WHEN:            Thursday, May 20, 2010

9:15 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.

 

WHERE:          Russell Senate Office Building, Room 188.

A light breakfast will be served free of charge. RSVP is required; please contact:    

events@afpc.org or call 202-543-1006.

  

Agenda

 

9:20am            OPENING REMARKS

                        Ilan Berman

                        Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council

 

9:30am            KEYNOTE ADDRESS

                        Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC)

                        Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

 

10:10am          SPEECH:  The Past and Future Shape of American Missile Defenses

                     Lt. Gen. Henry Obering

                     Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

                     Former Director, Missile Defense Agency

 

 10:50am          SPEECH: Setting the Agenda for Space

                        Eric Sterner

                        Fellow, George C. Marshall Institute

                        Former Associate Deputy Administrator for Policy and Planning, NASA

 

11:20am          SPEECH: The Perils of “New START”

                        The Honorable Frank Gaffney

                        President, Center for Security Policy

                        Former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy

 

12:00pm           SPEECH: The Nonproliferation Agenda

                        The Honorable Robert Joseph

                        Senior Scholar, National Institute for Public Policy

                        Former Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security

 

12:40pm           CONCLUDING REMARKS

                        Ilan Berman

                        Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council

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