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Ballistic Missile Defense Joint Warfighter Support

MDARDT&EPartial Reconciliation0603898C
What it is
Ballistic Missile Defense Joint Warfighter Support (0603898C) is a MDA research & development line funded in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide account. Its J-book detail breaks the line into 4 projects.
What changed
-$1.97M FY25→26 R-1 TOA · PB2026
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$47.9MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25 Total
$47.7MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26 Request
$45.8MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25→26 Change
-$1.97MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY2026 award data is a partial year — USASpending awards are reported on a rolling basis and the fiscal year does not close until September 30. why partial FY2026 data? →

Budget Trajectory
The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order so the direction of travel is readable at a glance: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.
The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order so the direction of travel is readable at a glance: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.FY24: $47.9MFY25: $47.7MFY26: $45.8MFY24FY25FY26
Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal yearAmount
FY24$47.9M
FY25$47.7M
FY26$45.8M

All series figures: R-1 TOA · PB2026

Decade view — P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
12 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2015–FY2026): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.
12 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2015–FY2026): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.FY2015 actuals — PB2017 editionFY2016 actuals — PB2018 editionFY2017 actuals — PB2019 editionFY2018 actuals — PB2020 editionFY2019 actuals — PB2021 editionFY2020 actuals — PB2022 editionFY2021 actuals — PB2023 editionFY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2016 enacted — PB2017 editionFY2017 enacted — PB2018 editionFY2018 enacted — PB2019 editionFY2019 enacted — PB2020 editionFY2020 enacted — PB2021 editionFY2021 enacted — PB2022 editionFY2022 enacted — PB2023 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2017 request — PB2017 editionFY2018 request — PB2018 editionFY2019 request — PB2019 editionFY2020 request — PB2020 editionFY2021 request — PB2021 editionFY2022 request — PB2022 editionFY2023 request — PB2023 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY15FY18FY20FY22FY24FY26

The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.

● actuals (line)  ·  ○ enacted  ·  ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.

Decade series values by fiscal year and President's Budget edition: one row per series (actuals, enacted, request), one column per fiscal year. Every figure opens its own citation.
SeriesFY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$44.2M$47.6M$47.4M$48.6M$48.4M$51.1M$49.3M$50.3M$50.9M$47.9M
Enacted$47.9M$47.8M$49.0M$48.8M$51.5M$49.6M$50.6M$50.3M$48.2M$47.7M
Request$47.8M$49.0M$48.8M$51.5M$49.6M$50.6M$50.3M$48.2M$47.7M$45.8M

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $50.3M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reported $50.9M as actual total obligation authority — $673.0K above the request. 50.9450.27 = 0.67 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.

Program Lineage

No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.

Description

Mission Ballistic Missile Defense Joint Warfighter Support

The Joint Warfighter Support Program (JWSP) is the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA's) primary means for providing direct technical support to Combatant Commands (CCMDs), the Military Services, and the Joint Staff on Missile Defense System development, testing, operational support, and configuration management. It enables delivery of Missile Defense System capabilities to Warfighters and ensures their participation in the identification and development of new Missile Defense (MD) capabilities via the Warfighter Involvement Process. The JWSP allows the Warfighter and MDA to work together to identify gaps, seams, and needs in warfighting capability and enhance Missile Defense System attributes by submitting modification and fielding requests. The JWSP administers the global asset management process ensuring Warfighters know what assets are available to support the missile defense fight. This process coordinates and deconflicts schedules to optimize operational availability of assets while maximizing Missile Defense System capability and meeting minimum required defense requirements. It also provides 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year MD operational support to Warfighters worldwide, to include global system verification and validation over the operational Common Interactive Broadcast. The program enables rapid response to Warfighter Requests for Information and Requests for Analyses, which are especially critical to mission success in protecting U.S. Forces and other defended assets during Real World threat events. The program also supports improving products delivered to Warfighters through technical reviews and technical analyses supporting strategic and regional MD planning, development of shot doctrine and MD design. The JWSP also enables the inclusion of both CCMD and MDA MD objectives in CCMD/Joint Staff-sponsored Wargames and Exercises, which are used to sharpen and enhance joint MD warfighting skills. Finally, the JWSP administers all Navy Reserve support personnel and handles coordination for Army, Air Force and Space Force Reserve that provide technical, engineering, intelligence, integration, and operational support to the MDA.

Mission Cyber Operations

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 Defense (DoD) 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.

Mission Joint Warfighter Support

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.

Mission Program-Wide Support

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.

Mission Joint Warfighter Support Test

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.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (5)

Strategic Warfighter Integration Software Assurance Support

Perform manual and automated software code analysis, using government furnished equipment tools (e.g. Fortify 360), to detect false positives, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities. - Verify and validate cybersecurity and/or cybersecurity-enabled products (firewalls, data/network encryptors, routers, Intrusion Detection Systems, etc.) used within the MDA infrastructure have a current and EAL certification and rating. Validate IT products are listed on the DoD APLITS. - Participate in meetings with customers to review software analysis findings and proposed courses of action for remediation. - Prepare a comprehensive report detailing the weaknesses and vulnerabilities found. Document the references to files and line numbers. - Maintain a record of all software code analysis documentation and organized in accordance with Government policy. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Strategic Warfighter Integration

(1) Missile Defense Operations Support: - Manage and operate the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Operations Support Center 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and 2 MDA Operations Centers in Virginia and Alabama for daily execution of scheduled Missile Defense System activities; and prepare and transmit Logistic Reports. - Manage and execute the Missile Defense System Asset Management process of planning, coordinating, scheduling and executing access to operational and Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) assets operated by MDA and Warfighters dispersed globally with differing missions and competing priorities to facilitate assets in support of Warfighter Missile Defense (MD); Missile Warning/Space Surveillance operations; MDA RDT&E, training and sustainment activities. - Lead the MDA Operations Support Planning Team, an MDA-wide task force supporting Warfighters, Services and the Joint Staff to address real-world contingencies and crisis events. - Develop Missile Defense System Annual Plan and Missile Defense System Operating Schedule facilitating key stakeholder coordination and maximizing operational availability of the Missile Defense System. - Develop and maintain the Integrated Scheduling Tool. - Facilitate major software/hardware additions to the Operational Capability Baseline for homeland/regional defenses. - Develop and maintain the Missile Defense System Operational Readiness Reporting System application to collect and report Missile Defense System operational availability and readiness data through the network-based tool to distribute data to Office of the Secretary of Defense, Combatant Commands (CCMDs), Joint Staff, Military Services, and Missile Defense System Operators. - Provide certification training to Ballistic Missile Defense Systems (BMDS) watch officers, BMDS Safety Officers, and other Operations Support Center staff. (2) CCMD Integration United States Strategic Command, United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), United States Central Command, United States European Command, United States Indo-Pacific Command, and United States Space Command (USSPACECOM): - Support the Warfighter Involvement Process (WIP) and other MDA Warfighter engagement efforts by assisting Warfighters in their update to the annual Missile Defense System Prioritized Capabilities List and Modification and Fielding Request List. - Aid CCMD participation in missile defense capability definition, design, development, integration, and delivery processes through the WIP to synchronize capability delivery with operational readiness and acceptance. - Support Joint Functional Component Command Integrated Missile Defense integration by participating in the Warfighter Forum a multi-lateral information and decision event to address CCMD, Service and Department of Defense Missile Defense System equities. - Assist USNORTHCOM in broadening homeland defense planning to address the full range of USNORTHCOM threats by conducting the Homeland Defense Architecture Working Group and Shot Management Analysis Cell. - Prepare MDA senior leadership for engagements with CCMDs. - Interface with CCMDs on MD operational issues by providing planning and analysis support and translating warfighter responses to MDA issues. - Manage the Warfighter Requests for Information; Requests for Analyses; and Requests for Allied Participation in Tests processes. (3) Military Service Integration: - Facilitate and coordinate Service Boards of Directors on Lead Service Missile Defense System related equities, Program Objective Memorandum development and execution, element fielding, operations and maintenance, and the Missile Defense System capability delivery process. - Maintain daily, strategic-level interfaces with Military Services and Joint Staff plan for the delivery, fielding, and operation of respective Lead Service Missile Defense System capabilities via senior-level working groups, General Officer Air and Missile Defense and Space forums. - Support transition and transfer to the Military Services through participation in senior-level working groups, Joint Staff directorates, and facilitate General Officer forums. (4) Operational Missile Defense System Verification and Validation: - Provide 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, global system verification and validation over the operational Common Integrated Broadcast, and Shared Early Warning System for MD early warning data. - Support Tactical Data Processor software development, MDA flight tests and other software development efforts using live real-world broadcasts of simulated missile threats. - Support Naval Board of Inspection and Survey, Shipboard installation, Aegis On-Demand, Aegis program releases, US and Coalition operational readiness and Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Exercise requirements to validate equipment, materiel, and tactical readiness while simultaneously providing deployment certification and crew operator qualification. - Verify operational readiness of both US and Coalition partners to detect a real-world launch of a ballistic threat. (5) Warfighter Training and Education Support: - Provide Missile Defense Space Warning Tool support to increase operator proficiency, competence, and confidence; provide initial qualification training; and ship certification for Aegis BMD crews using advanced simulations and models. - Provide technical and programmatic updates for BMD Warfighter training; participates in Missile Defense System training and Education Working Group to coordinate Missile Defense System training issues with USSPACECOM and Joint Staff. - Support Fleet Synthetic and Aegis Operator Training to ensure operational readiness of Aegis as the first step in the kill chain for MD. - Provide Early Warning missile injects for Joint Warfighter Support Test project (MT03) war games and exercises and tailored support for other Joint Warfighter Support Test events (as listed in the Integrated Master Test Plan and R-4/4A schedule). (6) Joint Staff Integration: - Facilitate and coordinate all Joint Staff interactions with the MDA. - Maintain daily, strategic-level interfaces with the Joint Staff. (7) Reserve Integration: - Manage activities and lead coordination for Reserve support to MDA provided by Army, Air Force, Space Force and the Navy, including Reserve Navy Engineering Duty Officer and enlisted billets and personnel. - Provide direct Military Reserve manpower, to include technical, engineering, intelligence and operational support to MDA: -- Within individual member statutory limitations (i.e. one weekend/month and two weeks/year). -- Through Active Duty for Operational Support (ADOS) personnel orders. - Process and manage ADOS requests throughout the MDA. - Provide assistance for the Operational Support Officer role to support the Warfighter. Specific and/or unique accomplishments for each FY are as follows:

Program Wide Support

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:

Wargames and Exercises

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) provides operational-level interfaces to the Global Combatant Commands (GCC) and ensures Warfighter participation to develop future missile defense capabilities. - Work with Combatant Commands (CCMDs) on the inclusion of Allies and regional partners into MDA Ground and Flight tests and Wargames and Exercises simulations. - Support JFCC IMD and United States European Command (USEUCOM) in the European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) implementation process through the planning, testing, integration and execution of Missile Defense System Wargames and Exercises. - Support Joint Staff integration of MDA models into Tier I events through the Joint, Live Virtual Constructive campaign. - Work with Program Offices and the Warfighter; publish a Concept of Operations that will support future MDA M&S support to Missile Defense System Wargames and Exercises. - Coordinate and integrate CCMD requirements into the Test Directorate Wargames and Exercises Master Plan. - Provide support to the development and update of Ballistic Missile Defense portions of CCMD Operation Plans and Contingency Plans. - Engage in MDA/GCC interface and synchronization of information regarding capabilities and security cooperation strategies. - Develop and provide Wargames, Exercises and TTX in support of CCMD-specific scenarios as listed in the R4-4A schedule for the USEUCOM, United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), and United States Northern Command / United States Strategic Command Geographic Combatant Commands. - Develop and provide Wargames that integrate future missile defense system concepts and capabilities to inform research, development, acquisition, and engineering activities to close Warfighter capability gaps in support of the larger operational campaign. USEUCOM Engagement: - Coordinate with USEUCOM for continued MDA support of key EPAA Approach milestones in order to provide a full range of Missile Defense System capabilities addressing ballistic missile threats to the European theater. - Work with USEUCOM to include North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allies and regional partners during MDA Ground tests, Flight tests, Wargames and Exercises in order to improve Allied - United States Missile Defense System interoperability. - Coordinate with MDA program elements to facilitate rapid agency responses to USEUCOM requests for analysis and information. Provide reach-back support for the MDA Assistant to the MDA Director and Liaison Officer in USEUCOM for activities requiring visibility by the MDA Director and Director for Test. USCENTCOM Engagement: - Promote CCMD leadership in developing a regional partner data sharing system supporting USCENTCOM regional Integrated Air and Missile Defense architecture development. - Coordinate with MDA program elements, assisting in planning and execution activities supporting USCENTCOM's regional partners. USINDOPACOM Engagement: - Assist USINDOPACOM leadership in broadening Phased Adaptive Approach planning to address a full range of threats and integration of allies into the Missile Defense System. - Support USINDOPACOM (Operations Directorate) Joint Chiefs of Staff in efforts to promote the Aegis Ashore system. - Share operational information and knowledge and help allies develop common operational procedures. Specific and/or unique accomplishments for each FY are as follows:

Program, Planning and Operations

MDA provides and ensures Warfighter participation in the development of future missile defense capabilities and requirements. The key Warfighter interface activities include: - Provide resource management and administration of personnel and funding. - Manage and provide programmatic direction and oversight of the MDA Wargames and Exercise program. - Provide MDA Wargames and Exercises support to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Military Service Components, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CCMD, the JFCC IMD, and international partners/allies to assist warfighter Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures validation and identify gaps that drive warfighter requirements. - Lead MDA planning, testing, integration and execution of all MDA-supported CCMD Wargames and Exercises. Specific and/or unique accomplishments for each FY are as follows:

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideMDAFY24 Actuals$47.9M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideMDAFY25 Enacted$47.7M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideMDAFY25 Total$47.7M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideMDAFY26 Disc. Request$45.8M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideMDAFY26 Total$45.8M

Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)

J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget Figures shows both.

Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$429.4M$47.9M$47.7M$45.8M$45.8M
MC03: Cyber Operations$752.0K$0$168.0K$170.0K$170.0K
MD03: Joint Warfighter Support$188.3M$19.4M$20.9M$20.2M$20.2M
MD40: Program-Wide Support$25.1M$1.72M$1.84M$1.58M$1.58M
MT03: Joint Warfighter Support Test$215.2M$26.8M$24.9M$23.8M$23.8M

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1,741 programs). why coverage is partial? →

Awards

No awards are linked to this program element at high confidence — the budget→award crosswalk only asserts links it can defend, and this line has none yet.

Lobbying Mentions

2 mentions from the Senate LDA disclosure database.

BAE SYSTEMS INCBallistic|Missile2026matched 2+ title words

National Defense Authorization Act, 2027 (HR XXXX/S XXXX); provisions regarding R&D - Navy, US Marine Corps, Air…

BAE SYSTEMS INCBallistic|Missile2024matched 2+ title words

Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2024 (HR 4365/S 2587; PL 118-47) and Further Consolidated Appropriations…

Oversight

Department-level designation (not specific to this program)

GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not Ballistic Missile Defense Joint Warfighter Support — no program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.

No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →