Space & Missile Systems Center - MHA

The Space & Missile Systems Center - MHA is a key initiative under the Space Systems Command (SSC), tasked with equipping U.S. and allied forces with operational space and missile systems. The primary goal is to enhance performance, strengthen business operations, and achieve efficiencies that can be redirected to higher priority needs. This involves adding approximately 83 acquisition professionals to support these objectives. The focus is on ensuring that space acquisition processes are agile and responsive to emerging threats, maintaining a strategic advantage.

A significant objective of the Space & Missile Systems Center - MHA is to implement an enterprise approach to space acquisition. This approach aims to increase innovation and resiliency by leveraging international, commercial, and mission partnerships. The program manages priorities according to an integrated unclassified/classified enterprise space architecture. By expanding acquisition authorities and contract mechanisms, it seeks to deliver capabilities more swiftly through experimentation, prototyping, risk reduction, and other efforts.

The program falls under Budget Activity 6, RDT&E Management Support, which encompasses research, development, test, and evaluation efforts necessary for sustaining or modernizing installations or operations. This includes providing a professional government civilian acquisition workforce in support of all Space Systems Command Headquarters Activities. These activities may involve staff support, studies, technical analysis, and prototyping to ensure system resiliency and situational awareness in contested space domains.

In fiscal year 2025, there is a noted decrease in funding compared to the previous year due to adjustments in civilian pay repricing. Despite this reduction, the program continues its commitment to supporting the Space Systems Command's management headquarters activities with a focus on maintaining a robust acquisition workforce. The strategic execution of these objectives ensures that SSC remains equipped to address current and future challenges in space operations effectively.