Celebrating 35 Years of the Strategic Defense Initiative and the Way Forward for Missile Defense
On March 23, 2018, the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance was honored to recognize the best missile defenders from the U.S. Army National Guard in California and the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center during MDAA’s Celebration of 35 Years of the Strategic Defense Initiative at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Foundation in Simi Valley, California. READ MORE: MDAA Alert “Keeping it Real in California”
U.S. Army National Guard
Captain William Smith – Detachment 1 Commander
Chief Warrant Officer 4 Jon Siers – XO/C2 Systems Integrator
U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center
Major Joseph Misch
Captain David Baska
First Lieutenant Tony Hillesheim
Lieutenant Derek Holsapple
Lieutenant Kenneth Devine
Captain Rey Heron
Advocacy
- Events
- Congressional Roundtable Discussion Series
- Addressing the Air and Ballistic Missile Threat to Europe
- Air Defense for the U.S. Army and Europe
- Boost Phase Missile Defense
- Cooperating with Japan on Missile Defense
- Defending Against the North Korean Ballistic Missile Threat
- Developing a Space-Based Sensor Layer for Missile Defense
- Layered Missile Defense Against North Korea
- MDAA Congressional Roundtable: Future BMD Systems
- MDAA Congressional Roundtable: Missile Defense in the Pacific
- Missile Defense C2 in a Cross Domain Environment
- New Layers
- Space-Based Missile Defense
- The Missile Defense Review: Expanding the Mission of Missile Defense
- The Navy’s Contribution to Ballistic Missile Defense
- Congressional Roundtable Discussion: Addressing the North Korean Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States
- Reception Events
- Anniversary of President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative Speech
- Arizona Breakfast of Champions
- Arizona Reception of Champions 2017
- Ballistic Missile Defense Breakfast of Champions in Pascagoula, Mississippi
- Celebrating 35 Years of the Strategic Defense Initiative and the Way Forward for Missile Defense
- Huntsville Breakfast of Champions
- NATO Live Fire Recognition Event
- New Jersey Reception of Champions in Camden, New Jersey
- Recognition of the Tenth Anniversary of the Operational Aegis BMD System
- Missile Defender of the Year Award Ceremonies
- Congressional Roundtable Discussion Series
- Write Your Representative
- Memorials
- Tributes
- Lieutenant General Thomas S. Vandal 1959-2018
- President George H. W. Bush 1924-2018
- Senator John S. McCain III 1936-2018
- Major General John G. Rossi 1961-2016
- Mrs. Nancy Reagan
- Petty Officer 2nd Class Mark A. Mayo 1989-2014
- Dr. William Van Cleave 1935-2013
- Dr. Julian Davidson 1927-2013
- Neil Armstrong 1930-2012
- Chris Taylor 1949-2011
- Senator Theodore Stevens 1923-2010
- Lt. Gen. Larry J. Dodgen 1949-2010
- Admiral Wayne E. Meyer 1926-2009
- Bill Walsh 1931-2007
- Missile Defense Review
