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A look now at the future of Missile Defense. The center for strategic and International Studies hosted a discussion recently with former defense officials and Global Security experts. Panelists talked about the challenges of Strategic Missile defense, the threats posed by north korea, iran, china and russia. Former defense undersecretary for policy, james miller moderated this event. Its about 90 minutes. Ready to go, okay, good morning, everybody. Thanks for being here today. Im jim miller. President of the adaptive strategies. I have had involvement with Missile Defense over a number of deca...

Including as undersecretary of defense in the Obama Administration. We have a great panel here today. You have already met tom karako, senior fellow here in the international program, director of the Missile Defense program and tom will talk about in particular his report Missile Defense, 2020, next steps for defending the homeland. Dr. Laura grego, thank you for being here as well. Laura is a Senior Scientist in the Global Security program for the union of concerned scientists. And also has a recent report entitled shielded from oversight, the disastrous u. S. Approach to strategic Missile De...

Pennant. He will take remarks and then well have about 10 to 15 minutes for questions. If you have questions i would ask you to limit to one in a followup. With that thank you. Good afternoon. I appreciate the opportunity to brief you on the president s request for Missile Defense agencies 2018 budget. The Agency Requests to continue the development of reliable increasingly capable for our nation deployed forces, allies and international partners. The fiscal year 2018 Missile Defense will support the deployment and of accept sores and command control management Communication System for bmds. A...

Critical step in the pacific is to deploy a radar in the pacific. They plan 5 million for a study to assess appropriate tracking and discrimination sensor to support the defense of the United States against immerging missile threats from iran. Finally we are requesting for the enhanced Homeland Defense radar hawaii to conduct source selection activities. We plan for the delivery of this radar by 2023. Next chart. Moving now to regional defenses. It is 1. 7 billion which includes the fleet. Mda will procure missiles for deployment on land and later in poland. Along with associated hardware and ...

In order to ensure each can deliver two ships per year. Today the lcs program is on budget and blows the congressional gao to actually read the gao report which is not a friendly one. They conclude cost isnt the issue. Strategically, what are we talking about . Why do war fighters keep asking for it . It is not only an ideal platform from which to employ Unmanned Systems to increase important in the future, it can go places tanker ships cant. The commander of logistics in the western pacific said they can go places and do things no other american ships can with flexible large payloads that ena...