Summary:
The United States does not today have a missile defense that is adequate to stop a North Korean missile attack. Our limited system in Alaska and California has shown little reliability in a variety of tests. In the face of this, a new missile defense system employing Remotely Piloted Aircraft with Boost Phase Interceptors (RPA-BPI) is being debated that could negate a North Korean launch. Brian Kennedy and Michael Del Rosso, both of the American Strategy Group, came to Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security on Tuesday to discuss this system and its strategic ramifications.
National Security Lecture Series at DMGS
The Daniel Morgan Graduate School Lecture Series is specifically designed to bring together speakers with divergent opinions on national security with the goal of enabling the public to engage in robust and informed discussions. It has hosted some of the most distinguished and influential leaders, thinkers, and practitioners of the national security community. These members of the national security community have provided our students, faculty, and guests with first-rate analysis of some of the most pressing challenges of our time. Daniel Morgan Graduate School will continue to host speakers who can help prepare the next generation of leaders, scholars and, practitioners to develop actionable solutions to global and domestic security challenges.
Presenters
Brian T. Kennedy is President of the American Strategy Group, a think tank dedicated to understanding the strategic threats to the United States. Mr. Kennedy is also a board member and Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute where he served as President from 2002 to 2015. During his 25-year tenure at the Claremont Institute, he directed their Golden State Center in Sacramento, their National Security Project, and served as publisher of the Claremont Review of Books.
Mr. Kennedy is a member of the Independent Working Group on Missile Defense. His articles on national security affairs and public policy issues have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, Investor’s Business Daily, and Hillsdale College’s Imprimis. He is a regular on The Bill Bennett Show Podcast. Mr. Kennedy is a native Californian and a graduate of Claremont McKenna College.
Michael Del Rosso is an accomplished technology executive whose career spans 35 years. He has served as CEO and CTO of large public technology companies and early stage companies. Mr. Del Rosso was Chief Technology Officer at three public companies: Quantum Corporation, Legato Systems, Inc., and OTG Software, Inc., the latter two now part of EMC, and was founding CTO of iDEFENSE.
He has worked on classified and unclassified Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security initiatives to include, Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), and other information security initiatives. He served on the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century (USCNS/21)/, the Hart-Rudman Commission and the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack.
