Skip to main content

Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense An Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives (2012) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:

Appendix C: Summary of Meetings
Pages 188-191

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 188...
... ; BMDS and early intercept overview, MDA; Department of Defense (DOD) perspectives, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy; Department of State perspectives, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, verification compliance implementation; intelligence community perspectives, Office of the Director, National Intelligence; threat and geopolitical implications, MDA; early intercept considerations, MDA; phased adaptive approach, MDA; Aegis, MDA; kinetic energy interceptor (KEI)
Read the entire page →
From page 189...
... May 18-21, 2010, in Washington, D.C. Fifth committee meeting: policy considerations related to study terms of reference, including the Ballistic Missile Defense Review and the Nuclear Posture Review, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) ; acquisition and technical considerations related to study terms of reference, Deputy Director, Strategic Warfare, OSD for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics; operational, policy, technical, and other considerations related to study terms of reference, director of the MDA; ballistic missile defense requirement and considerations related to study terms of reference, director, Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense/Deputy Director for Force Protection, Joint Staff, J-8; perspectives on study terms of reference, NAS, NAE, and IOM members; perspectives on the study terms of reference, president of the Center for Security Policy, director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative, the New America Foundation, MIT, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Union of Concerned Scientists; and threat description and projections, Office of the Director, National Intelligence.
Read the entire page →
From page 190...
... June 23, 2010, at Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale, California.  Seventh meeting: subcommittee meeting perspectives from Lockheed Martin on boost-phase missile defense systems and Lockheed Martin's assessment of performance and operational capabilities, Lockheed Martin. July 13-16, 2010, in Washington, D.C. Eighth committee meeting: contractor perspectives, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Alliant Tech Systems; Air Force/ MDA Operational Feasibility Study on Air-Launched Hit-to-Kill, Headquarters, USAF (A5XS)
Read the entire page →
From page 191...
... APPENDIX C 191 May 16-20, 2011, at Washington, D.C., and at RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California. Seventeenth committee meeting: writing session, partial committee at East and West Coast sites. July 27-29, 2011, at Washington, D.C. Eighteenth committee meeting: response-to-review session, partial committee.
Read the entire page →

Key Terms

  • comprehensive discrimination
  • discrimination briefings
  • study terms
  • ballistic missile
  • writing meeting

  • lockheed martin
  • considerations related
  • technical details
  • mitre corporation
  • aerospace corporation

  • defense policy
  • airborne laser
  • army peo
  • physics laboratory
  • peo missiles

  • optical signature
  • university applied
  • partial committee
  • national intelligence
  • applied physics

  • surface warfare
  • telligence community
  • bmds interceptor
  • multiechelon training
  • current concepts

  • nuclear posture
  • nation phenomenology
  • joint staff
  • kinetic energy
  • teenth committee


    • This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
    More information on Chapter Skim is available.