Join us for Engineers Week Dinner

Featured Speaker: Gavin Brown, Executive Director

Michigan Aerospace Manufacturers Association

As executive director of the Michigan Aerospace Manufacturers Association, Gavin Brown is committed to establishing Michigan as a leader in the commercialization of near-Earth space and as a source for highly qualified suppliers to the defense, commercial, general aviation and UAV aerospace manufacturing sectors.

About the Michigan Aerospace Manufacturers Association 

The Michigan Aerospace Manufacturers Association is committed to positioning Michigan as mid-America’s Space Harbor, ensuring our state will play a leadership role in the growing aerospace industry. Our first public-private partnership is the Michigan Launch Initiative, which is working to bring together industry, government agencies and academic partners to support commercial and national security applications for the aerospace ecosystem. MAMA is in process of creating three sites – a command and control center that will support horizontal and vertical launch facilities to provide low earth orbit satellite launch sites. Our second public-private partnership is developing 5G Space-Enabled Communications for Advanced Mobility, or SECAM, for commercial and government users. The SECAM will draw private, government and academic partners to develop a secured space/terrestrial mesh 5G system that will incorporate existing terrestrial 5G technology. This 5G mesh system will utilize near-Earth orbit satellite 5G technology for ground, air, water and space missions.