Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center, Military defense facility in Colorado, United States

The Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center is a military facility at Schriever Space Force Base in Colorado Springs that coordinates national ballistic missile defense systems. The center manages the technical integration of various defense components and monitors their interaction during live operations.

The center began as the Joint National Test Facility and was later renamed the Joint National Integration Center before taking its current name, the Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center. It is housed in a 62,802 m² multi-purpose complex at Schriever Space Force Base in Colorado. In 2011 it operated around the clock with a budget of roughly 83 million US dollars, and spending was planned to fall to about 55 million dollars a year as defense priorities shifted.

The center's work is not limited to analysis: it develops joint and combined missile defense doctrine, requirements and concepts of operations, and runs wargames and simulations for combatant commands. It also integrates space asset exploitation and battle management, command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (BM/C4I) into those exercises.

The center operates around the clock, 24/7, and its largest single budget item is running the data center. It is a secured military installation on Schriever Space Force Base, so access is not open to the public and any visit would be arranged through the base and the Missile Defense Agency.

The MDIOC occupies a 62,802 m² multi-purpose complex at Schriever Space Force Base and runs around the clock. In 2011 its budget was about 83 million US dollars, with the data center the largest single item at 20.5 million dollars, a figure planned to rise to nearly 26 million dollars by 2013 while overall spending was to fall to roughly 55 million dollars a year.