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Hello NSMMS & CRASTE Community,
We hope you are healthy and adjusting to this new and temporary “normal” we are all experiencing right now. The COVID-19 situation in Maryland, where NSMMS & CRASTE are to be held, has not improved enough for us to proceed with the in-person conference on June 22nd – 25th, 2020 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center. Additional travel restrictions on DoD, NASA, and many other organizations make the situation even more complex. Due to the uncertainty of when the event could reconvene, we are forced to cancel the in-person conference as scheduled.
Given that the technical content and collaboration that happens at NSMMS & CRASTE are
extremely important to our Nation’s defense and help advance the state-of-the-art in
space and missile technology, the 2020 NSMMS & CRASTE will adopt a “virtual format”.
This new format will allow participants to experience and benefit from the current
technical program and provide an avenue for interaction between speakers, attendees,
exhibitors, and sponsors. Due to security restrictions on the majority of the
content, we will not be livestreaming the event, but will offer a
2020 NSMMS & CRASTE Virtual Edition - a portion on DVD supplemented with engagement opportunities.
This virtual edition will include:
The NSMMS brings together the Nation's technology leaders to review the critical challenges of materials, processing, and manufacturing for space, missile, and hypersonic systems. System engineers, designers, scientists, researchers, managers, and senior leaders will be in attendance from the joint services, NASA, DOE, academia, and industry. The government's active participation in this event helps provide direction to our senior leaders, research scientists and engineers in the industry, in order to keep our capabilities internationally competitive and our defense systems the best in the world. 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 enabling current and future capabilities. The NSMMS maintains this focus to directly convey to a diverse audience of researchers, planners, managers, and senior leadership the importance of supporting advanced materials technology development. Advanced materials are crucial to the improved performance and reliability of both commercial and defense systems. As a national materials community, it is important to establish and continue an exchange with our leaders emphasizing that advanced materials research must be a priority for the country.
CRASTE focuses on bringing system integrators and subsystem technology experts together to improve space access capabilities and responsiveness. Special focus is given to the integration of emerging technologies with space-access architectures to create new markets and improve existing systems for government and commercial users.