Choreographing Missile Defense

摘要

As chief executive of Washington's politically charged and technologically taxing missile defense program, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly has the daunting task of harmonizing often conflicting operational, budgetary and diplomatic demands for defending the United States, its forward-deployed forces and international partners from ballistic missile attack. O'Reilly and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) managers have cradle-to-grave responsibility for developing, testing and delivering integrated land-, sea- and space-based capabilities for tracking and intercepting ballistic missiles of different types under a wide range of attack scenarios.