MDA Successfully Completes BMDS-Related Ground Test
Earlier this week, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced that it successfully completed the Flight Support Ground Test 03b (GTF-03b) to provide data to improve Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) modeling and simulations.
The test took place at the Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, during the week of December 8-12. From the press release:
“The test used the MDA Missile Defense System Exerciser (MDSE) to connect and control BMDS Hardware-in the-Loop (HWIL) Laboratories located across the United States to emulate the functionality resident in BMDS systems that participated in FTX-03…The GTF-03b showed provided a demonstration of the ability to conduct a System-level Post-flight Test Reconstruction and collect the required information to provide data comparison of the simulation performance with the performance of the system interactions of FTX-03 components under test.”
The MDA conducts ground tests to develop new missile defense technologies.
Tags: Ballistic Missile Defense System, Missile Defense Agency