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MDAA Alert:
America's SHIELD
March 17, 2020

General Terrence O'Shaughnessy at HASC hearing on March 12, 2020. (Photo: Screenshot
from HASC stream on YouTube)
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Dear Members and Friends,
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In this pandemic over the past week, Russian reconnaissance aircraft entered the
Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone on March 9th [[link removed]],
the Chinese government is trying to place blame [[link removed]]
on the United States for the Coronavirus that came out of Wuhan, China, Iranian
proxies have launched rockets on three separate occasions at U.S. Bases in Iraq
[[link removed]]
killing and injuring American and allied lives, and North Korea continues to fire
missiles [[link removed]]
as it further develops its ballistic missiles, the United States Congress held a
homeland defense hearing [[link removed]]
where General Terrence O'Shaughnessy, Commander of U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM)
and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), clearly articulated:
"Number one objective, defend the homeland. Our adversaries have watched, they've
learned, they've invested to offset our strikes while exploiting our weaknesses.
They've demonstrated patterns of behavior that indicate their capability, their
capacity, and their intent to hold the homeland at risk below the nuclear threshold.
And the changing security environment makes it clear that the Arctic is no longer
a wall, the oceans are no longer protective moats, they are now avenues of approach
to our great homeland. And this highlights the increase in our adversary's presence
in the Arctic as well. To meet this challenge, we need to invest in a capable and
persistent defense that can deter adversaries, protect our critical infrastructure,
enable power projection forward, and prevent homeland vulnerabilities from being
exploited. To deter, detect, and defeat the threats arrayed against our homeland
today, U.S. NORTHCOM and NORAD are transforming our commands and our way of thinking.
We cannot defend the nation against 21st century threats with 20th century technology."
- General Terrence O'Shaughnessy the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) hearing
on FY21 Priorities for Missile Defense and Missile Defeat Programs [[link removed]]
on March 12, 2020.
21st technology to beat 21st century threats has to have an overarching operational
command & control (C2) system leveraging artificial intelligence to integrate instantly
the global persistent space, air, sea, land, and cyber sensors and effectors to
have cross-domain defense and force projection anywhere on the globe. It is the
art and technology of fusing the current capabilities across all the domains and
joint services, and eventually the allies, which each and all have their own C2
for tactical operations. It is the "Cloud" the 'big C2' - the Joint All-Domain
Command and Control (JADC2) [[link removed]]
- that would integrate the current Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications
(C2BMC) Of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the current Cooperative Engagement
Capability (CEC) of the Navy, the future Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle
Command System (IBCS) of the Army, the future Advanced Battle Management System
(ABMS) of the Air Force, and the upcoming C2 of the Space Force. Built underneath
all of this is a SHIELD for the United States homeland.
"The Strategic Homeland Integrated Ecosystem For Layer Defense, or what we're calling
SHIELD, is the architecture we need to defend our homeland against adversary threats.
As such, a layered defense needs to establish awareness in all domains from below
the oceans to the highest level of space, including the unseen cyber domain, which
are all at risk. We need a layered sensing grid with ground based interceptor now
and next generation intercept in the future, as well as an underlayer lined with
sensors that deliver domain awareness and the command and control systems that
drive engagements long before approaching our sovereign territory. We need the ability
to deploy defeat mechanisms capable of neutralizing advanced weapon systems in order
to defend the homeland. We have put great effort into these areas such as a ballistic
missile defense, along with the need to aggressively defeat additional threats to
include the ever growing cyber and cruise missile threats. Next Generation Interceptor
underlayer in a layered Homeland Defense architecture will give us the capability
we need to counter tomorrow's ballistic missile threat. We work closely with the
Missile Defense Agency to identify and incorporate trade space and bring the timeline
left." - General Terrence O'Shaughnessy the HASC hearing on FY21 Priorities for
Missile Defense and Missile Defeat Programs [[link removed]]
on March 12, 2020.
The 21st Century Shield would comprise of existing systems that grow into future
technologies and systems once proven and tested. The baseline for an active first
defense of the Shield is the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) with its current
44 Ground-Based Interceptors (GBIs) which will get a generational leap with a new
fleet of interceptors, a decade from now called the Next Generation Interceptor
(NGI) fused through MDA's C2BMC. The second line of active defense will be the U.S.
Navy's Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system centered on its CEC that can
do "engage on remote" to leverage the best cruise missile defense interceptor the
U.S. has - the Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) - and the SM-3 Block IIA interceptors,
which both are in production and the latter being tested against intercontinental
ballistic missiles (ICBMs) this year. The third line of active defense will be the
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor, which is capable today
of "engage on remote" with its Army/Navy Transportable Radar Surveillance (AN/TPY-2)
and the Patriot systems with the Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors
which can perform well against cruise missiles as this system will fuse with the
future IBCS to have the future Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS)
and future Indirect Fire Protection Capability-Increment 2 (IFPC-Inc 2). THAAD will
also get an "extended range" capability that will be added and tested against ICBMs
and would be connected through C2BMC as would the ICBM Capable SM3 Block IIAs for
the defense of the United States The fourth line is long distance fires from the
U.S. Air Force in their advanced air platforms with an Air-Launched Rapid Response
Weapon (ARRW) hypersonic strike missile and active air-to-air cruise missile defense.
Along with the Army and Navy who are working together on developing a common glide
body hypersonic strike missile for a, land-based and sea-based respectively, Long
Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) as well as long distance precision fires.
"Now working closely with Strategic Command, Northern Command, and Indo-Pacific
Command, we're also undertaking architectural work and advanced technology development
needed to support hypersonic missile defense, and cruise missile defense of the
homeland. A critical part of this architecture is a persistent space global sensor
capability to provide full track custody supporting fire control engagements. We're
also pursuing advances in joint all domain and global command and control to support
Northern Command and countering cruise missiles. Finally, MDA is investing the development
of a layered homeland defense capability by adding sensors and modifying the Aegis
Weapon System, the SM-3 block 2A missile and a THAAD weapon system, and communications
command and control. Later this year, we will conduct the first Aegis SM-3 block
2A intercept of a simple ICBM. We are also assessing upgrades to the THAAD interceptor
for testing against an ICBM. I want to emphasize that these regional missile defense
systems are not replacements for the long range missile defense capability provided
by GMD. However, these capabilities within a layered homeland defense architecture
provides flexibility and options for the nation to increase the effectiveness of
our defenses." - Vice Admiral Jon Hill, Director of MDA, at the HASC hearing on
FY21 Priorities for Missile Defense and Missile Defeat Programs [[link removed]]
on March 12, 2020.
The 21st Century American Shield begins its forging this year with an upcoming event
at Nellis Air Force Base at the Air Warfare Center under the Air Combat Command
in demonstration of JADC2 and ABMS to execute a 360 degree cruise missile defense
event with sensors and effectors. Further forging of the shield this year will be
the FTM-44 test of the SM-3 Block IIA against an ICBM target that would put this
under-layer capability on the ground. Guam and Hawaii could be the first potential
sites and test-beds for land based ICBM capable SM-3 Block IIAs with Guam also being
a testbed for cruise missile defense sensors and interceptors like the SM-6.
The adaptation of the 21st Century Shield hammered out at Guam and Hawaii quickly
and efficiently would be the first version that would lend off variants of the Shield
to the United States Homeland, the number one objective, in Alaska, Hawaii, the
East Coast, the Midwest, the South, and the West Coast to deter, detect, and defeat
the threats arrayed against our homeland today.
"We at NORTHCOM and NORAD have declared 2020 as a year of homeland defense, and
are moving forward with the implementation of SHIELD." - General Terrence O'Shaughnessy.
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Respectfully,
Riki Ellison
Chairman and Founder
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
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