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Good morning everybody. Thank you for being here today and jim miller president and ive had involvement with Missile Defense over a number of decades. Starting on capitol Hill Services committee in the late 80s and early 90s. And continuing on through my time including undersecretary defense of the obama ministration. We have a great panel here today. Youve already met some jericho who is senior fellow here in International Security program at csis. Tom will talk about in particular his important missiledefense next steps. Doctor greco, thank you for being here today as well. Scientists in the Senior Security program. Also support we will. Guest that and a number of other issues i think. Our third panelist today Major General retired ron. Director strategy plans and policy for norad. Then also has up several commands for an air defense and at one point was director of tests for the Missile Defense agency as well. It is a great group. I want to thank you general especially for coming to
Missile defense over a number of decades starting on capitol hill, House Armed Services committee in the late 80s, early 90s and continuing on through my time including as undersecretary of defense in the Obama Administration. We have a great panel here toda youve youve already met tom karako, senior fellow in the International Security program at cis, director of the Missile Defense system. 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 today. Laura is a Senior Scientist in the global Security Program for the union of concerned scientis and and also has a recent report entitled, shielded from oversight, the disastrous u. S. Approach to Strategic Missile and and well speak to that and a number of other issues, i think. And our third panelist today, major genre tired fran. Plans and policy for norad and northcom and headed up several commands for army, missile and air defense and one
Thank you for being here today. Of the president strategies and had involvement with missiledefense. On the secretary defense of the obama administration. Yorty met the director of the missiledefense program. Tom will talk about missiledefense 2020 and next steps. Laura is a Senior Scientist in the program. Aboutso has a book missiledefense and will speak to that and a number of issues, i think. Our third panelist is a major general, retired friend, and his last posting was the director of strategy for norad and nor calm. He headed up several commands were already missile and air defense, and was director of at one point. I want to thank you for coming and those unable to be here due to a scheduling conflict. To kick is words often than we will turn to the panelists, indeed as mentioned earlier, the Trump Administration is kicking off a major review of the missiledefense policy. If we go back to the 2010 missile review conducted by the last administration, it is defensethat it placed i