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MDAA Alert:
Termination
August 21, 2019
A GBI in the Silo.
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Dear Members and Friends,
"First, we will prioritize the defense of the American people above all else. Our
review calls for 20 new ground based interceptors at Fort Greely, Alaska and new
radars and sensors to immediately detect foreign missiles launched against our
great nation. We are committed to establishing a missile defense program that can
shield every city in the United States." - President Donald Trump speaking at the
release of the 2019 Missile Defense Review (MDR) at the Pentagon on January 17,
2019.
The MDR in January stated that by the beginning of 2023 the additional 20 GBIs would
be deploying. The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget
request released in March stated, "MDA anticipates emplacing 20 additional GBIs
tipped with the RKV beginning in the FY 2025 timeframe."
Tomorrow, the Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) that was solely selected and scheduled
to be on each tip of the next 20 new Ground-Based Interceptors (GBIs) for the enhanced
defense of the United States Homeland from North Korea and Iran, will be terminated
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by Dr. Michael Griffin, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
"Ending the program was the responsible thing to do... Development programs sometimes
encounter problems. After exercising due diligence, we decided the path we're going
down wouldn't be fruitful, so we're not going down that path anymore. This decision
supports our efforts to gain full value from every future taxpayer dollar spent
on defense." - Dr. Michael Griffin, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and
Engineering.
This decision will delay the deployment of any additional GBIs for the defense of
the United States homeland to the 2030 timeframe at the earliest under the current
acquisition requirements to compete for a required new and modernized GBI solution,
to adequately test the solution, and to prove and certify the solution in operational
and realistic conditions with operators of the system. The decision by Dr. Griffin
also delays the modernization of the current 44 GBIs, currently made up of three
generations of technical capability with the earliest from the 1990s and the last
generation with the highest reliability just proven in the salvo launch of FTG-11
on March 25, 2019 [[link removed]],
which puts the United States homeland more at risk until a new GBI solution is deployed
as North Korea and Iran continue to develop their Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
(ICBM) capabilities and increase their capacity in numbers over the next decade.
This decision now force functions offensive left of launch capabilities to include
cyber, more investment in a premature air-to-air kinetic boost phase interceptor,
and a reliance on a underlayer of Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) ships
by increasing the deployment and existing production of the Navy's Standard Missile-3
(SM-3) Block IIA interceptors as well as Baseline 9 & 10 Aegis BMD ships for ICBM
defense that is scheduled to be proven next year by MDA to help mitigate the national
security risk over the next decade until the new GBI solution is developed, tested
and deployed. The underlayer of U.S. Navy Aegis BMD is not a substitute for the
massive defensive coverage of the North American Continent provided by the Ground-Based
Midcourse Defense (GMD) system with the current 40 GBIs located in Fort Greely,
Alaska and four GBIs in Vandenburg AFB, California. Navy Aegis BMD ships can supplement
the GMD system by providing an existing mobile capability for smaller regional areas
of the United States as they are doing for Europe and Israel from the threat of
shorter range ballistic missiles.
Dr. Griffin is absolutely correct in absorbing the risk and terminating the RKV
program to compete, develop, and produce the best technical solution or solutions
with the most reliability to put on top of a $80 billion plus invested GMD architecture
to best defend North America from the future complex ICBM threats that the United
States will face in the future.
"We are committed to establishing a missile defense program that can shield every
city in the United States"
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Respectfully,
Riki Ellison
Chairman and Founder
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
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MDAA is a non-profit, non-partisan tax-exempt 501(c) (4) organization. Our mission
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.
We are a membership-funded organization that does not advocate on behalf of any
specific system, technology, architecture or entity. Founded in 2002, MDAA is the
only organization in existence whose primary mission is to recruit, organize, and
mobilize proponents to advocate for the critical need of missile defense. Visit
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for more information.
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