Efforts to provide comprehensive air and missile defense of Guam will be the focus of the next Strategic Landpower Dialogue co-hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The event on July 30 will feature Lt. Gen. Robert Rasch, director of the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office and executive officer of the Joint Program Office for the Guam Defense System, and Brig. Gen. Frank Lazano, program executive officer for missiles and space.

It will take place from 2–3:15 p.m. Eastern July 30 at CSIS headquarters, 1616 Rhode Island Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. It also will be livestreamed on the CSIS YouTube channel.

To attend in-person or online, you must register here.

The Strategic Landpower Dialogue is a quarterly on-the-record speaker series on land power security issues. It serves as a unique source of insight into the current thinking of and future challenges facing the U.S. Army and land-based forces. Launched in September, this is the fifth event in the series.

During the discussion, Rasch and Lazano will highlight efforts to provide comprehensive air and missile defense of Guam and the challenges associated with integrating several distinct fire control systems.

Rasch has led the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office since September 2022, where he’s responsible for the rapid fielding of select capabilities to deter and defeat rapidly modernizing adversaries. This includes overseeing development of an Army long-range hypersonic weapon.

As program executive officer for missiles and space, Lazano is responsible for the development, production, fielding and sustainment of assigned missile and space systems. He has been in the job since August 2022.