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Missile and Space Intelligence Center

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The Missile

and Space

Intelligence

Center

Dr. Tom Richardson

Technical Director


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1991

1992

1985

MSIC History

Von Braun

Medaris Toftoy

Redstone Arsenal Established

Designated as Rocket R&D Site

Ordnance Rocket Center Activated

Army Ballistic Missile Agency Established

U.S. Army Intelligence

Agency (AIA)

Defense IntelligenceAgency (DIA)

U.S. Army R&D

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Mission

Air and Missile

Defense Systems

Anti –Satellite

Systems

Command and

Control SystemsAnti –Tank Guided

Missile Systems

Ballistic Missile Systems

Directed Energy

Weapons

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Provide our customers

- Warfighters, Force

Developers, Policy Makers,

and Homeland Security –

high-quality, responsive

scientific and technical

intelligence


Customers

• War Fighters

• Weapon Developers

• Policy Makers

• Homeland Security

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Air and Missile Defense Systems

Russian

SA-14

Russian SA-20 French/German

ROLAND

Russian SA-11

Russian SA-2

Chinese LY-60

Russian SA-5

French

CROTALE NGRussian SA-20

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Short-Range Ballistic Missiles

Russian SCUD-B

Russian SS-21

Pakistani

GHAURI Chinese CSS-7

Russian SS-26

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Ground-Based Directed Energy Weapons

Russian RANETS-E Russian MLC-3Chinese ZM87

Russian Balkhash

Conceptual Commercial – Off the Shelf Laser Weapon

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Ground-Based Anti-Satellite Missiles

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Anti-Tank Guided Missiles

Russian ShTURM-S

Russian KORNET

Chinese RED ARROW-8 South African INGWE

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Command, Control,Communications and Computers (C4)

Belarus RANGIR

Russian SA-11 BCV Russian GCP

Russian SENEZh

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MSIC Business Model

Intelligence Collection

• SIGINT

• FME

• HUMINT

• OSINT

• GEOINT

• MASINT

Weapon System Analysis

• Intelligence Data

• Engineering Practice

• Modeling and Simulation

• Physical Reality

• Analysts’ Experience

Assessments

• Modeling and Simulation

• Experience

• Collaboration within the IC

• Determine weapon vulnerabilities

Customer Interaction

• Develop tactics and counter-rmeasures

• Develop policies

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Computational Analysis

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High Performance Computer System

Clusters Reliable/Redundant NetworkMassive

Data Storage

933 Nodes 6024 Cores

22.9TB of Memory 88TB of Storage + 78TB B/U

54 Teraflops

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The HPCS has been used to perform over 330,000,000 weapon system

simulation

runs to support MSIC All-Source Weapon System Assessments


MSIC Laboratories

Joint Research Analysis and Assessment Center

Anechoic Chamber

Materials Guidance & Control

Electro Optical / Infrared Hardware

Microelectronics Radio Frequency Hardware

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Current MSIC Focus

Terrorist threat from

small missiles

Long-range SAMs that threaten

US and allied air superiority

Threat short-range

ballistic missiles

Anti-satellite weapons

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MSIC Contracting

• Large “Omnibus” Contracts

• Small Study Contracts

• Small Mission Support Contracts


Upcoming Contracts

Contract Value

($M)

Release Date Type of RFP

Integrated System

Production and

JRAAC Support

$78 Feb 2012 Full and Open

Competition

Laboratory Operations

and Support

$35 Feb 2013 Full and Open

Competition

Offensive Missile

System Analysis and

Support

$63 June 2013 Full and Open

Competition

Defensive Systems

Analysis

$89 Sept 2013 Full and Open

Competition


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Defense Intelligence Agency

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