The SMD Symposium is the leading educational, professional development and networking event in the space and missile defense community. The symposium is widely attended by leaders and professionals from the United States and our allies around the world. Key features of this year’s symposium included the following: Technology Track – Abstracts until May 25th, 2019 Tuesday evening networking event Wednesday evening dinner Presentatio...

ENABLING TECHNOLOGICAL SUPERIORITY: DEFINE. DEVELOP. DELIVER. NDIA, in partnership with Purdue University, will host a comprehensive program on hypersonic systems. Together with government, industry and academia partners, NDIA will present the technical foundations of hypersonic systems, the current approach to rapidly developing hypersonic capabilities, and the warfighter, policy, and acquisition perspectives to delivering a sustainable opera...

DevOps in the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise Learn about how the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E) is using DevOps and constant coordination with industry to ensure latest tools get to IC and DoD customers (Programs and developers). The DI2E Developer Collaboration Tools are used by Government programs and their supporting developers and provide documentation and design artifact hosting, issue tracking, and projec...

The San Diego Chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) is proud to present the NDIA 31st Annual Department of the Navy Gold Coast Small Business Procurement Event: Engaging with Small Business to Fortify National Defense. The NDIA Department of the Navy Gold Coast Event is the premier Navy procurement conference in the country. Gold Coast provides a forum to educate, guide, and assist businesses, large and small, in suppo...

Join us for the Annual CBRN Defense Conference and Exhibition July 23 – 24, 2019 in Wilmington, DE. The Department of Defense is focused on remapping the way they do business, and they have highlighted industry collaboration as a top priority in order to accomplish readiness and modernization goals for future combat systems, survivability, and securing the nation’s defense. This conference and exhibition will provide the opportunit...

Please join the Greater Hampton Roads Chapter for their Joint Warfighting Forum (JWF) to be held at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia on July 15th. Forum Focus Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) have received increasing attention as the U.S. military considers future armed conflict. Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, hypersonic weapons, nanotechnology, and robotics are driving a fundamental change in the char...

This is NDIA’s 10th Annual IAMD event on a critical national defense topic, and the subject of an increasingly important and continuously growing new body of military art: The State of Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD). This annual symposium event, since its beginning, is a team effort of the NDIA Strike, Land Attack and Air Defense Division along with the NDIA Missile Defense Division.Our theme this year, “Defense Against...

This summer, top-notch M&S demonstrations from around the country will be brought to the nation’s capital at the 13th Annual 2019 Capitol Hill Modeling and Simulation Expo. Limited time, strained budgets, or undertrained staff threaten our nation’s readiness to respond to a black swan event. Modeling and simulation (M&S) provides opportunities to prepare for and predict the unpredictable in these situations. Our nation...

On Wednesday, June 26, join NDIA as we host Rep. Anthony Brown(MD-4) for an off-the-record breakfast issues facing the defense industrial base. As the Vice Chair of the House Committee on Armed Services (HASC), Rep. Brown will provide his thoughts on congressional priorities going into this year's legislative cycle, including Workforce Development, Other Transaction Authority (OTA), and Cybersecurity Contracting Compliance. Participants will h...

Please join NDIA Tennessee Valley Chapter's Missile Defense Agency Small Business Programs Conference in Huntsville, AL June 25-26. This is the 20th year for the conference. The program will include briefings from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Office of Small Business Programs, the Directors of MDA Acquisitions, MDA Contracts and Program Office officials on relative upcoming MDA procurements. Finally, The MDA Small Business Adv...