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Homeland Security

Missile Defense Modeling And Simulation Advances

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Monday, January 5th, 2009

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The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has advanced modeling and simulation for missile defense testing, the agency announced. MDA oversaw successful execution of Flight Support Ground Test 03b (GTF-03b). The GTF-03b test event was a path-finding System-level Post-Flight Reconstruction (SPFR) of the Flight Test Other (FTX)-03 Flight Test to provide data in support of the validation of Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) models and simulations. The test was conducted at the MDA Combined Test Force Ground Test Center located at the…

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