The Center for International Relations & The U.S. Embassy in Warsaw

cordially invite you to a seminar with the participation of

General Henry A. Obering III
Missile Defense Agency Director

Update on the Missile Defense Program

The seminar will take place on Thursday, 30 October at 10:30 a.m.
Szkoła Główna Handlowa, Budynek C, Aula 1,  al. Niepodległości 128, Warszawa

The seminar will be held in English with translation into Polish.

Please confirm your participation by Wednesday, 28 October
by e-mail: info@csm.org.pl or by phone: +48 22 646 5267.

Lieutenant General Henry A. Trey Obering III is the Director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA)

Office of the Secretary of Defense, Pentagon, Washington, DC. The MDA is Presidentially-chartered and mandated by Congress to acquire highly effective ballistic missile defense systems for forward-deployed and expeditionary elements of the U.S. Armed Forces. The Agency’s mission is to develop and deploy an integrated, layered ballistic missile defense system capable of protecting the United States, our allies and friends against all ranges of missiles in all phases of their flight. As Director, General Obering is the Acquisition Executive for all Ballistic Missile Defense Systems and program. The general, a native of Birmingham, AL, entered the Air Force in 1973 after completing the University of Notre Dame’s ROTC program as a distinguished graduate. He received his pilot wings in 1975 and flew operational assignments in the F-4E. The general was later assigned to the Space Shuttle Program and participated in 15 space shuttle launches as a NASA orbiter project engineer and was responsible for integrating firing room launch operations. Other assignments included tours with the Air Force Inspector General, the Defense Mapping Agency, and Electronic Systems Center. Prior to his assignment at MDA, the general planned and programmed 68 joint, Air Force, and international programs, including Global Hawk and Predator, with a $28B budget as Mission Area Director for Information Dominance on the Air Staff.