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MDAA Alert:
A Long Time Coming
April 29, 2020

Delta 180 launch on September 5, 1986. (Photo: Federation of American Scientists)
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Dear Members and Friends,
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On Friday, April 24, after nine months [[link removed]]
of long anticipation and great expectations, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) released
its request for proposals (RFP) [[link removed]]
to build the Next-Generation Interceptor (NGI) for the defense of the United States
homeland. The MDA RFP has a deadline of July 31 this year and was submitted to industry
to develop the NGI as a wholistic replacement for the aging fleet of 44 Ground Based
Interceptors (GBIs), for deployment as early as 2028. A brand-new set of capabilities
that will incorporate the best lessons learned from the three generations of the
Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) over 20 years currently on the GBI fleet and
from the Navy's evolving Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) [[link removed]]
interceptors, as it too would incorporate the most advanced hardware technologies
to host frequent software upgrades for continual lifetime modernization. A new generational
set of efficiency and effectiveness that will look to bring the concept of swarming
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of multiple smart exoatmospheric kill vehicles [[link removed]]
on one NGI. With the capacity and capability to disperse in intervals in space for
layering that would all have persistent communication to existing and future space-based
discrimination sensors and satellite constellations such as the Hypersonic Ballistic
Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS). A common kill vehicle that potentially could be applied
on two stage boosters, on the SM-3, be transportable and integrated onto future
interceptor booster stacks. An inherent counter space capability in the Low Earth
Orbit (LEO) for the U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command Commander would exist
in the NGI. This capability being on a single interceptor significantly force multiplies
interceptor capacity and reduces the cost per kill and significantly reduces shot
doctrine while increasing reliability and effectiveness. The current GBI interceptors
are estimated [[link removed]]
to be $80 million per interceptor with a varying shot doctrine of multiple GBIs
for each incoming intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) threat providing a limited
capability. The simple NGI math gives great cost savings plus great effectiveness
and great efficiency total for a generational leap in deterrence capability to those
that threaten the United States with ICBMs. Once developed, tested, and deployed
it is a tremendous win for the defense of the U.S. homeland and assurance to our
allies and partners.
The pathfinder, the proof of principle and the foremost fundamental building block
of the GBI and now the NGI for its ability to operate, sense, discriminate and intercept
in space was created in 1986 by Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering,
Dr. Mike Griffin. Dr Griffin was the chief engineer of the Delta 180 intercept
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in space of the first ever direct Hit-to-Kill intercept that proved it could be
done and was brought from concept to interception in just 16 months. The Delta 180
used a suite of Brilliant Pebbles [[link removed]]
sensors producing a direct head on intercept as it demonstrated that the United
States could do very sophisticated intercepts in space and did it with the speed,
accuracy, and fidelity needed to convince the community that all of the analysis
of sensor constellations had a sound basis for hit to kill technology. Dr. Griffin
was awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal for this
achievement and for this exceptional leadership in aerospace engineering. In 2014
MDA awarded Dr. Griffin the Ronald Reagan Award [[link removed]]
and on behalf of First Lady Nancy Reagan for her husband President Ronald Reagan,
MDAA presented Dr. Griffin a personal inscription from the First Lady for his leadership
on the Strategic Defense Initiative. Under Secretary Dr. Mike Griffin in his current
position is overseeing MDA and the NGI proposal in its development and deployment
as the latest generation from the Delta 180.
The existing Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system continues to fulfill its
role in creating strategic stability with a deployed and proven [[link removed]]
hit to kill capability against ICBM threats from rouge nations for the defense of
the United States homeland. The GMD system will have to continue to do its national
security objective of defending the United States homeland and deterring North Korea
since it was first deployed [[link removed]]
July 22, 2004 with a significant jump in technology with the NGI deploying in 2028.
A system that also came from the Army which had early success from the U.S. Army's
Space Command, and determined leadership from Brigadier General Eugene Fox [[link removed]]
controversial Homing Overlay Experiment (HOE) leveraging the legacy of the Sprint
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and Spartan [[link removed]]
nuclear system interceptors, which were cancelled by President Nixon in 1972 in
advent of Mutual Assured Destruction [[link removed]]
with a non-nuclear payload and a proximity simple and direct command sensor at lower
speeds and lower altitudes than the Delta 180. The HOE used a close to 15 foot net
to intercept a ballistic missile on its fourth attempt in 1984. The Army HOE was
a proof of principle for the Army Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD),
improved Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) and lower tier intercepts.
The instability of North Korea today of their leadership and future leadership,
their ICBM nuclear forces, their own internal power circle and China's influence
on them places vital United States dependency on the current GMD force of 44 missiles
and the Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) to be
at the highest readiness levels with highest reliability. Over the next eight years
there is a risk apparent from both North Korea and Iran, who recently launched a
military satellite into space [[link removed]],
growth in capacity to threaten the U.S. homeland.
The NGI could not come soon enough, it's been a long time coming.
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Respectfully,
Riki Ellison
Chairman and Founder
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
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is to make the world safer by advocating for the development and deployment of missile
defense systems to defend the United States and its allies against missile threats.
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