Emerging Technologies for Defense
Conference & Exhibition
"Delivering New Capabilities to the Warfighter at Speed and Scale"
28 – 30 August 2023
Washington, DC
Monday, August 28, 2023
Contested Logistics Technical Presentations
Moderator: Dr. Mark Lewis, CEO, Purdue Applied Research Institute
- Balancing Research Security with Delivering New Capabilities At Speed: Tips & Tools
- Dr. Jessica Appler, Director, Maintaining Technology Advantage, OUSD (R&E)
- Mobilized Large-Format Additive Manufacturing Bolsters Tactical Readiness
- Jeremy Heerdink, Vice President of Business Development, Snowbird Technologies
- Digitally Connected Solutions for the Modern Navy
- Trey Taylor, Director of Digital Innovation, Fairbanks Morse Defense
Game Changers: Leveraging Commercial Microelectronics Into Future DoD Capabilities, Part I
Moderator: Dr. Dev Shenoy, Principal Director for Microelectronics, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
- Jim Brinker, President and General Manager, Intel Corporation
- Dr. William "Bill" Angerer, Director and Chief Engineer, Lockheed Martin Spectrum Convergence
- Doug Bostrom, General Manager of Defense and Aerospace, Qorvo, Inc.
Game Changers: Biotechnology
Moderator: Dr. Kate Sixt, Principal Director for Biotechnology, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
- Dean Kamen, Executive Director of ARMI/BioFabUSA (Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute)
- Dr. Doug Friedman, CEO, BioMADE
C-UAS Technical Presentations
Moderator: Dr. Michael Fritze, Senior Fellow and Former Vice President, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
- Advances in Atom-Based Sensors for PNT
- Dr. Dana Anderson, Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Infleqtion
- The Counter UAS Mission Set: A Case for Directed Energy
- Mark Neice, Former Executive Director, Directed Energy Professional Society
- Quantum RF Sensing
- Dr. William Clark, Vice President, Quantum Development, Infelqtion
Contested Logistics: Current Operational Challenges and Needs
Moderator: Maj Gen Lee Levy, USAF (Ret), Chair, NDIA Logistics Division
- The Hon. Christopher Lowman, ASD (Sustainment)
- Lt Gen Leonard J. Kosinski, USAF, Director of Logistics, J4 Joint Staff
- LTG John Sullivan, USA, Deputy Commander, U.S.TRANSCOM
- Brad Bunn, Vice Director, Defense Logistics Agency
Monday Technical Poster Presentations
- All-In-One Infrastructure Maintenance Vehicle
- Zac Graber, necoTECH
- Investing in the Future: Trends in S&T Spending
- Jacob Winn, Associate Research Fellow, NDIA Emerging Technologies Institute<
- Modeling and Simulation for Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Threat Assessment
- Randy Allen, Chief Scientist, Director of Advanced Research & Development, Lone Star Aerospace
- Leveraging Commercially Available Data to View, Analyze, and Investigate Beyond the Traditional Security Perimeter
- Jared Dible, Sr. Cyber Architect, Millenium Corporation
- Introducing Vertical Soldering
- Dr. Michael Santaspirt, Deputy Chief of Staff, G2, and the Chief Futures Officer, US Army Combat
- NDIA ETI Overview
- Jordan Chase, Associate Research Fellow, NDIA Emerging Technologies Institute
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
C-UAS Technical Presentations
Moderator: Mark Neice, Former Executive Director, Directed Energy Professional Society
- Unpredictable Space-Based ISR Capability
- David Balser, CSO/COO, Honu Consulting LLC
Emerging Tech Game Changers Technical Presentations
Moderator: Dr. Mark Lewis, CEO, Purdue Applied Research Institute
- Artificial Intelligence and Future Analytic Tools Improve Discovery
- Christopher Thomas, SES, Administrator, DoD Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
- Yvette Jacks, Deputy Administrator, DoD Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
- Hypersonics Supply Chains: Securing the Path to the Future
- Rebecca Wostenberg, Research Fellow, NDIA Emerging Technologies Institute
- The Rapidly Expanding Need for Quantum Atomic Clocks
- Dr. Judith Olson, Atomic Clock Portfolio, Technical Lead, Infleqtion
Game Changers – Artificial Intelligence Part I: Transforming Decision Making Through AI
Moderator: Dr. Kim Sablon, Principal Director for Trusted AI and Autonomy, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
- Bharat Patel, Product Lead, Project Linchpin – Sensors AI, PEO Intelligence Electronic Warfare Sensors
- Dr. Steven Rogers, Senior Scientist for Automatic Target Recognition and Sensor Fusion, Air Force Research Laboratory
- Dr. John (Jack) Long, Deputy to Navy Chief AI Officer, Office of Naval Research
Operational Energy Technical Presentations
Moderator: Dr. Maren Leed, Independent Consultant
- Hybrid-Electric Energy in Aviation Assets
- David Friedmann, AFC, DEVCOM, AvMC, Technology Development Directorate
Tuesday Technical Poster Presentations
- GigaMACS™: Empowering Real-Time Edge AI with Nearzero Latency and Extremely Favorable SWaP-C
- Jessica Jones, Vice President of Marketing, Gigantor Technologies Inc.
- Strategic Combine-Arms-Integrated Rapidly Adaptable Expeditionary Drone Swarms
- Jason Morrison, Director Future Operations, LCDM Tech Inc
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Emerging Tech Game Changers Technical Presentations
Moderator: Dr. Mark Lewis, CEO, Purdue Applied Research Institute
- Adaptive Engineering, A Gamechanger in the Evolution of Systems Development
- Vincent DiGirolamo, NC3 Program Manager, Northrop Grumman
- Digital Engineering in the Organic Industrial Base
- Matt Taylor, Vice President of Projects and Engineering, MxD
- Using Digital Twins for Drone Swarm Data Aggregation, Presentation, Mission Planning, and Control
- Dr. Dirk Reiners, Associate Professor, University of Central Florida
Contested Logistics Technical Presentations
Moderator: Dr. Richard "Doc" Klodnicki, President and CEO, AERETI, Inc.
- Solving Contested Logistics Challenges with Energetics
- John Wilkinson, Director, Energetics Futures, NSWC IHD
Game Changers: Leveraging Commercial Microelectronics Into Future DoD Capabilities, Part II
Moderator: Dr. Erik Hadland, Director of Technology Policy at the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)
- Mujtaba Hamid, General Manager, Silicon and ModSim Strategic Missions and Technologies, Microsoft
- Dr. Wesley Allen, Advanced Electronics Director of RF, Electronics, Cyber, (R3), BAE Systems FAST Labs
- Dr. May Casterline, Principal Solutions Architect, NVIDIA