May Manufacturing Division Meeting
20-21 May 2025
Arlington, VA
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Fireside Chat - Accelerating and Scaling Private Investment
- Stacy Newstead, Co-Vice Chair, NDIA Manufacturing Division, Chief Executive Officer, Evolution Energy Solutions
- Reza Nifarjam, Deputy Director, Credit Program, Office of Strategic Capital
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Contested Logistics - A Playbook For Investing in Surge Capacity
- John Matlik, Fellow-Digital Transformation Strategy, Northrop Grumman
- Brench Boden, Digital Enterprise Lead, Air Force Research Lab, Virtual
- Michael McGrath, C-Chair, NDIA's Digital Manufacturing Working Group, Principal Consultant, McGrath Analytics
AI to Improve Manufacturing Competitiveness
- Stacy Newstead, Co-Vice Chair, NDIA Manufacturing Division, Chief Executive Officer, Evolution Energy Solutions
- Dr. Paul Deignan, Fellow, Lockheed Martin
- Carolyn Mulhern, Executive Vice President Manufacturing, Palantir Technologies
- Amir Abrari, Systems Engineer, SPEC Innovations
Reducing Burdens on Smaller Defense Manufacturers Panel
- Chris Peters, Senior Advisor, U.S. Partnership for Assured Electronics (USPAE)
- Katharina McFarland, Former Assistant Secretary for Defense (Acquisition)
- Daniele Kurze, Director, Office of Small Business Programs, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
- Mitch Free, Chief Executive Officer & Founder, ZYCI CNC Machining
- Dr. Steven Melnyk, Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Management, Michigan State University