There are 400+ Exhibitors (392,000 Gross Sq. Feet/36,400 sq. meters of exhibit space), 5,000+ Attendees from 30+ countries, Commercial and Defense Operators, CEOs and high-level decision-makers, Government and Industry Program Managers, Policy Makers, Scientists, Researchers, Over 175+ International Speakers,, 140+ Technical, Workshop, Panel and Poster Presentations, Military, Civil and Commercial Applications, Updates on the latest industry trends, future programs, Panel discussions to influence future policies and decision making, Technology Transfer, Interoperability, Commonality discussions across domains, students, and much more!.

Maryland Thermoform is a custom thermoformer of unmanned systems, unmanned aerial vehicle, thermoform, vacuum form, plastic, plastic packaging, contract packaging, cosmetics, industrial, medical, retail, food, iso 9001, tooling,  distortion printing, defense, military, army, navy, air force, air plane parts formed, fabricated and assembled out of a kaleidoscope of materials including Composites utilized in the light weight UAV market.

Parts are built to customer specifications by a group of skilled personnel that understands time-lines and teamwork. “We pride ourselves in being ‘Your One Stop Plastics Source’ by offering everything from design to production under one roof.”

Proven and patented products are routinely designed and engineered by our staff. Large companies seek our expertise developing products for world wide marketing. Our staff is second to none and has a wide range of personal and professional experience allowing us to develop products which become standards in the specific industry. Composite materials, typically utilized for high heat/high impact applications in the defense, aerospace, and transportation industries, are now available from Maryland Thermoform Corporation.

“We look forward to this event each year,” said Scott Macdonald, MTC’s C.E.O. “It provides us with the opportunity to meet with our customers while being able to keep up with the latest industry trends.”

AUVSI is the world’s largest Conference and Exhibition focusing on Unmanned Systems. For more information on the show, go to: AUVSI Unmaned Sysyems North Ameruca 2010

ESD packaging is offered by Maryland Thermoform assisting in saving your electronic items from getting operational disturbances due to electro static discharge while transportation.
Maryland Thermoform offers customized ESD static prevention control thermoforming packaging solutions according to your specific demands.

Maryland Thermoform is well equipped for the custom manufacturing of static prevention control thermoforming packaging with insulation material, shielding, dissipative and conductive products. These products contribute toward developing effective design of an ESD packaging solution that can grant the desired protection to the electronic items being transported.

There are effective (ESD) static prevention control thermoforming packaging solutions for a variety of applications that are offered by MDThrmo.com. These ESD packaging solutions are usually complemented with solutions for safe transportation and corrosion protection if require as well, and have been very successful.

Maryland Thermoform provides comprehensive solutions for ESD packaging which include the usage of grounding materials, tooling, in house engendering etc. while implementing the ESD packaging solution in order to ensure safety of products. There are a lot of benefits of ESD packaging solutions, a few of them are:

1. Solutions are completely customizable
2. Safe arrival of products
3. No scope for occupational disturbance.

The static control products are been used throughout the computer chip market, electronics, fiber optics, defense components, telecommunications, disk drive, medical, and automotive industries for protection of the sensitive electronic components in and out of electrostatic discharge area. ESD packaging has developed invaluable reference standard & roadmap in an evaluation of the ESD thermoforming packaging & materials.

United States Department of Defense., United States Department of Defense (DOD or DoD) is the federal department in charge with [coordinating, organizing, synchronizing] and supervising all agencies and functions of the government [relating, concerning, regarding] directly to national security and the military. The organization and [functions, roles, tasks] of the DOD are set forth in Title 10 of the United States Code.

The DOD is the [major, main, principal] tenant of The Pentagon building near Washington, D.C., and has three major components the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force. Among the many DOD agencies are the Missile Defense Agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the National Security Agency (NSA). The department [also, additionally, in addition] operates several joint service schools, including the National War College.

Department [includes, comprises, incorporates, consist o] the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, as well as non-combat agencies such as the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency. The DoD’s annual budget was roughly $439 billion in 2007.[2] This figure does not include tens of billions more in supplemental expenditures allotted by Congress throughout the year, particularly for the war in Iraq. It also does not include expenditures by the Department of Energy on nuclear weapons design and testing.

In wartime, the Department of Defense has authority over the Coast Guard; in peacetime, that agency is under the control of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Prior to the creation of DHS, the Coast Guard was under the control of the Department of Transportation and earlier under the Department of the Treasury. According to the U.S. Code, the Coast Guard is at all times considered one of the five armed services of the United States. During times of declared war (or by Congressional direction), the Coast Guard operates as a part of the Navy; the service has not been under the auspices of Navy since World War II, but members have served in the undeclared wars and conflicts since then while the service remained in its peacetime department.

The Pentagon, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., is the headquarters of the Department of Defense. The Department of Defense is protected by the Pentagon Force Protection Agency which ensures law enforcement and security for The Pentagon and various other jurisdictions throughout the National Capital Region (NCR).

During 1945, specific plans for the proposed DoD were put forth by the Army, the Navy, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In a special message to Congress on December 19, 1945, President Harry Truman proposed creation of a unified Department of National Defense. A proposal went to Congress in April 1946, but was held up by the Naval Affairs Committee hearings in July 1946, which raised objections to the concentration of power in a single department. Truman eventually sent new legislation to Congress in February 1947, where it was debated and amended for several months.

DoD was created in 1947 as a national military establishment with a single secretary as its head to preside over the former Department of War (founded in 1789) and Department of the Navy (founded in 1798; formerly the Board of Admiralty, founded in 1780). The Department of the Air Force was also created as a new service at the same time (it had been part of the War Department as the United States Army Air Force), and made part of DoD. DoD was created in order to reduce inter-service rivalry which was believed to have reduced military effectiveness during World War II.

On July 26, 1947, Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, which set up the National Military Establishment to begin operations on September 18, 1947, the day after the Senate confirmed James V. Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense. The Establishment had the unfortunate abbreviation “NME” (the obvious pronunciation being “enemy”), and was renamed the “Department of Defense” (abbreviated as DOD or DoD) on August 10, 1949; in addition, the Secretary of Defense was given greater authority over three of the branches of the military (Army, Navy, and Air Force).

Prior to the creation of the National Military Establishment / Department of Defense, the Armed Forces of the United States were separated into different cabinet-level departments without much central authority. The Marine Corps remained as a separate service under the Department of the Navy, and the Coast Guard remained in the Department of the Treasury, ready to be shifted to the Navy Department during time of declared war (as it was in both world wars).