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Missile Defense

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) mission is to defend the U.S., deployed forces and allies from ballistic missile attack. MDA is researching, developing and fielding a global, integrated and multi-layered Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS), comprising multiple sensors, interceptors and battle management capabilities.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • MDA's strategic planning, resource allocation and management oversight activities are properly aligned to accomplish stated mission objectives. MDA budget requests and human resource management activities are explicitly tied to appropriate performance goals. MDA leaders regularly review and evaluate a wide array of performance data to inform and guide their decision making.
  • MDA accomplished short-term goals by fielding the first phase of the defensive system. The Agency continues to develop capabilities to defend the U.S. and deployed forces against broader ballistic missile threats. MDA instituted corrective measures to address flight testing, quality, and mission assurance issues in pursuit of subsequent developmental program goals.
  • The DoD maintains a flexible investment planning approach for the missile defense portfolio to manage efficiently the high degree of program uncertainty and complexity. The DoD and the MDA have initiated several activities to improve financial planning and coordination among key stakeholders for future force structure development and operational support needs.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Improving program management discipline, accountability, and inter-department coordination by developing and applying a Strategic Management Framework and Integrated Program Policy documents.
  • Undergoing a reengineering effort. MDA plans to use revised performance measures in the next PART cycle to more-accurately reflect progress as well as performance of the BMDS.

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