Ballistic Missile Defense Midcourse Segment Test

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 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; 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 and 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:

Provides the infrastructure and laboratories to support the test program as well as the day-to-day operations of the test program to include support for test planning, execution, and post-event reconstruction. Recurring efforts include: - Provide laboratory environments to support hardware and software integration testing prior to entry into Missile Defense System flight, ground, and/or cyber level tests. - Provide laboratory environments to support execution of ground and/or cyber testing. - Provide operations and sustainment of laboratories in support of flight, ground, and/or cyber testing. - Provide infrastructure, hardware, and software upgrades to laboratories to represent the hardware and software under testing. - Provide testing infrastructure and test execution support requested by the Warfighter to enhance development of doctrine and Tactics, Techniques and Procedures. - Provide testing infrastructure and test execution support for tests of opportunity presented by real world events and Missile Defense System/external test activities. - Provide test infrastructure and coordination of flight test range support from Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB), California, for all range activities, test engineering, test operators, and test asset transportation. - Provide command, control, and situational awareness for test events at the Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center (MDIOC) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the Readiness and Control Facility in Fort Greely, Alaska (FGA). - Provide test communication plans, test communication control, satellite communication bandwidth for testing, test network certification, and accreditation for tests to integrate the range in VSFB, MDIOC, FGA, and Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) in Hawaii. - Provide test equipment upgrades at VSFB and MDIOC for test support systems. - Provide test equipment and infrastructure upgrades to support cyber defense upgrades to defend against current and future cybersecurity threats. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Program participates in integrated Missile Defense System ground tests executed in both the HWIL lab environment and with deployed operational assets providing integrated performance data supporting GMD hardware and software fielding decisions. The Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Program conducts cyber tests and participates in integrated Missile Defense System cyber tests executed both in the HWIL lab environment and using operational assets providing data supporting cyber, operational resilience, and survivability assessments. Ground test execution provides the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Program Government and Industry support personnel for planning, integration, execution, and analysis for ground and cyber tests. Recurring efforts include: - Conduct Integrated Ground Test sprint planning, pre-mission analysis, integration, execution, and post-mission analysis. - Conduct Distributed Ground Test planning, pre-mission analysis, integration, execution, and post-mission analysis. - Conduct Ground Test Readiness planning, pre-mission analysis, integration, execution, and post-mission analysis. - Conduct developmental Cooperative Vulnerability Identification (CVI) cyber test planning, integration, execution and analysis. - Conduct developmental Adversarial Cybersecurity DT&E (ACD) cyber test planning, integration, execution, and analysis. - Conduct Cooperative Vulnerability and Penetration Assessment (CVPA) cyber test planning, integration, execution, and analysis. - Conduct Adversarial Assessment (AA) cyber test planning, integration, execution, and analysis. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Flight tests provide the opportunity to test actual hardware and software and demonstrate Missile Defense System interoperability under operationally realistic conditions. Flight test execution provides the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Program Government and Industry support personnel for planning, integration, execution, and analysis for flight tests. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:

Program Operations provides: - Technical and business management support, financial management, cost and schedule performance analyses, cost estimation and analysis, configuration management, and programmatic integration activities to ensure the program meets cost, schedule, and performance goals. - Test program compliance with internal and external direction, policies, and regulations. - Mission assurance processes to include quality and safety. - Technical and testing support; cyber security support; hardware and software quality, safety, and mission assurance; and integrated logistics support. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows: