Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center

The Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center (formerly the Joint National Integration Center ) of the Missile Defense Agency of the U.S. Supports Unified Combatant Command for research and development, test, evaluation, and in operations and provides training support. In addition, the Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center ( MDIOC ) performs tasks for the Anti-Ballistic Missile ( ICBM) was. The MDIOC is Colorado housed in a 62 802 m² Merhzweckanlage on the Schriever Air Force Base.

The MDIOC is primarily a research center with the objectives of the analysis, design, development, integration, testing and verification of contracts for the development and deployment of missile defense systems. It is the technical integration and coordinated deployment of missile defense all arms support ( CONOPS doctrine ). To this end, it examines scenarios of missile defense, the use of space technology, computer-aided battle guide ( BM/C4I ) and provides services to the general conflict simulation available ( Wargames ).

The center operates 24/7 and had a 2011 approximate budget of 83 million U.S. dollars. For subsequent years, provided the expenditure to reduce a year because of changes in priorities of the Ministry of Defense of the United States at about 55 million U.S. dollars. The largest single item of the budget is provided for the operation of the data center. The expenditure for these to be expanded against the other savings of 20.5 million U.S. dollars in 2011 to nearly 26 million U.S. dollars in 2013.