Session Category: AIAA DEFENSE Forum 2024
Technical Presentations
Lunch Available
Keynote Panel: Lessons Learned from Ukraine and U.S. Central Command
Panelists will share lessons learned from these recent conflicts, focusing on innovation in tactics and technology, and applying these lessons to future technology development and acquisition.
Keynote Speaker: Threat Discussion
Speaker from National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC)
Keynote Panel: Accelerating Transition and Transformation
In this panel, defense leaders will describe how their organizations develop and advance critical capabilities to the field to meet operational needs and provide strategic advantages.
Keynote: Operational Advantages and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy
Keynote Panel: Energizing the Industrial Base to Deliver Affordable Capacity
While America continues to generate the world’s most capable weapons systems, it must have the capacity to produce those capabilities at speed and scale to maximize our advantage” (2023 National Defense Industrial Strategy, p. 7). Hear from senior defense industry leaders as they discuss impediments and opportunities to accelerating affordable capacity across the industrial base.
Keynote Speaker: Defense Industrial Base Strategy
Hear an update from DoD Industrial Base Policy on the national defense industrial strategy and implementation plan. Topics include achieving affordable capacity, industrial base resilience, and resource prioritization.
Keynote Panel: Leveraging Technology for Operational Advantage
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How do we accelerate technology development to create operational advantages? Hear from Combatant Command leaders as they describe how they take existing solutions, new innovations, and emerging technologies and use them as tools to provide a competitive edge.