Intro to Iron Dome for America Executive Order Seminar

Date/Time:

Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 2-4pm

Thursday, February 27, 2025, 10-12 noon

Thursday, February 27, 2025, 2-4pm

Participants have one 10-minute break.

The Seminar will be presented 3 times over 2 days

Course Description:

• Introduction to the Iron Dome for America Executive Order is a 2-hour virtual seminar that provides participants an overview and a deeper understanding of the new missile defense policy announced in the Executive Order as well as associated technical challenges and technological paths to implement the order. This professional development seminar is appropriate for the technical and engineering community, government, small businesses, and managers and project managers of large companies involved in missile defense, or desiring to become involved in missile defense.
• The seminar will use history and heritage to advance participant understanding and context, connecting previous missile defense efforts – from President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative to more recent ‘underlayer’ efforts – to the Executive Order, the Missile Defense Agency’s Request for Information, and the Space Development Agency’s Broad Area Announcement.
• The seminar is structured to journey through the Executive Order, reviewing current missile threats, new policy, implementation of missile defense initiatives, integration challenges, the role of space systems, a review of potential space systems, fire control implications, command and control, and international considerations for advancing missile defense.
• This context-delivered approach improves the general knowledge and context required to effectively engineer a complex missile defense system to meet new threat requirements in the Iron Dome for America Executive Order.

Course Level: Introductory (100 Level) – Learner requires little to no previous knowledge of this topic area

PDHs: 2

The Seminar will be presented 3 times over 2 days

Instructor: Rear Admiral Tom Druggan, U.S. Navy (Retired)

• Rear Admiral Tom Druggan, U.S. Navy (Ret.) served in the U.S. Navy for over 33 years with significant experience serving onboard five U.S. Navy destroyers, supporting the CNO and VCNO at Navy headquarters, and leading large technical and acquisition organizations to deliver critical integrated air & missile defense systems for DoD.
• Flag officer tours include Program Executive for Aegis BMD sea-based weapon systems in the Missile Defense Agency and as Commander of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, leading nearly 18,000 scientists and engineers.
• He also served as major program manager for the Aegis Combat System in the Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems. At sea, he earlier served on five destroyers and as the commanding officer of USS O’Kane (DDG 77), conducting strike group operations and independent missions worldwide.
• Rear Admiral Druggan currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Insight, Ltd.