The Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA) is honored to announce the appointment of Mr. Ron Christman as our MDAA Director of Academic Programs, Studies, and Analysis.
Ron comes to us with over 39 years of experience in a wide range of senior analytic and management positions within the Defense Intelligence Enterprise and the Department of War, including experience in the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, & Execution (PPBE) process.
He has fifteen years of sustained experience mastering intelligence knowledge on all foreign missile forces worldwide in support of operational planning, target system analysis, defense resourcing investment decisions, Allied and multinational staff talks, and deliberations in Missile Defense Agency, Combatant Command, Joint Staff, Congressional, and Service specific forums.
He has six years of sustained experience in multiple U.S. Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) Enterprise lines of effort: Threat Analysis; Operational Planning & Assessment; Concept of Operations Development; Program of Record Prioritization & Oversight; and, the Defense Acquisition System.
He is a graduate of MDAA’s USC SHIELD Program in Global Space and Deterrence (Cohort 3). He produced with his SHIELD team a hard hitting reported entitled “Accelerating Solutions to Defend Against Hypersonic Threats.”
His primary specialties have been China’s strategy and military capabilities, all foreign missile threats worldwide, target support, and threats to U.S. NC3.
In addition to his classified publications, he has published articles in several academic journals and books, focused on Missile Threats, NC3 Intelligence Support Needs, Chinese missile forces and missions, and how China evaluates military campaigns.
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