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MDAA Alert:
Unified on Defense
December 20, 2019

Aerial view over the Pentagon (Photo: Department of Defense - Senior Airman Perry
Aston).
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Dear Members and Friends,
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Through the turmoil of partisan politics, a unifying $738 billion National Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year (FY) 2020 has been delivered to the United
States President from the House and Senate, expected to be signed this evening,
is a testament to the importance and value of the Department of Defense. The House
and Senate also sent an omnibus appropriation bill that appropriated $695 billion
to the Department of Defense (DOD) for FY2020. Within the 2020 defense appropriation
bill, Congress increased the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) funding by over 10%
from the President's request to $10.4 billion. This increase and policy direction
will enable MDA to expand into space, initialize and fund the next generation interceptor
(NGI) to defend the United States homeland while increasing the reliability of the
first generation Ground-Based Interceptors (GBIs), and increasing the capability
and capacity of the existing Aegis layered missile defense system to defend the
U.S. homeland over the time it takes to deploy the NGI. Further these defensive
bills put forward and fund for the first time a Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking
Space Sensor (HBTSS) and a hypersonic defense intercept program with MDA leading
the development, testing, and deployment of these vital missions.

A giant leap of technology to best defend the U.S. homeland is required for future
missile threats that would at the minimum include multiple independent kill vehicles
on each next generational interceptor. The NGI will replace the current fleet of
44 and go beyond the 64 interceptors that was put forward in the 2019 Missile Defense
Review (MDR) which will take a decade to develop, test, prove, and deploy. Absolutely
critical today is to increase the reliability of the first generational GBIs making
up close to half of the fleet by taking them out of the silos to conduct maintenance
and upgrades to their Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) as well as the booster,
and extend their operational life to go another decade. The funding and scheduled
on time completion of the Long-Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) in 2022 will increase
reliability of the current GBIs and add the first persistent discrimination sensor
for Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) and hypersonics coming over the
Arctic towards the United States homeland. This is all being funded by the 2020
defense bills.

Reliance on current Aegis systems both at sea and on land to defend the United States
homeland and territories will be dependent on the result of the upcoming Standard
Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA ICBM intercept test next year that is both funded and
approved by the 2020 NDAA. Increased production of the SM-3 Block IIA interceptors
and increased deployment of Baseline 9 Aegis software on existing Destroyers, along
with Aegis Baseline 10 installed on the new Flight III Aegis Destroyers as well
as future Aegis Ashore sites is being positioned to take place. Adding to this capability
is the future addition of hypersonic defense interceptors, integrated 360 air and
missile defense for cruise and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) on Aegis Ashore sites
of which the latter is already deployed and operational on all Aegis Destroyers
and Cruisers.

The future missile defense of the United States homeland is unified, funded, and
approved.

Sleep in Peace
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Respectfully,
Riki Ellison
Chairman and Founder
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
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