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defense budgets around the world continue
to shrink, nations are faced with the difficult
challenge of maintaining a viable military
and industrial capability. Reduced budgets
and the likelihood of operating within a coalition
environment are forcing defense planners to
reevaluate long standing procedures, policies
and trends in weapons systems development.
As a result, international armaments cooperation
is increasingly being pursued as an important
element of coalition warfare planning and
to advance broad national security objectives
in the post-Cold War era.
BMDO is responsible for managing,
directing, and executing the acquisition of
joint ballistic missile defense systems. The
Director of BMDO is the Acquisition Executive
authority for assigned missile defense systems.
The BMDO acquisition mission consists of three
dimensions:
• Develop
and deploy missile defenses for delivery to
the Military Departments and Combatant Commanders,
to protect deployed forces and homeland;
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Ensure interoperability of those systems among
our forces and those of our coalition partners;
and;
• Maintain an effective and advanced
missile defense technology base.
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| Objectives |
 MDO
seeks to support DoD's objectives for international
cooperation through pursuit of the following
four principal objectives.
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Promoting and assisting allied acquisition
of BMD capabilities
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Seeking allies' assistance in U.S. system
acquisition programs
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Promoting U.S./allied interoperability
• Assuring U.S. access to "advanced"
missile-related technology
The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization
is responsible for the development of defenses
against the full range of ballistic missile
threats. BMDO, through the U.S. industrial
and scientific community, provides research
and development capabilities, technical and
design expertise, advanced technologies, and
manufacturing infrastructure to acquire active
missile defense.
BMDO also engages our allies and friends in
cooperative BMD research and development.
This cooperation ranges from work in the areas
of battle management, command and control
(BM/C2), countermeasures, lethality, technical
research and development, trials and experiments,
to bilateral agreements for cooperation interoperability
and to resolve operation issues, to robust
bilateral and multilateral system research
and development programs.
Cooperation with friends and allies allows
BMDO to:
• Forge closer ties by strengthening
bilateral and multilateral defense relationships;
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Strengthen U.S. economic security by leveraging
of U.S. resources through cost-sharing or
reducing costs for development;
•
Enhance defense capabilities by improving
performance of defense systems and achieving
maximum interoperability between U.S. and
coalition forces; and
• Promote
maximum use of commercial and dual-use industrial
capabilities.
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Approach
BMDO's approach to international
participation in the development and deployment
of TMD systems builds upon consultations
with our allies and friends, technical and
acquisition activities and combined military
efforts. Through BMDO advocacy, TMD-related
activities are evident both multilaterally
through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) Alliance, bilaterally through agreements
with U.S. allies, and in unilateral actions
by individual nations. 
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