This year's theme is "Missile Defense - Deployment and Beyond." This conference included government and industry representatives with an intense interest in missile defense issues discussing the policy, technology, and operational issues and implications of the ballistic missile defense systems.
This year, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, a longtime proponent of a welldeveloped national missile defense system, was a featured speaker at the conference.
The Space and Missile Defense Conference is sponsored by the Air Defense Artillery Association, the Tennessee Valley Chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association and the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Association.
The Ole Miss participation in the SMD Conference was to highlight the research activities of the Electrical Engineering Department and Center for Applied Electromagnetic Systems Research (CAESR) which is focused primarily on applied electromagnetic theory with the extensive use of our computational and experimental measurement facilities. Related technology developments have been pursued on many different topics with the cooperation and support from Department of Defense including the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force, as well as the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautical and Space Administration, and industrial groups.
A major part of our recent developments has been in cooperation and support for the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Technical Center in Huntsville, AL on technology development for the Radar Power Technology Program which is shown in the following picture of the Ole Miss Exhibit.
The Ole Miss SMD Conference Business Card Raffle for two tickets for the Ole Miss - Auburn football game was won by Ms. Lisa Strickland, Associate Director for Professional Development at the University of Alabama in Huntsville at the drawing at the Wednesday night dinner.
Ole Miss Exhibit at the 2004 SMD Conference
Ole Miss and Radiance Technologies, Inc. Participants at SMD Conference (l-r. Dalia Elsherbeni, Dana Wilson, Randy Ware, Charles Smith, Johnny Jackson, Atef Elsherbeni, and Tom Hall; Not shown James Vaughan, Ellen Lackey, Allen Glisson, and Mik and Winter Wimbrow).
Ole Miss graduates Winter Wimbrow (BSME) and Dalia Elsherbeni (BSEE) of Radiance Technologies, Inc. (l-r) worked several long days at the Ole Miss exhibit to show technology developments to conference attendees.