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MDAA Alert:
Join the Navy
October 11, 2019
The Ronald Reagan Strike Group during Valiant Shield 2018 on September 17, 2018.
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Dear Members and Friends,
The United States' globally immediate and constant mobile projection of force is
our nation's Navy and its eleven Carrier Strike Groups (CSGs). These CSGs each
provide their own large area defensive zones centered on the Aircraft Carriers across
the oceans of the world. The domains of subsurface, surface, air, and space surrounding
the Aircraft Carriers are defended by U.S. submarines, surface ships, satellite
sensors/communications, cyber, and planes that sail and fly as part of the CSG.
The U.S. Navy is leading the way to better integrate forces and capabilities operating
in the different domains to compete and win against the near peer, for the near
peer threat will win if we fight in one domain only. It remains a great challenge
to integrate and be interoperable across all of these domains for not just the Navy
but also for the Joint Force and with our allies.
The United States Navy connects these different domain platforms through the Cooperative
Engagement Capability (CEC) for the air and space domain for an integrated air defense
against cruise missiles and aircraft and satellite communications (SATCOMs) to enable
Engage on Remote (EOR) and Launch on Remote (LOR) for ballistic missile and cruise
missile defense using remote sensors that when combined produces an in depth, multilayered,
and expanded large area defensive zones. U.S. Navy Aegis Cruisers and Destroyers
provide this 360 degree air defense against cruise missiles and unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) and ballistic missile defense for the CSGs by positioning around
the Aircraft Carrier.
The Navy continues to build up, modernize, and bring forward new technologies to
enhance and expand these defended zones of the CSGs by enabling cross-domain integration
and interoperability. Driven by the growing and extensive Chinese comprehensive
threat that seeks to overmatch across the multiple domains and push the CSGs in
the Pacific, the U.S. Navy is forced to compete, develop, and deploy a cross-domain
capability, to include space and cyber, that deters and defends against the complexity
of the Chinese threat. Some of the new technologies being rapidly developed:

* Intermediate Range Conventional Prompt Strike Weapons [[link removed]]
to go on submarines and surface ships
* 300 kilowatt directed energy weapons to go on ships
* Remote Controlled Sea Ships to carry missiles/interceptors and/or sensors
* Remote Controlled Underwater Vehicles
* Hypersonic interceptors
* Advanced Multi-Domain Operational (MDO) Concept support to include wideband
hardened communication elements and sensors
Since 1983 - 36 years ago - Navy Cruisers equipped with the newly developed and
deployed Aegis ship combat system have commanded the air defense of the CSGs. A
total of 27 Ticonderoga Class Aegis Cruisers have entered service and one of these
Cruisers will always sail with each of the CSGs to command the air defense of the
group. To supplement the Cruiser in the CSG, there will always be at least one or
more Aegis Destroyers. There is a total of 82 Arleigh Burke Class Aegis Destroyers
that have entered service. All Aegis ships have a capability for conducting air
defense against aircraft, cruise missiles, and UAVs and a significant number of
Aegis ships also have a capability for conducting Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD)
operations by incorporating changes to the Aegis system's computers and software
and arming the ship with BMD specific interceptor missiles. There are five Aegis
BMD Cruisers and 37 Destroyers today that are rotationally assigned to CSGs. The
suite of combat systems that have been built into Aegis have been in response to
the BMD threat. The crown jewel of the surface fleet - Aegis Baseline 9 - allows
a ship to do both air defense to include cruise missile defense and BMD simultaneously.
There are currently 17 Aegis BMD Baseline 9 ships in the fleet - with at least one
assigned to each carrier.
Not all of the Aegis Destroyers and Aegis Cruisers are outfitted with the BMD capability
and have a mixture of different baseline processors that enables specific weapon
systems. Today there are 42 BMD capable Aegis ships and 17 are Baseline 9, the
most modern system. There are an additional seven new construction Baseline 9 Destroyers
on contract or already under construction in the nation's shipyards. Additionally,
all 21 Flight IIA Destroyers currently in service will be upgraded to Baseline 9
by 2028. The Missile Defense Review, published in January this year, called for
all 87 Aegis Destroyers in the U.S. Navy fleet to be BMD capable. There are other
specific BMD missions for the Navy in addition to the air defense of the CSGs that
require numerous ships:

* BMD for Europe and Israel - Four ships out of Rota, Spain
* Aegis Ashore for Europe - Two in Romania and Poland
* BMD for Japan, Korea and the United States (including Continental U.S. and
Guam) - Six ships in 7th Fleet Yokosuka, Japan
* BMD for Gulf Coalition Council, the Arabian Gulf, and surge for Europe -
12 BMD ships on homeported on west coast and 17 BMD ships homeported on east
coast deployed on rotations to 5th and 6th Fleets
* BMD for Hawaii - Three BMD ships homeported in Pearl Harbor
The newest Aegis Destroyers being procured from 2017 forward and subsequent years
are being built to a new design called the Flight III version. These new ships are
now being equipped with a new radar - called the Air and Missile Defense Radar or
SPY-6 radar [[link removed]]
- and will replace the Air Defense Command of the CSGs. Flight III Destroyers are
slated to start entering service in the 2020s. [[link removed]]
Near future potential deployments for U.S. Navy Aegis BMD ships will soon include
a proven Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) intercept capability, with the
Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA interceptor, for the U.S. homeland to defend
Hawaii, the west coast, and the east coast of the United States. U.S. allies of
Norway, Spain, the Republic of Korea, Australia, and Japan, have and are acquiring
Aegis ships, some including with the BMD capability.
The more Aegis BMD ships and Baseline 9 ships the Navy can deploy, the safer the
United States and the world will be. The United States Navy is on the leading edge
of integration of cross domain platforms to best defend large area zones.
Join the Navy!
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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.
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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