Why you should attend. . .

The NSMMS is the premier forum for system engineers, designers, scientists, and managers concerned with the critical challenges of materials and processing for space and missile technology.

You Are Invited

Please join us this year for the 2008 National Space & Missile Materials Symposium (NSMMS). The NSMMS brings together the Nation’s materials and processing leaders to review the critical challenges in materials, processing, and manufacturing issues that face our future generations of space and missile systems. The Symposium has established a format that focuses on KEY materials and processing challenges associated with system and component needs on the CRITICAL path to enable current and future space and missile capabilities.

-Special Guest-
Former Gemini and Apollo Astronaut
Lt Gen (Ret) Tom Stafford
joins NSMMS this year.

Lt Gen Stafford is one of only 24 men that have flown to the moon. During the course of his career, he attained the highest speed ever reached by a test pilot (28,547 mph), led the team that designed the sequence of missions leading to the original lunar landing, and drafted the original specifications for the B-2 stealth bomber on a piece of hotel stationery.

In addition to his many technical achievements, Lt Gen Stafford was America’s unofficial space ambassador to the Soviet Union during the darkest days of the cold war.

Lt Gen Stafford is one of the featured members on our Senior Leader Executive Panel and will be available the same day in our exhibit hall to talk with attendees and sign copies of his book, We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race.

The Symposium maintains this focus to directly convey to a diverse audience of researchers, planners, managers, and senior leadership the importance of supporting materials and processing technology development. Advanced materials are crucial to the improved performance and reliability of both commercial and defense systems. As such, it is important, as a National materials community, to establish and continue an exchange with our leaders emphasizing that advanced materials research must be a National priority. The community must also understand and communicate the materials technology challenges critical to our future generation space and missile capabilities.Advanced materials are crucial to the improved performance and reliability of both commercial and defense systems. As such, it is important, as a National materials community, to establish and continue an exchange with our leaders emphasizing that advanced materials research must be a National priority.
The community must also understand and communicate the materials technology challenges critical to our future generation space and missile capabilities.

2008 Forum

The 2008 forum will have a senior level plenary session, seven major technical sessions, tutorials, workshops, poster papers, and networking events.

US Only & ITAR Restricted

This symposium is US ONLY, ITAR, and Military Critical Restricted in accordance with DoD directive 5230.5 under the provisions of Public Law 98-94, “Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984,” Section 1217, Sept 24, 1983 and is not open to the general public

 

Contact Information

For more information on the symposium or related topics, please use the following points of contact:

Electronic mail

Steering Committee Chair::
Monica Stucke
Technical Information:
Daniel Cleyrat
Symposium Coordinators:
Michelle Williams
Patrick Sisson

Telephone

937-476-2165

FAX

937-254-2153

Postal Address

National Space & Missile Materials Symposium
C/O: General Dynamics Information Technology
5100 Springfield Pike, Suite 509
Dayton, OH 45431
 

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