Welcome to the 5th Annual Hypersonic Weapons Summit. Hypersonic weapons development in the US has seen significant growth over the past decade, and the US continues to keep pace with near-peer nations and rapidly develop significant capabilities. In recent years, the United States commitment to significant investment in hypersonic capabilities has continued, including notable programs such as Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM), Army Long...

Cybersecurity is a cornerstone of the Biden administration’s priorities and has never been more important to securing the nation’s infrastructure and data from cyber threats than it is today. Government IT leaders must remain vigilant against near-constant cyber threats while maintaining legacy systems and securing a remote workforce. In this workshop, Nextgov/FCW will examine the most important trends in cybersecurity across the f...

As activity in space increases, the U.S. Government faces major challenges, including satellite proliferation, adversarial expansion into the space domain and the increased need for more space-based data to improve operations here on the ground. Yet those challenges are accompanied by numerous opportunities, from increased commercial space ventures to improved communications and geospatial capabilities. How will the federal government navigate...

Why Attend?Explore the innovations that will shape national security for the next century at NDIA’s flagship Emerging Technologies Conference! Hear directly from technology leaders in government, defense industry, the commercial sector, and academia on cutting edge developments, operational needs, and business opportunities and in critical mission areas. Conference themes include Game Changing Emerging Technologies, Working with Allies a...

Digital technologies—particularly cloud innovations—are a top priority for the Pentagon as it looks to the future of warfare. To stay ahead, the DOD has invested significant resources into cloud tech designed to allow data to be shared more efficiently across the service branches. Cloud will change how the Pentagon communicates, stores, and processes data. But the technology is still evolving, and there are many challenges to imple...

From the energy grid to defense factories, America’s critical sites and services are a national priority. Keeping them up and running means staying ahead of the threat and protecting the supply chains that feed into them. What tools and advanced technologies are needed to defend and protect U.S. critical infrastructure? How is artificial intelligence factoring in, and where do leaders see new opportunities? How are defense and intelligen...

The 4th Annual Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (APNT) Summit will bring together members of the Military Services, DoD, Federal Government, Industry and Academia in a town-hall style forum with a thematic emphasis on Protect, Toughen and Augment (PTA). The immediate and long-term success of PNT technologies and application rely on the three elements of PTA: protect by detecting and terminating interference, toughen with enhanced ant...

The U.S. has entered a “decisive decade” marked by new threats from advanced strategic competitors like China and Russia. With these seismic geopolitical shifts at play, the Department of Defense has placed a greater emphasis on using modern, data-driven technologies to enable better and quicker decision-making to deter and defend against threats from great power adversaries. And, as the U.S. military looks to artificial intelligen...

Following the success of last year's event, we are excited to be hosting this year’s event at the prestigious Waldorf Astoria in Washington, D.C. on May 16th. The 2023 Offset Symposium brought together over 500 attendees and featured insightful talks from world-renowned leaders like Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan, Congressman Don Bacon and General John W Raymond. Discussions centered around overcoming bureaucratic hurdles, fostering agil...

On May 1st-2nd the NDIA Manufacturing Division is hosting an in-person event at Holland & Knight, 800 17th St. NW, District of Columbia. The Manufacturing Division continues to focus on establishing NDIA as a trusted resource targeted at addressing challenges of the DoD and the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) related to: Supply Chain Resiliency Workforce Development Advanced Manufacturing Research and Engineering Future Technology The event...