Missile Defense 

Missile Defense 

Missile Defense Division

Mission

To establish and foster a close working relationship members of the U.S. industry, academia, and government, whose responsibilities relate to the missile defense needs of the United States.

The Missile Defense Division seeks to promote and sustain the educational goals and objectives of the NDIA through its chartered objectives. It provides government with an industry view on government policies, practices, needs, and problems pertaining to missile defense that are within the committee's purview. It works to foster mutual understanding and effective working relationships between the DoD, military departments, and industry to facilitate identifying and resolving missile defense issues and matters of common interest to both government and industry. Finally, it provides a means for dialogue on all missile defense matters relating to the planning, programming, acquisition, deployment, and prospective legislation that can affect the acquisition and readiness of our nation's missile defense programs.

The division is organized into four distinct activity areas.

The division sponsors the Congressional Missile Defense Speaker Series in collaboration with the National Defense University Foundation. This continuing program brings together members of Congress, senior government officials, and Industry and academic leaders to discuss a wide range of issues including emerging and current threats to U.S. and regional security; status of ballistic missile defense programs, and the role of missile defense in overall U.S. defense strategy and policy.

The executive committee holds monthly meetings in which senior officials, including the MDA leadership, offer presentations discussions on current topics.

The division also maintains active committees to manage planning for its annual awards dinner and to develop and/or respond to missile defense issues of national interest.

The Missile Defense Information (MDI) Group provides a bi-weekly exchange of information between government representatives, NDIA corporate members, paid MDI Group consultants, and others who can assist in maintaining a high level of awareness in the planning, budgeting, and execution of major U.S. missile defense programs. Active membership to the MDI Group is by annual subscription to offset consultant fees.

Proceedings from Missile Defense Meetings

  • 1st Annual Integrated Air and Missile Defense Symposium
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  • 4th Annual Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Industry Day
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Missile Defense Awards Dinner - Award Recipients

2009 Awardees:

NDIA Meritorious Award: Mr. Peter R. Huessy, National Defense University
Lifetime Achievement: Dr. Patricia A. Sanders
Outstanding Leadership: Mr. Keith L. Englander
Kadish Award for Acquisition Excellence: RADM Alan B. Hicks, USN

2010 Awardees:

Heritage Award: Dr. Edward T. Gerry
Lifetime Achievement Award: VADM Rodney Rempt, USN (Ret)
Outstanding Leadership Award: Mr. Richard Ritter
Outstanding Achievement Award: Ms. Kari Anderson
Kadish Award for Acquisition Excellence: Gen James Cartwright, USMC   

Missile Defense Quarterly Lunches

  • Missile Defense Luncheon - November 18, 2008 at Sheraton National Download/Print/View presentaion given by LtGen Trey Obering, USAF

  • Missile Defense Lunch- May 8, 2008 at Sheraton National
    Download/Print/View presentation given by LtGen Trey Obering, USAF

  • Missile Defense Lunch- December 6, 2007 at Sheraton National
    Download/Print/View  presentation given by LTG Campbell

  • Missile Defense Lunch -  March 5, 2007 at Sheraton National
    Download/Print/View (pdf) presentation given by LtGen Trey Obering, USAF.

  • Missile Defense Lunch - February 12, 2007
    Download/Print/View (pdf) presentation given by Mr. Keith Englander.

  • Missile Defense Lunch - January 24, 2007 at the Boeing Company
    Download/Print/View (pdf) presentation given by Mr. Doug Schaefer.

Missile Defense Monthly Luncheons

MDA Organizational Chart (Updated 4/2009)
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Executive Committee

  • Mike Dauth, NDIA
  • Joseph Connell, ATK 
  • COLDavid Bagnati, MDAChief of Staff
  • Chris Warnke, MDA
  • Tom Johnson, Paradigm Technologies, Ex-Officio Chairman 
  • Barry Breindel, Consultant  
  • Ken Collins, Booz Allen Hamilton
  • Matthew Hawes, Booz Allen Hamilton
  • Jeff McKeel, Raytheon
  • Austin O'Toole, The Boeing Company
  • Jose Boluda, Northrop Grumman
  • Jeff Morrow, The BoeingCompany
  • Perry Castro, Allied Associates International
  • Frank Cevasco, Cevasco LLC
  • Mauro Farinelli, Sparta
  • Jim Offutt, Vanguard
  • Henry Riser, SPEC
  • David Cela, Raytheon
  • Dan Thompson, GD
  • Dave Wolf, SAIC
  • Harry Rosen, CSC
  • Brenda DuVall, CSC 
  • Jim Rohacik, Consultant

Chair


Joseph B. Connell
Vice President, Space Systems
Washington Operations
Alliant Techsystems, Inc. (ATK)
1300 Wilson Blvd, Suite 400
Arlington, VA  22209
Office- 703.412.3212
Email- Joseph.Connell@ATK.com

David Cela
Sr Manager
Air & Missile Defense Programs
US Business Development
Raytheon
1100 Wilson Boulevard Suite 1800
Arlington, VA 22209
Office- 703.284.4346
Email- david.cela@raytheon.com

Contact

Michael Dauth, mdauth@ndia.org
Director of Operations, NDIA

  

Affiliate Associations

The Association for Enterprise Information    National Training and Simulation Association    Precision Strike Association    Women in Defense