5th Annual U.S. Missile Defense Conference.

The 5th Annual U.S. Missile Defense Conference will be held March 19-23, 2007, at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Washington, D.C. A key objective of the 2007 conference is to continue building the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) team relationships that will in turn make development of a global missile defense system a successful reality. The BMDS Team includes members of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Department of Defense, military service staffs, and industry.

The conference--hosted by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), in cooperation with Northrop Grumman Corporation and supported by MDA--will expose the BMDS to the entire missile defense community, educate conference participants on the system-level approach to BMDS development, and serve as an exchange of ideas on BMDS evolution. Discussions will focus on the evolutionary development of a global, layered, integrated BMDS; the integration and testing of BMDS capability; the status of fielding BMDS elements; and the current political/policy environment, including the merits of extending BMDS capabilities to allies. Consistent with this focus is the theme of the conference, Global Ballistic Missile Defense--A Layered Defense. Register for the 2007 conference at <http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=230&lumeetingid=1475&viewcon=overview>.