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Congressional roundtables, policy discussions, and expert briefings on missile defense from the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance. Featuring senior defense officials, military leaders, and policy experts on topics including THAAD, Aegis, Iron Dome, hypersonic threats, space-based defense, and U.S. homeland missile defense strategy.

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Recent Guests

Ben Hurk
General (retired), Defense policy and missiles advocate
U.S. Army/Joint Forces
Episode: Virtual CRT: Who You Gonna Call?
John Rood
Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Former U.S. Department of Defense
Episode: Virtual CRT: Who You Gonna Call?
Ty Thomas
Retired Lieutenant General, Air Force
U.S. Air Force
Episode: Virtual CRT: Who You Gonna Call?
Jamie Girard
Lieutenant General (retired), former decon for Pacific Army
U.S. Army
Episode: Virtual CRT: Who You Gonna Call?
Glenn Banner
U.S. Air Force General, COCOM acquaintance
U.S. military
Episode: Virtual CRT: Who You Gonna Call?
Tom Browning
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Mission Capabilities
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (R&E)
Episode: Virtual CRT: Accelerating Missile Defense and Joint Lethality with R&E
Shotgun Brown
Energetic advocate and speaker on missile defense topics
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
Episode: Virtual CRT: Riding Shotgun: Death Valley to Gold Rush
Ron Christman
Director of Academic Program Studies and Analysis at MDAA
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
Episode: Virtual CRT: Riding Shotgun: Death Valley to Gold Rush
Tom Goebbels
Longtime fighter pilot, Senate Armed Services Committee staffer, NATO civilian leadership on innovation
NATO; Senate Armed Services Committee
Episode: Virtual CRT: Missile and Drone Defense: Innovation in Combat

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Ricky Ellison
Host with deep involvement in missile defense advocacy and policy circles

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Virtual CRT: Golden Clouds
Q: How do you balance data sharing with classification and policy constraints?
Use a cloud-enabled data layer with role-based access, clear clearance levels, and standardized agreements with allies to share only the data each party is cleared to access, while maintaining overarching risk management.
Virtual CRT: What Is IBCS?
Q: What is the best path forward to engage IBCS in Golden Dome within the next three years?
Leverage fielded components, integrate legacy systems where possible, and emphasize an operator-driven development approach with continuous feedback, while establishing a joint track management backbone to unify data sharing across services.
Virtual CRT: Making Clouds Reign for Missile Defense: Cloud C2 Data Fabric on the Edge
Q: From your perspective, do you need a consortium or is there another model that works better?
A consortium is useful but not the only path; there should be flexibility to include both centralized and modular approaches, leveraging best-in-class providers while ensuring government access and open standards.
Virtual CRT: Making Clouds Reign for Missile Defense: Cloud C2 Data Fabric on the Edge
Q: Is this realistic that we can do this in three years or two years?
The consensus is that the technology exists today to move quickly, but it requires a government willing to accept risk and to write permissive security policies that enable rapid data movement and collaboration.
Virtual CRT: Accelerating Missile Defense and Joint Lethality with R&E
Q: What are the biggest bottlenecks in moving from research and development to fielded capability?
The bottlenecks are largely policy and acquisition bureaucracy, with a need to bridge services, align incentives, and shorten cycles through open architectures, faster demonstrations, and better information flows between warfighters and technologists.

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What is MDAA Defense Briefing about and what kind of topics does it cover?

A policy- and technology-forward series focusing on missile defense, joint force integration, and rapid capability development. Across recent episodes, discussions center on open architectures, rapid prototyping, and faster fielding of integrated defense systems (Aegis, THAAD, IBCS, and beyond) through cross-service collaboration, cloud-native C2, and lessons from live testing and real-world operations. Notable themes include reducing friction in defense acquisition, elevating joint command-and-control, and creating interoperable ecosystems that bring warfighters, technologists, and industry partners together to counter evolving threats from state and non-state actors. The show often features senior officials, generals and admirals, and pol... more

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1. Ben Hurk
2. John Rood
3. Ty Thomas
4. Jamie Girard
5. Glenn Banner
6. Tom Browning
7. Shotgun Brown
8. Ron Christman

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