SMD Symposium
9,000+ attendees: Army, MDA, primes and small businesses on space and missile defense.
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- Dates
- Aug 10 to Aug 12, 2027
- Where
- Huntsville, AL
- Cost
- Paid ticket. Price on attendee page.
- Type
- Conference · Paid ticket
- Organizer
- Cummings Research Park / Huntsville
- Last checked
- October 23, 2026 against the event’s own site
Official site and registration
Speaking opportunities
Has sessions, ask how speakers are chosen
Who goes
Roles and segments the organizer or our research tag this event for.
Segments: Defense and government contracting, Space industry
Roles: capture manager, defense program manager
The field it serves: Aerospace & Defense
- Verified open jobs
- about 18,990
- Typical posted salary
- $133,000 a year (middle half $101,000 to $152,000)
- Entry or early-career level
- 33% of openings
- Employment, year over year
- +0.6% in manufacturing, the closest BLS sector
Source: NextChapter job data, jobs verified live in the last 7 days.
See the detail →Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 1,849 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.
See the detail →Source: NextChapter job data: level read from the full posting, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.
See the detail →Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, seasonally adjusted payroll employment, October 2026.
See the detail →Full Aerospace & Defense snapshot: jobs, pay, layoffs and conferences
Employers at this conference
Exhibitors, sponsors and speakers we have found on the event’s own lists.
- Accenture Federal Sponsoring 2027
- AeroVironment Sponsoring 2027
- Amentum Sponsoring 2027
- Arcfield Sponsoring 2027
- Astrion Sponsoring 2027
- Aurex Sponsoring 2027
- Bank of America Sponsoring 2027
- Blue Origin Sponsoring 2027
- Boeing Sponsoring 2027
- CohesionForce Sponsoring 2027
- Corvid Sponsoring 2027
- Dassault Sponsoring 2027
- Deloitte Sponsoring 2027
- Deltek Sponsoring 2027
- Equator Corporation Sponsoring 2027
- Firehawk Sponsoring 2027
- General Atomics EMS Sponsoring 2027
- GovCIO Sponsoring 2027
- KBR Sponsoring 2027
- Kratos Sponsoring 2027
- L3Harris Sponsoring 2027
- Leidos Sponsoring 2027
- Lockheed Martin Sponsoring 2027
- Microsoft Sponsoring 2027
- Northrop Grumman Sponsoring 2027
- Odyssey Sponsoring 2027
- Parsons Sponsoring 2027
- PeopleTec Sponsoring 2027
- Peraton Sponsoring 2027
- RTX Sponsoring 2027
- SAIC Sponsoring 2027
- Schneider Electric Sponsoring 2027
- Sim Tech Sponsoring 2027
- SNC Sponsoring 2027
- Systems Planning Analysis Sponsoring 2027
- Teledyne Brown Engineering Sponsoring 2027
- Torch Technologies Sponsoring 2027
- Unanet Sponsoring 2027
- URSA Major Sponsoring 2027
- Voyager Sponsoring 2027
Read from the event’s own pages: www.smdsymposium.org.
Industries and functions
Where it is and who it is for
Held in Huntsville, AL. Local jobs, employers, layoffs and other conferences nearby are on the place pages.
Past and planned editions
- 2027: August 10, 2027 to August 12, 2027, Huntsville, AL
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