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The Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies @CSIS.
Jul 14, 2022 16 tweets 5 min read
🧵THREAD on cruise missile defense, feat. @JenJudson (@defense_news), Dr. Peppi DeBiaso (CSIS, fmr. Dir., DoD OMDP), BG Paul Murray (Dep. Dir. Ops, NORAD), Stan Stafira (Chief Architect, MDA), COL Tony Behrens (Dep. Dir., JIAMDO). Brig. General Murray: A defense design is not a strategy, or an operational plan, a series of wishlists, but a set of concepts or roadmap that informs all those things—strategy, op plans, or procurement.
Jul 14, 2022 25 tweets 10 min read
STARTING NOW: Our panel event on homeland cruise missile defense. Follow our live THREAD on the event here and ask questions: LTG A.C. Roper, Deputy Commander of NORTHCOM introduces our panel with @LeeHudson_. "We must deal with compressed decision space." Threat "highlights our limited domain awareness"
Feb 16, 2022 28 tweets 7 min read
Livetweet THREAD 🧵 with @tomkarako and @armyfutures on Project Convergence, w/ LTG James Richardson, COL Toby Magsig, and Dr. Gary Lambert. Watch & ask questions here:
csis.org/events/project… Image Richardson: begins high-level overview of Army Futures Command and cross-functional teams. 31+4 priority efforts. The mission: "The problem was we cannot talk, we could not pass data" Image
Feb 7, 2022 36 tweets 11 min read
And we're live on hypersonic defense! Livetweet 🧵 starts here. Watch the event, ask questions, and download the report here:
csis.org/events/complex… @tomkarako starts us off talking about the hypersonic threat. Space sensors are "the single most important program element" for a hypersonic defense.
Feb 7, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
Complex Air Defense drops tomorrow, but before we start livetweeting the release event, one more thread on historical hypersonic programs: the French/Russian Lyotnii Experimentalii Apparat (LEA) air-breathing vehicle. NATO RTO diagram of the Russia/France work breakdown. Program began Jan 2003 and PDR completed in 2006. Goal to sustain Mach 4 - 8 for up to 30 seconds in flight tests. Flight tested 4x between 2014 - 2015.
Nov 18, 2021 27 tweets 7 min read
The CSIS Maritime Security Dialogue with @tomkarako and Rear Admiral Tom Druggan is starting! Look forward to a fascinating conversation on Aegis. @tomkarako LINK TO JOIN: csis.org/events/maritim…