Welcome to IDGA’s 11th Special Operations Summit devoted to the challenges and potential solutions to SOF mission sets around the world. This iteration focusing on “Requirements for Training, Enabling, and Sustaining the Next Generation of Maritime Special Operations,” will look to help identify critical issues in policy and technological gaps facing Naval Special Warfare and its integrated partners. Topics Covered Include: T...

Investing in Technologies to Support the Shift in SOF Priorities Special Operations have spent the past ten years engaged in combat in the dry, hot, mountainous terrain of the Middle East. As U.S. forces shift priorities to target emerging hotbeds of activity around the globe, SOF will require new skill sets not previously utilized in Iraq and Afghanistan. Investments in both the technological aspects of military engagement as well as the ful...

Introduction The 2010 Munitions Executive Summit will be focused on the ongoing challenge of aligning industrial capabilities with the evolving munitions requirements and resource parameters. This annual summit is attended by industry executives, acquisition leaders, program managers, and academia involved in the US munitions enterprise. The totality of this munitions enterprise continues to work in collaboration to improve the availability a...