Ballistic Missile Defense Test

The Missile Defense System Test Program is responsible for the following Program, Planning, and Operational activities: - Maintain a professional and diverse civilian workforce to plan and execute flight, ground, and cyber test events. - Serve as the MDA Test Interface/Liaison to the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering for Development Test, Evaluation, and Assessments (DTE&A), Joint Functional Component Command (JFCC) for Integrated Missile Defense (IMD), Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) and the Service Operational Test Agencies (OTA). - Provide Missile defense System OTA Team resources and funding for civilian salaries and personnel support to conduct system-level test and evaluation activities of the entire Missile Defense System portfolio. The Missile Defense System OTA Team actively participates in test planning, conducts and reports of flight and ground test evaluation activities, and conducts cyber assessments of the Missile Defense System. - Implement cyber test requirements as directed by DOT&E and Department of Defense (DoD) regulations and guidelines to include planning, coordination, and execution of Cooperative Vulnerability and Penetration Assessments and Adversarial Assessments. - Establish, maintain, and execute the Missile Defense System Test program budget. - Provide IMTP cost modeling. - Provide day-to-day Test Functional Area management. - Provide Test organizational property accountability. - Establish and standardize Test issuance documents. - Manage test contracting and acquisition activities as well as manpower activities ensuring proper integration of contracts, support agreements; oversight and maintenance of the Test Directorate Inter/Intra-agency Acquisition Review database. - Provide oversight and coordination of test policy guidance to ensure compliance and strategic synchronization across the Test Directorate and MDA. - Manage travel, including travel to support IMTP flight and ground test events. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

The Flight Test Execution Program solely reflects the IMTP cost model. The program integrates, manages, and executes flight tests using certified personnel and standardized processes and products to support Missile Defense System fielding to the warfighter. - Develop flight test training requirements for Test Directors and other console operators. - Implement cyber test requirements as directed by DOT&E to include planning, coordination, and DoD regulations and guidelines for execution of Cooperative Vulnerability and Penetration Assessments and Adversarial Assessments. - Develop and manage the cyber test organization including plans, policy and strategy, resources, and tracking of information and coordinating cyber test schedules in support of Flight Tests. - Identify mission risks and implement mitigation practices as required ensuring safe and successful test outcomes. - Provide a Failure Response Team to ensure implementation of the response plan and capture lessons learned for process improvement. - Train test personnel for each flight test and maintain training records for all test personnel. - Train and resource System Mission Managers to lead Integrated Event Test Team mission management and readiness activities across all four test event phases for System and Element flight test and contingency operations. - Complete test planning for missile defense Flight Test events. - Conduct mission planning and range coordination activities; provide communications security equipment and management for missile defense Flight Test events. - Design and develop the Lessons Learned database. - Execute Flight Test events in accordance with the IMTP schedule. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

The Ground Test Execution Program plans, designs, manages, integrates, and executes Missile Defense System ground and cyber tests to support assessment and fielding of Missile Defense System capabilities to the Warfighter. It also delivers and sustains critical ground test infrastructure. - Conduct System Pre-Mission Tests as required to support Missile defense System Flight Test Risk Reduction Analysis. - Refine and continue development of the Ground Test Mission Directors, System Mission Manager and Mission Director Training Plan. - Implement cyber test requirements as directed by DOT&E and DoD regulations and guidelines to include planning, coordination, and execution of Cooperative Vulnerability and Penetration Assessments and Adversarial Assessments. - Develop and manage the cyber test organization including plans, policy and strategy, resources, and tracking of information and coordinating cyber test schedules in support of the IMTP. - Execute baseline Ground Tests in accordance with IMTP requirements. - Execute baseline Cyber Tests in accordance with IMTP requirements. Maintain Ground Test Infrastructure: - Execute ground test planning activities supporting MDA test requirements and priorities to include test design, test integration, and international testing. - Verify all test assets and resources are reserved and operationally available to support each test event. - Coordinate requirements for laboratory facilities. - Coordinate and identify communication requirements (e.g., tactical data, truth data, test data, tactical voice and test voice). - Maintain the hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) Labs and communication test assets. - Manage, develop, maintain, and modernize the Ground Test communications network to support Missile Defense System ground testing. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

The Missile Defense System Test Program procures, maintains, and manages test resource infrastructure and provides all resources and requirements in support of a robust IMTP schedule in five primary functions: 1) Flight Test Ranges and Infrastructure Upgrades. 2) Mobile Instrumentation Systems. 3) Airborne Sensors. 4) Test Communications. 5) Data Management and Labs. The primary function responsibilities are as follows: Flight Test Ranges and Infrastructure Upgrades: - Manage, develop, sustain, and modernize MDA test facilities and infrastructure used to support Missile Defense System element and system-level flight tests, including range facilities, support vehicles and equipment, fixed and mobile sensors and instrumentation, test communications networks, and test situational awareness tools. - Develop and maintain test execution products that include flight vehicle and ground systems telemetry verification capabilities, good target call data and displays, flight safety data processing, sensor pointing, and data driven Subject Matter Expert displays. - Facilities Sustainment Restoration/Modernization (FSRM) Funds are required to repair, upgrade, and sustain numerous facilities, test infrastructure, and equipment maintained by MDA world-wide. - Continue FSRM efforts to meet mission facility condition requirements. Mobile Instrumentation Upgrades: - Provide Sea Based Systems continued sustainment, and planned overhauls of test instrumentation ships, Pacific Collector and Pacific Tracker, and associated telemetry and radar systems. - Continue the phased modernization of the X-band Transportable Radar in FY 2024 and FY 2026. Airborne Sensors: - Maintain existing High Altitude Observatory that collect radiometric and photo-documentary performance data for strategic and tactical defense systems flight and ground tests. Test Communications: - Provide operations and maintenance support for the Mission Voice Communications (MVC). - Maintain accreditation for the Transportable Telemetry Systems, Pacific Collector Range Safety System, and the MVC. Data Management and Labs: - Establish authority and maintain configuration control of the test baseline. - Develop, update, coordinate and deliver the IMTP, coordinated within MDA and External stakeholders DOT&E; Director, DTE&A; the JFCC IMD; the Service OTAs; and the JITC; and provide an affordable and executable test plan to meet Warfighter needs and National Security commitments. - Coordinate the IMTP Special Access Programs (SAP) Annex with respect to changes to SAP Program Test Baseline and synchronize with the collateral IMTP. - Manage the approved test baseline by assessing all proposed changes to the Missile Defense System Test Schedule and Test Configurations for each Missile Defense System test event identified in the IMTP. - Support the Developmental Baseline Reviews and the annual Missile Defense System Accountability Reviews to assess baseline execution risk and verify Missile Defense System components are consistent with the approved test baseline. - Update and maintain the classified Test Resource Mission Planning-Tool (C) database. - Execute Flight Test Design Analysis ensuring test designs are safe and sufficient to meet test objectives. - Develop and maintain integrated test tools to support Truth Data Requirements Documents, Truth Data Packages, on-site Truth Quick-Look product development, pre- and post-test analysis test planning, and resource de-confliction; Integrated Data Management Plans, Data Handling Plans, Cyber documentation, data planning and management, library operations, deployment process; infrastructure requirements process; and test operations support. - Provide analytical capability for Flight and Ground test planning to include: test design feasibility assessments, truth data and sensor analysis, truth data requirements documentation and data packages; flight safety analysis and flight safety data packages; and telemetry link margin, collision avoidance, and pre- and post-test trajectory analyses. - Review Missile Defense System component programs' content on a quarterly basis to ensure consistency with the approved IMTP. - Maintain accreditation of the Orion Voice Switch Conferencing System. - Co-chair the Signature Working Group to review all signature models and identify technical limitations associated with radar and optical signatures used to support Missile Defense System ground and flight testing. - Manage the Missile Defense Data Center (MDDC) Program and its library, operations, and infrastructure providing centralized data management, archival, and distribution services. - Provide Range safety risk analysis through model development of target and interceptor debris assessments to determine mission risk assessment for mission risk decisions. - Operations and Maintenance for test communications networks and data acquisition, display, and distribution systems in support of flight and ground test events. 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.

The Engineering and Test Analysis effort provides essential Missile Defense System ground and flight test event planning, execution, and evaluation activities for each test event: - Design test architecture, define test objectives and evaluation criteria, and define target requirements appropriate to the data collection requirements to assess Missile Defense System performance and anchor M&S. - Produce threat data for Missile Defense System ground and flight tests. - Coordinate with Missile Defense System OTA to address test issues, disposition them, coordinate them, and recommend action plans to achieve closure. - Deliver HWIL M&S integration test cases. - Integrate, test, and deliver end-to-end Missile Defense System simulations supporting ground test missions. - Analyze system-level interoperability. - Conduct modeling and technical analysis for Combatant Command Wargames and Exercises. - Utilize M&S for pre-test assessment and post-test review and M&S updates. - 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. - Document Missile Defense System test observations for system-level test anomalies and coordinate the resulting Discrepancy Reports within the Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System. - Upgrade test analysis tools (e.g., Modular Analysis and Reporting Suite to enhance analysis capability and efficiency. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

The Missile Defense System Test Network/System C&A program will: - Provide cyber program oversight of all MDA Test Directorate (DT) information systems, networks, sponsored remote sites, ground and flight test infrastructure, and exercise/war game infrastructures. This includes management of: cyber compliance and authorization; cyber training and awareness; information system secure configuration; assessment and incident management; and computer network defense. - Fund Missile Defense System Test Program Information Systems Security Manager civilian salaries. - Conduct cyber/information assurance engineering and architecture planning for the Missile Defense System Test Program information technology systems. - Plan and test the Cyber controls for Missile Defense System. - Develop DT National Institute of Standards and Technology certification and accreditation packages. - Leverage CDS as single authority implementing standard security policies for test and across the Missile Defense System. - Continue to define cyber investments, risks and benefits used to reduce vulnerabilities and protect critical administrative and test data. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows: