Global Force Symposium & Exposition

The Association of the United States Army Institute of Land Warfare (AUSA ILW) will return to the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama for the 2016 AUSA ILW Global Force Symposium and Exposition. The region is home to more than 900 defense contractors who collectively provide $5.6 billion in defense contracts for the U.S. government.

The featured command at the 2016 AUSA Global Force Symposium will be AMC (Army Materiel Command). The U.S. Army Materiel Command is the Army’s premier provider of materiel readiness – technology, acquisition support, materiel development, logistics power projection, and sustainment – to the total force, across the spectrum of joint military operations. If a Soldier shoots it, drives it, flies it, wears it, eats it or communicates with it, AMC provides it.

With headquarters at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, AMC is a part of “Team Redstone” and impacts or has a presence in all 50 states and 144 countries. Manning these organizations is a work force of more than 65,000 dedicated military and civilian employees, many with highly developed specialties in weapons development, manufacturing and logistics.

Local commands and agencies at Redstone include:

• U.S. Army Materiel Command
• U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command
• U.S. Army Security Assistance Command
• U.S. Army Contracting Command
• U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Command
• U.S. Army Space & Missile Defense Command
• U.S. Missile Defense Agency