Military UAV’s Create Multiple-Mission Opportunities for Industry Military spending for this technology is expected to grow as an overall percentage of large military budgets such as the United States’ and Chinese defense budget, offering specialized drone manufacturers and software developers a tremendous opportunity. While drones will never completely replace soldiers, this debate is becoming less important in the current strateg...

We are excited to announce the National 8(a) Association 2021 Virtual Day! Join us January 25, 2021 for educational sessions, exhibitor booths, 1:1 virtual matched networking appointments and more. Registration for the 2021 Virtual Day is live!

Digital Thread—the PLM Professionals’ Path to Delivering Innovation, Efficiency, and Quality The Digital Thread is a multifaceted opportunity with implications affecting innovation, efficiency, and quality. Many companies view these dimensions as a tradeoff and define performance improvement goals and strategies to achieve what they see as an optimum balance between the three. However, for companies that manufacture airplanes, auto...

ASCEND is the world’s first outcomes-focused, transdisciplinary conference designed to accelerate the building of our off-world future. It’s the premier opportunity to collaborate with 3,000+ civil and government leaders, national-security experts, engineers, innovators, businesspeople, policymakers, investors, researchers, and media to address the big questions and challenges facing the future of space and human civilization. Acce...

SMi’s 22nd Annual Global MilSatCom Conference: 10 – 12 November 2020 Focus Day: 9 November 2020 Venue: Virtual Conference & Exhibition: Online Access Onlyhttp://www.globalmilsatcom.com/goveventsWL SMi Group are proud to announce that the 22nd annual Global MilSatCom Conference and Exhibition will be taking place on the 10th, 11th and 12th November as a virtual event. As Europe’s leading military communications event for s...

Hypersonic Weapons are accelerating the pace at DoD for the evaluation of potential weapon system concepts and mission sets. As DoD is preparing for $10 billion to enable fielding of Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGV) within the next five years, this has created a surge of a rapid R&D for Hypersonic Technologies. Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGV) are launched from a rocket before gliding to a target and alternatively, Hypersonic cruise missiles...

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.

ComDef 2020 Washington, DC Conference | Sep 29- Oct 01st | Goals for ComDef 2020 Conference This Administration has shifted focus to near peer competition How will this impact older defense programs? What will its impact be on force structure? What programs are likely to be impacted? What strategies will be given emphasis in exporting? Will there be more protectionism? How will basing adjustments be addressed? How fast will industry adjust to...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. This event defines and showcases the global commercial UAV industry, with a special focus on solutions in the Americas region and a glimpse into the world of urban air mobility. It has shown consistent growth for 5 straight years, with 3,000+ attendees projected in 2019 and a record 188 exhibiting companies. It moves to much larger...

AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference is going virtual. AFA reached this decision only after carefully considering the current and projected state of the COVID-19 pandemic, guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, directives from the State of Maryland and Prince George’s County, and feedback we have received from prospective speakers, attendees, exhibitors, sponsors, Airmen, and Space Professionals. AFA...