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MDAA Alert:
15 Years of C2BMC That Has Made Our Nation a Safer Place
November 8, 2019
(From left to right): Lt. Gen. (Ret) Trey Obering, Mr. John Bier, MAJ Robyn Pigman,
Mr. Tony Manganiello, and Mr. Riki Ellison in the Capitol Building on November 6,
2019.
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Dear Members and Friends,
It is the 15th anniversary of the Command, Control, Battle Management, and Communications
(C2BMC) and which is the blueprint, the architecture that goes first before all
the sensors and shooters that go forth and a system that is often mis-looked and
misunderstood. C2BMC went first, 15 years ago, before the initial operation capability
of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system and interceptors were operationally
deployed in July of 2004. We took the time to bring together the overall leader
and first implementer of C2BMC, retired Lieutenant General Trey Obering - former
Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Director from 2004-2008. We added to the discussion
the current Program Director for C2BMC at MDA, Mr. John Bier, one of NORTHCOM's
current Missile Defense Officers, Major Robyn Pigman, and Mr. Tony Manganiello,
former Chief Administrative Officer of Virtu Financial on similarities and lessons
learned from the integration of algorithms and rapid technology growth in the wall
street financial sector that can translate and be carried over to improve command
and control systems. For your awareness and information here is our transcript of
the event [[link removed]]
to celebrate 15 years of C2BMC and its future.

"Just like at the time we started fielding C2BMC, we were using the state of the
art technology. A lot of that technology was being generated within the defense
industry, within the national labs, etc. But that's not the case anymore. I think
in 10 years we're going to look back and say, "Oh, my God, we were on the cusp of
a revolution in the technology." If you look at just ... I'm sure many of you in
here use Uber. The technology in Uber alone, if you apply that to the missile defense
mission is incredible. You combine that with artificial intelligence, with a nanosecond
technology that's coming out with the commercialization of space, machine learning,
I think you're going to see a revolution in the technology, where you're going to
see command and control and what I call C2BMC at the edge, where you really are
going to be able to operate faster and faster and faster. You're going to be able
to sort enormous amounts of data. The F-35 sweeps up enormous amounts of data. That's
just one sensor, right? You begin to combine those in ways that we never even thought
possible. I think, and that applies to going to space as well. So I think we're
going to look back in 10 years and say, "Oh, my gosh, this was an inflection point,"
as Riki mentioned earlier, and we really are going to go to the next level." - Lieutenant
General (Ret) Trey Obering

"We did a test last December where we used the C2BMC mission node over in Europe
located at Ramstein with the 10th AAMDC sensor army sensor managers controlling
a radar that was located on Wake Island as this air launch target in the Middle
Pacific was flying towards Hawaii. So we took the data from the ... on Wake Island,
sent it all the way back to Europe, and then sent it all the way back to Hawaii
where the Aegis Ashore site was located. We're doing this as part of our claiming
flight test for EPA[A] phase three. You know, where we do the, what's called that
Aegis "engage on remote," where we get that large increase in defended area. But
that speed of data is important, but when you're reaching across three quarters
of the globe and executing this mission, data is timely. Microseconds and milliseconds
is dollars in your world. For us, it's getting that data in the right place at the
right time for those weapons to engage." - Mr. John Bier

"C2BMC is going to lead missile defense. Not the fancy sensor, not the new bullet,
not the directed energy. C2BMC is leading Missile Defense to a new environment,
a new way to look at our missile defense capabilities. That is forcing expansion
of MDA, and of cruise missile defense, hypersonic defense and space. It's not the
weapons they have, it's the brains they have, and that's where we're heading. I
think the biggest thing, and they'll get it, besides the Artificial Intelligence
that's going to process, is being able to make this able for our allies, so we
can leverage all of their capabilities, and we're not leveraging those yet today.
But the future is phenomenal for C2BMC, and you should be getting the best and the
brightest in this mission." - Mr. Riki Ellison
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Respectfully,
Riki Ellison
Chairman and Founder
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
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