Please join us for this strategic supply chain event. Following up on our successful NDIA Supply Chain Summit, “Defense Supply Chain Economic Issues Amid Volatility,” we now focus on the imperatives that are driving businesses large and small to invest in supply chain risk management processes. You’ll hear from senior industry and defense leaders about the challenges they face to ensure their suppliers can help them meet cust...

The National Defense Industrial Association is hosting the 11th National Small Business Conference at The Waterford in Springfield, VA on September 9-10, 2014. NDIA’s Top Issues serve to guide the Association’s advocacy and educational activities throughout the year. The issues are broad in nature and essential to maintaining a strong, viable defense industry capable of meeting U.S. national security requirements.Each year, the Top...

The National Defense Industrial Association, in conjunction with AIA, will be hosting the TRI-Association Small Business Advisory Panel (TRIAD) Conference. The TRIAD was formed in 1967 to coordinate the efforts of small business subcontracting representatives. It was formed to serve the best interests of the industry associations and their member companies, affected government agencies, and the small business community. The meeting provides an...

The National Defense Industrial Association, in conjunction with AIA, will be hosting the TRI-Association Small Business Advisory Panel (TRIAD) Conference. The TRIAD was formed in 1967 to coordinate the efforts of small business subcontracting representatives. It was formed to serve the best interests of the industry associations and their member companies, affected government agencies, and the small business community. The meeting provides an...

The National Defense Industrial Association is hosting the 10th National Small Business Conference at The Waterford in Springfield, VA on September 25, 2013. Sequestration and declining defense budgets make this a challenging time for anyone who sells to the federal government. Yet, despite the challenges, there is a bright spotlight being focused on small business. This means small businesses, now more than ever, have an opportunity to get th...

The ability of robots to save lives has secured a path for ground robotics’ future alongside the Warfighter. Ground robotics, rapidly adopted during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, has enabled the U.S. and its’ allies to be more effective, efficient, and protected in a range of different missions, such as Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), Combat Engineering, and Reconnaissance. With a waning defense budget, uncertainty of future bu...

The National Additive Manufacturing Innovative Institute (NAMII) in Youngstown, Ohio was mentioned recently by President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address, calling it the hub of the nation's "catch-up" efforts to get back into the manufacturing game. NAMII is the first of 15 "innovative institutes" to be established by President Obama's $1-billion National Network for Manufacturing Innovation strategy he introduced in March 2012....

The Navy-Industry International Dialogue (NIID) provides a Navy-Industry-Attaché-Foreign Procurement Group forum to address issues involving security cooperation and sea service concepts and programs that help drive future capabilities for international maritime partnerships. This NIID will give an update focused on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) management and capabilities. The USN is unique among the U.S. services in its acquisition of...