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MDAA Alert:
Change Agent
June 26, 2020

(From left to right) Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy John Rood, Undersecretary
of Defense for Research and Engineering Dr. Michael Griffin, former MDA Director
LTG Samuel Greaves, and Riki Ellison on September 4, 2018, at MDAA's 20th Congressional
Roundtable on Space-Based Missile Defense at the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
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Dear Members and Friends,
Disruption forces change. Only those rare few that have the courage, the confidence,
the grit, the knowledge, the depth, and the breadth of vast experience can be disruptive
agents that force addressing necessary change. Dr. Michael Griffin is one of them,
an absolute pioneer of our nation's missile defense systems from the Delta 180 [[link removed]]
to the Space Transport Layer [[link removed]]
today. He is a disrupter that has forced a necessary change in the directions and
the processes that were disabling our nation's future in its ability to lead and
be preeminent.
"The National Defense Strategy is today all about recognizing that there are threats
to that rules-based order, and that the world is not likely to do better under a
different regime than it does today. So it is up to us to defend that, and in order
to defend that order we must now go to space." - Dr. Mike Griffin at MDAA's Space-Based
Missile Defense Congressional Roundtable at Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington,
DC on September 4, 2018.
"In my first hearing after taking this job I was asked to testify in front of the
full House Armed Services Committee chaired by Congressman Thornberry, and at one
point in our discussion, he asked me why, in my opinion, we were so slow. I told
him we were mired down in the process, we can retain either our preeminence or
our process but we cannot keep both." - Dr. Mike Griffin at MDAA's Huntsville Breakfast
of Champions in Huntsville, AL on August 8, 2018.
"But what people actually do is, as soon as they can, they develop missiles to go
after those they wish to aggress against. I just note that that is what the world
seems to be so we need to respond to what the world is, rather than the way the
world could be or should be. Secondly, the number of nations and societies which
are capable of doing so seems to be increasing all the time and there is still
only one of us. Thirdly, we just can't do what we need to do in missile defense
without space. Now the ground missile defense program which Lt General Sam Greaves
currently leads is effective at what it does, which is to handle a medium-sized
threat in the midcourse. It cannot affect global persistence on the surveillance
side, it cannot differentiate the missile defense side from the sensor side. It
detects an incoming threat after it is well inbound, it is not set up to detect
hypersonic threats, it is not set up to detect shorter inter-range threats- on
the interceptor side it is capable of going after objects in midcourse, but that
is all. It is very good at what it does, I have reason to know that our statistics
these days are very good, but it only does what it was designed to do." - Dr. Mike
Griffin at MDAA's Space-Based Missile Defense Congressional Roundtable at Dirksen
Senate Office Building in Washington, DC on September 4, 2018.
A few of Dr. Griffin's solutions to the problem that he identified above that will
become legacies for the United States of America:

* Established the Space Development Agency (SDA) and a sound global architecture
to track and target hypersonic weapons in flight and a rapid deployment plan to
put that space sensor system [[link removed]]
up in Low Earth Orbit to provide the United States the necessary capabilities to
negate the hypersonic threat.
* Modernized the Ground-Based Interceptors (GBIs) by disrupting and canceling the
Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) to put forward the Next-Generation Interceptor [[link removed]](NGI).
* Invigorated Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and led the hypersonic
offensive development for the United States to compete on hypersonic weapons against
the near peers.
We recognize the exceptional talent of Dr. Mike Griffin to bring forth these solutions,
it is now the responsibility and leadership of the "team" to implement, develop,
and execute these solutions. We greatly thank and appreciate Dr. Mike Griffin for
his service to the nation as the first Undersecretary of Defense for Research and
Engineering from February 19, 2018 to July 10, 2020.
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Respectfully,
Riki Ellison
Chairman and Founder
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
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only organization in existence whose primary mission is to recruit, organize, and
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