Ballistic Missile Defense

Managing and developing missile defense efforts are core CTI competencies.

Our team is involved in virtually every facet – contract management to target production – of our nation’s mission to protect its citizens from ballistic missile attack.


CTI’s federal team members have education, professional credentials, know-how, and hands-on experience in the following areas:

Program Office (programmatic and engineering) Support:
  • Command, control, battle management, and communications
  • Kinetic energy interceptor
  • Multiple kill vehicle
  • Sensors
Systems Engineering:
  • Requirements and integration
  • Analysis, requirements flow down, specifications, interface control documents, telemetry plans
  • Discrimination algorithms development
  • Counter-Counter measures
  • Guidance, navigation and control (GN&C) design and independent verification and validation of autopilot/ GN&C designs
  • High fidelity 6 degree of freedom (DOF) simulation modeling and analysis
  • IV & V of Autopilot/GN&C Designs
  • Flight reconstruction, simulation verification
  • Theater ballistic missile target design: Hera, SRALT, LRALT
  • Testing
  • Operational test agency liaison
  • Mission planning, range coordination, and test experience
  • Flight test conduct: Hera, Titan IV, SRALT, LRALT, THAAD
  • Range support: White Sands Missile Range, Pacific Missile Range Facility, Reagan Test Site, Pt. Mugu, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Eglin Air Force Base
  • Range safety analyses, including debris analysis and worst case turns
  • Telemetry displays, vehicle interface
  • Formal qualification testing, hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL), modal surveys, system level Integration testing, wind tunnel
  • Launch site integration and flight test
  • Post-flight data reduction and analysis
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