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MDAA Alert:
Closed Skies, Open Space
May 26, 2020

(Top photo) A United States OC-135 Open Skies aircraft takes off from Offutt Air
Force Base, NE. (Bottom photo) A Russian Tu-214ON in flight. (Top Photo: DVIDS
- U.S. Air Force photo by Charles J. Haymond; Bottom Photo: Wikicommons - Oleg Belyakov)
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Dear Members and Friends,
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On Friday, the United States submitted its notice to the other parties of its intent
to withdraw [[link removed]]
from the Open Skies Treaty that was first envisioned by President Eisenhower in
1955 [[link removed]]
to create stability within a nuclear arms race and stability within a Mutual Assured
Destruction doctrine that enabled arms control. Six months after this notice, the
U.S. will no longer be a part of the treaty and its required obligations. In 1992,
twenty six countries signed the Open Skies Treaty with the United States and Russia
as a strategic message of unity and trust in transparency in keeping stability with
Russia and the United States. As part of treaty, the U.S. operates a OC-135B Open
Skies aircraft and Russia operates the Tupolev Tu-214ON, Tupolev Tu-154M-LK1, and
AN-30 to conduct short notice reconnaissance flyovers of the other parties' territory.
These 27-year old U.S. planes that we are refurbishing, maintaining and manning
at a cost of $250 million and with an expected new replacement plane are becoming
redundant in the technologies being used today and in the future for surveillance
of Russia. The essential mission and effect that they were designed for in 1993
is in existence across all five domains with advanced technologies to clearly know
what Russia does in terms of weapon testing, development, and deployment.

The United States' intent and resolve to withdraw from arms control treaties with
Russia on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) [[link removed]]
and now Clear Skies though violations and outdated were factors, it is primary driven
by competition with China which these treaties do not include, restrict, or offer
transparency of China and its weapons proliferation. The withdrawal aligns with
the 2018 National Defense Strategy [[link removed]]
as recognizing both Russia and China as near-peer competitors. China has clearly
established itself as a global power and asserted its intent for global dominance,
which it will by no means inhibit or restrict its "one belt one road" strategy [[link removed]]
by signing an arms control treaty with the United States and Russia. Future arms
control with Russia, while having no arms control restrictions with China does
not abide, secure, or follow the intent of the National Defense Strategy of the
United States of America. The world, our allies, and our nation would be safer and
more secure if all three of these superpowers agreed, complied with, and validated
together a wide spectrum of arms control from hypersonics to nuclear weapons.

Missile defense both regional and strategic now becomes even more vital and a critical
requirement for stability and security of the United States and its allies. Dynamic
and evolving missile defense capabilities with allies and partners, that entails
integrated layers of cross-domain capabilities and effectors to bring joint and
allied convergence of these systems brings efficiency in cost and capability to
provide stability and deterrence today against all threats. China and Russia continue
to increase investment and aggressive behavior to test, develop, and deploy complex
cruise, ballistic, and hypersonic missiles from standoff ranges for anti-access
and area denial (A2/AD) zones in international waters, other states' territories,
and space to challenge the United States and its allies.

Future space based and airborne discrimination sensors for over the horizon persistent
warning, tracking and fire control for the full spectrum of threat missiles have
to be enabled on mass and cheap capabilities that can be replaced, upgraded, and
prolific. Focus and resources are specifically going towards deploying the Hypersonic
and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS). HBTSS will be a global and persistent
constellation of low earth orbit (LEO) sensors that can do wide and narrow focus
on a spectrum of missile threats to provide detailed discrimination, tracking,
and targeting data to the current Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications
(C2BMC), the future Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2), and Advanced Battle
Management System (ABMS) to enable convergence of effectors and fires. HBTSS will
be a game changer, leveling the cost curve and being a rapid risk mitigator for
all effectors/fires/interceptors deployed today and in the future.

Deployed regional and strategic missile defense capabilities can provide a bridge
of stability of deterrence to find a hopeful equal arms control participation amongst
China, Russia and the United States.
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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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