Under the Have Gold III program, Schafer performs “Threat Research and Development, Data Collection and Analysis” for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NAIC) at Wright-Patterson AFB. Schafer and its subcontractors perform engineering tasks to support data collection and analysis of potential foreign threat systems including ballistic missiles, air-breathing vehicles, and satellites. This effort includes test programs from preliminary engineering design concept through collection and analysis of data from the actual flight test. Have Gold III efforts contribute to the NAIC assessments and evaluations of ballistic missiles and air-breathing platforms including aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAV), remote operating aircraft (ROA), micro aerial vehicle (MAV), and cruise missiles. These defense threats assessments are based on efforts including design analysis through flying test vehicles (launch vehicles and UAVs) to represent the ballistic missiles and air-breathing platforms. Specifically, this effort supports NAIC, the Missile Defense Agency, and other programs in developing estimates of capabilities, limitations, reliability, and vulnerabilities of various systems/subsystems. The scope of Schafer's task order contract with NAIC includes: foreign defense technology assessments rocket and UAV flight tests payload design and integration monitoring flight tests with ground, sea, air, and space based radar and electro-optical sensors data collection and analysis modeling and simulation discrimination multi-sensor data fusion The program also provides fast track responses to support the research and development of defense related programs/projects and threat validation of: aircraft and associated weapons electronics systems military space materials, structures, and manufacturing directed energy weapons aerospace power, propulsion, sensors, and C4I chemical and biological warfare