This week’s Space & Missile Defense Conference in Huntsville is the 25th annual one, and regulars say it sometimes feels like a high school reunion to see friends and colleagues from past conferences on the big display floor.
They were especially glad to see each other this year as the pandemic eased enough to make the event seem more like normal. But this isn’t any reunion. It’s filled each year with briefings from the nation’s top military leaders on future needs and plans and booth after booth of systems, devices and simulators for demonstrating new defense technology.