. - Conduct CI activities to detect malicious and insider threat activities targeting MDA administrative and fire control networks. - Provide CI research and assistance to identify cyber threats to MDA computer networks and Missile Defense fire control systems. - Conduct CI research and analysis to produce CI threat products that address foreign intelligence, cyber and international terrorist threats to MDA personnel, facilities, information, systems and activities worldwide. - Maintain technical surveillance countermeasures and gear to detect, identify and neutralize adversary collection platforms and capabilities used to gain unauthorized access to MDA classified and controlled unclassified information. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each Fiscal year (FY) are as follows:

Cybersecurity Engineering: Develop designs and solutions to protect the MDA from existing and emerging cyber threats through coherent cybersecurity systems engineering. Efforts include: - Coordinate evaluation of cybersecurity capability during System tests. - Develop verification and assessment strategies for System cybersecurity requirements. - Implement cyber threat mitigation strategies. - Update cybersecurity systems engineering policy and guidance for Missile Defense System design and acquisition to enhance resiliency against cyber threats. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each Fiscal year (FY) are as follows:

Threat Engineering provides representations of adversary missile capabilities and parametric threat space, based on available intelligence information. Develops, coordinates, and baselines Missile Defense System-level threats, targets, and countermeasures requirements for Missile Defense System development, design, and flight and ground testing. Efforts include: - Develop threat models and definitions for Missile Defense System Program Offices for development and test. - Produce threat / scenario data for Missile Defense System development, Warfighter Requests for Analysis/Information, MDA Architecture analyses, and Special Studies. - Produce the Adversary Capability Document to identify/develop adversary capabilities for future threat modeling and definition. - Produce Adversary Data Package (ADP) updates to define the Parametric Threat Space for Missile Defense System threat requirements allocation, development, design, analysis, and test. - Develop the Countermeasures Specification for Flight Test Targets. - Develop target requirements to ensure flight test targets meet operationally realistic conditions and objectives. - Produce Target Assessment and Certification Reports. - Assess threat representation of flight test targets. - Develop target system specifications and guide targets requirements development, planning, and certification for Missile Defense System flight tests. - Analyze flight test target performance relative to threat intelligence assessments to support target system verification and certification. - Provide Technical Data for major engineering reviews (System Requirements Reviews, Critical Design Reviews, etc.). Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows: