An unidentified staff member (title not specified) said remote technical collaboration with Ukrainian forces helped the United States improve air-defense systems and, he said, contributed to intercepting Iranian ballistic missiles targeted at a U.S. base.

The staff member said the collaboration occurred remotely because "we can't send US military personnel and and most defense civilians forward inside Ukraine," and that Ukrainian teams were "happy to engage with ours to teach us what they've learned." He said American and Ukrainian teams worked together on a technical solution to a problem created by "what the Russians were doing," and that the solution "worked."

Why it matters: The staff member framed the collaboration as a knowledge-sharing relationship that accelerated technical capability at U.S. installations. He said, "we at our base, the LUD was targeted with Iranian ballistic missiles. And And we intercepted most, if not all of them," and added that the interceptions came, "from what I understand, as a result of the collaboration that we have in pushing our systems to a new technical capability."

The speaker said he had been inside Ukraine and had met with Ukrainian teams but also said he could not share many operational details. The transcript did not identify the speaker by name or provide dates, the specific U.S. base location beyond the name as spoken ("LUD"), the exact technical fixes, or the timing of the missile attacks.

This account in the meeting was presented as a description of collaboration and outcomes; the transcript records no formal decisions, directives, or policy changes resulting from the remarks. The speaker repeatedly distinguished practical limits on U.S. personnel deployment in Ukraine from the technical work carried out remotely.

Additional context from the remarks: the speaker emphasized learning from battlefield experience and urged continued attention to evolving defense technology. The record in the transcript is limited to the speaker's summary and direct quotes; it does not include independent verification of the causal claim linking the collaboration to the missile interceptions.