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The Defense Intelligence Agency’s Missile and Space Intelligence Center has begun work on the second phase of a major expansion in Huntsville, breaking ground Aug. 26 on a facility designed to boost modeling, analysis and high-performance computing for missile and space defense.
Acting DIA Director Christine Bordine led the ceremony at the MSIC campus, with attendees including Alabama Rep. Dale Strong and the principal deputy director of national intelligence, according to the agency.
The new Modeling Analysis and Computer Exploitation building is part of MSIC’s Advanced Analysis Complex at the Richard C. Shelby Center for Missile Intelligence. DIA said the project will add expanded simulation capacity, dedicated analytic workspaces and a supercomputing center to support the Defense Department and partner organizations.
The effort builds on a multiyear campus expansion. MSIC’s current campus dates to a 1998 groundbreaking, and the newest expansion began in 2023. Phase II follows two years of construction on the first phase, the Materiel Exploitation Center.
MSIC produces scientific and technical assessments of foreign weapons systems for warfighters, program managers and policymakers. DIA said the added computing power and modeling-and-simulation capability are intended to help the United States address increasingly complex future threats in the missile and space domains.
DIA’s core mission is to deliver intelligence on foreign militaries in support of U.S. national security and military operations.
