The MDA Small Business Programs Conference is designed to assist small business contractors in doing business with MDA by providing information about opportunities to support the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) mission to develop and deploy a layered Missile Defense System to defend the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and friends from missile attacks in all phases of flight. The conference will provide valuable information and opportunities for matchmaking with MDA Prime Contractors, Government Representatives and networking with other Small Businesses. The Small Business Industrial Base supporting MDA plays an integral and extremely important role in developing, manufacturing, fielding, and sustaining the MDS. The theme for this year’s conference is “Focusing on Small Business to Go Fast and Think Big.”