Missile Defense Agency : Kadish receives Missile Defense Award
Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry “Trey” Obering, Missile Defense Agency director, announced that Lt. Gen. Ronald T. Kadish, U.S. Air Force (Retired), is the third recipient of the Ronald Reagan Missile Defense Award, an annual honor awarded to individuals or organizations to recognize outstanding support, innovation and engineering, and scientific achievement associated with technologies designed to defend against ballistic missile attack. Kadish served as director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and the Missile Defense Agency from 1999 to 2004.
Previous recipients of the Ronald Reagan Missile Defense Award were former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger in 2003 and retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, the first director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization.