Advanced Materials for Defense Summit

“Leveraging Advanced Materials and Processes to Strengthen America’s Defense”

DSI’s Advanced Materials for Defense Summit will focus on the efforts to develop and integrate technology-based options for advanced materials and manufacturing processes across the Department of Defense that supplement defensive and technological capabilities. This collaborative discussion will also provide the opportunity to examine advanced materials’ future role within the U.S. Defense Industry.

Why You Should Attend This Year’s Summit   

• As the political and military landscape grows in complexity and cost on a grand scale, National Leadership must aim to provide high quality, cost-efficient solutions that increase readiness, survivability, and sustainment capabilities for the Warfighter.

• Of the barriers that impede these desired capabilities, the need for new and resilient, strategic materials that contain higher strength capacities, greater flexibility, and lower production costs in order to supplement the Warfighter and drastically reduce the sustainment and maintenance costs of equipment have become increasingly important.

• To achieve the full potential of these advanced materials, the DoD, along with the private sector, have placed great emphasis on researching and developing materials and manufacturing processes in order to provide greater operational flexibility to the Warfighter and National Leadership.  

• DSI’s Advanced Materials for Defense Summit will focus on the efforts to develop and integrate technology-based options for advanced materials and processes that drastically alter the affordability, survivability, lifecycle cost, and readiness capabilities to maintain current, and propel future U.S. Defensive capabilities.

At our Summit you will have the ability to

• Gain Education & Insight: Walk away with knowledge gained from our senior level speakers on some of the complex challenges facing the Materials and Manufacturing Processes Community.

• Build Partnerships: The agenda is designed to allow for ample networking opportunities and the ability to discover the most up-to-date Advanced Materials initiatives and technologies

• Influence: Help foster ideas! Share your own insight and knowledge during our interactive sessions. All attendees are given the opportunity to address our speaker faculty with their questions or comments to contribute to the discussion.

Operating Guidance for Government Attendees

• DSI’s Advanced Materials for Defense Summit directly supports DoD/Federal Government priorities by providing a conduit for officials to efficiently reach audiences outside of their respective offices that directly impact their department's mission success, at no charge to the government, and in an efficient expenditure of time.

• DSI’s Summit will provide a forum to address and improve internal and external initiatives, meet with and hear from partner organizations, disseminate vital capability requirements to industry, increase visibility within the larger community, and generally support their mission.

• The Summit is open and complimentary to all DoD employees and is considered an educational and training forum.