Email from September 29th, 2025 Click here to view the Alert on the MDAA website Follow and Support MDAA   MDAA Alert: Golden Clouds (Highlights and Transcript) MDAA's 84th Congressional Roundtable Virtual Event, Golden Clouds, September 29th, 2025 Dear Members and Friends, "Aloha, ladies and gentlemen, from Hawaii, from the University of Hawaii, from our Artemis program that's here. We are here, just flew in from Germany last night, but one of the most wonderful things I saw this morning was the sunrise over Diamond Head and a cloud, a golden cloud over Diamond Head. I know there's some fate here, and it was also pretty cool to fly, whatever that distance was, it was 12 hours to get to San Francisco across the world, and there were clouds, you were blanketed by clouds. It's a friendly reminder, especially going into Hawaii, these vast areas that clouds are everywhere, blanketing the earth. This is our 84th virtual on the Golden Clouds for America. I am Riki Ellison. I am the founder and chairman of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, founded back in 2001, excuse me, 2002. Also, real strong here in the Pacific. I'm from the Pacific, and so it's just awesome to be here for that. We have just been over in Europe and involved with the Eastern flank deterrent line, which is a nine NATO nation capability integrated across the entire 4,000 kilometers of the Eastern front, and also of the Eastern Sentry that Grinch just put forward two weeks ago to fight the Russian drone incursions. And what's happening over there is it's about being able to get mass. Mass. And to be able to defeat the Russian mass of cheap, attributable, distributable drones. And we can't, we can get away with it, and we probably will a little bit with we have these exotic systems. We have systems that can take 10, 20, 30, maybe 100 down, but that doesn't solve the problem. That doesn't solve the deterrent problem. And I like to quote C.D. Donahue, who is a land Europe commander, that his mission set for everybody is to be able to defeat the mass and then enable overwhelming violence on them. And so that is deterrence. We talked about that earlier. The deterrence is to be able to apply your offense against anything and be able to get through it, the political will to do it, and the ability to defend from a counterattack. So, the Eastern flight deterrent line, just on this shot, has to have an ability to share data across the entire nine and massive amounts of data. So that is driving a cloud solution. And a cloud solution is being used very effectively in Ukraine, bringing all its data in on a daily basis on that. So, NATO is moving forward. They're behind with creating their own cloud. The US with EFDL are gonna be aggressively in front to be able to create that capability fast. And when you look at this and then you step back and you look at the mission for Golden Dome, which we're gonna spend $175 billion in three years to defend the American homeland, the amount of data that you have to collect and process and be able to have a C2 to distribute effectively to your effectors is massive, massive, massive, massive. And they, [General] Mike Guetlein, the single most valuable thing about Golden Dome is to create the effective C2 that can bring all these data points together, number one on it. You can sit back and look at this. If you compare this to a chess game or chess pieces, we're not playing chess, we're playing three-dimensional chess, we're not playing three-dimensional chess, we're playing quantum chess. And we're real good. We have the best rooks, the best bishops, the best queens. We can play with those better than anybody in the world, but we don't have pawns, we don't. And pawns are critical to enable both offense and defense and territorial terrain and cheap and attributable. Russia has pawns, China has pawns. And we're here in the Pacific where that threat of mass is greater than the Russian threat of mass. And this is not gonna be solved with stovepipe service, C2 systems, and not gonna be solved with systems to systems and integrate that. It has to be pushed out to the best in the world. And the best of the world right now, and this is commercial. And the commercial ability to process with the supercomputer of the cloud, which means they can scale better than anybody. They can store data better than anything, and they can compute data. That's what we have to do. And this discussion today is about, is educating that cloud perspective, and really the revolution that our military, that our world has to go through to create cheap attributable capabilities in mass. In mass, and be able to operate that data. " Mr. Riki Ellison, MDAA Founder and Chairman Speakers: General (Ret.) Glen VanHerck, Former Commander of the United States Northern Command General (Ret.) Charles Flynn, Former Commanding General of U.S. Army Pacific Riki Ellison, MDAA Founder and Chairman Q/A: JD Gainey, MDAA Board Member Click here to view transcript Click here to view recording Winners Associate With Winners To Win! Riki Ellison Chairman and Founder Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance   Click Here to Join MDAA _____________________________________________________________________ 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. 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