U.S. industry participants joined other industry participants at a reception in honor of the exhibitors and participants at DefExpo 2020. The guest of honor was Ambassador Kenneth Juster, U.S. Embassy. The welcome remarks were given by Mr. Salil Gupte, National Executive Board Member, AMCHAM and President, Boeing India followed by special remarks by RDML Eileen Laubacher, Defense Attaché, U.S. Embassy, while Mr. Phil Shaw, Director Business Development, Lockheed Martin International, gave the vote of thanks and opened up the reception to all the participants. The event, held on February 4th in Lucknow, was jointly hosted with USISPF and USIBC with support from partners like BAE Systems, Boeing, Honeywell, L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Textron and Kallman Worldwide.