Military Flight Training USA is back for our 8th annual conference and is proud to be bringing together a community of 150+ Training Program Managers, Instructors, Industry and Academy Experts, and Executives as we discuss challenges at the forefront of pilot training. By guiding flight training initiatives to leverage new technology and innovative education strategies, Commands can effectively reduce the gaps in skills and capabilities from t...

Welcome to the 5th Annual Hypersonic Weapons Summit. Hypersonic weapons development in the US has seen significant growth. The US has actively pursued the development of hypersonic weapons as since the early 2000s. In recent years, the US has focused such efforts on hypersonic glide vehicles and hypersonic cruise missiles with shorter and intermediate ranges for use in regional conflicts. Although funding for these programs has been relatively...

Additive Manufacturing, or 3D printing, is quickly becoming a staple component of advanced manufacturing capability across the aerospace, space and defense industrial base. With this in mind, the Institute for Defense and Government Advancement (IDGA) is holding our first annual Additive Manufacturing for U.S. Aerospace, Defense and Space Summit on June 13-14 in Orlando, Florida. This senior and expert-led Summit will highlight the ongoing eff...

The inaugural Air Dominance Summit will bring together 200 senior international leaders from the fighter aircraft community, including Pilots, Procurement Specialists and Air Force Commanders from NATO member nations – all tirelessly dedicated to securing air supremacy in an evolving and contested threat landscape. Against rising tensions in the Pacific and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, we will evaluate initial lessons learned to ensure t...

Additive Manufacturing, or 3D printing, is quickly becoming a staple component of advanced manufacturing capability across the aerospace, space and defense industrial base. With this in mind, the Institute for Defense and Government Advancement (IDGA) is holding our first annual Additive Manufacturing for U.S. Aerospace, Defense and Space Summit on June 7-8 in Orlando, Florida. This senior and expert-led Summit will highlight the ongoing effor...

In light of the critical and rapid nature of the hypersonic community, IDGA is bringing back out Hypersonic Weapons Summit this October 28-30, to comprehensively analyze and enable the realization of next generation hypersonic technology and weaponry.

Listening to the needs and priorities of our forces and allies, IDGA’s International Fighter USA 2020 online summit is once again designed to bring cutting edge perspectives from prominent decision makers to address the leading themes in global fighter priorities from USAF, DoD and international allies and provide answers to the challenges of 4th and 5th generation integration, next generation fighters, multi-domain joint operations, mul...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event is now a Virtual event due to COVID19 concerns. Location: Virtual With each iteration of the Counter UAS Summit's we keep getting bigger and better, becoming a global leader in Counter UAS space! This past summer our CUAS summit saw 350+ attendees come together from military and industry to discuss how we could integrate the latest technology designed to combat drone threats while impro...

IDGA’s inaugural Counter-Hypersonics Summit will provide a senior-level review of ongoing defensive hypersonic efforts that bolster the United States’ ability to conduct homeland defense. Detecting, tracking and defeating hypersonic weapons will be a critical capability enabler for Military operations across multiple domains as these threats continue to evolve in complexity.

IDGA's 5th Annual International Military Helicopter 2020 Online Event will provide a means to discuss the ongoing efforts to meet the next generation of innovative rotary wing aviation assets to bolster air and battlefield overmatch. The US Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program will develop the next generation of military helicopters. Along with continued modernization and maintenance, FVL is driving helicopter capability development on a global...