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SpaceCom

SpaceCom | Space Congress exclusively draws participation from industry leaders and organizations with the power to drive new space strategies, fuel forward progress, signal demand…

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2025 Special Air Warfare Symposium

Since its inception in 2022, the Special Air Warfare Symposium (colloquially known as SAWS) has evolved into a growing event for the global special operations…

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2025 Pacific Operational Science & Technology (POST) Conference

Join NDIA and the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command for the 2025 Pacific Operational Science & Technology (POST) Conference. This event promises to deliver a platform for…

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Military Women’s Symposium

The Military Women’s Symposium 2025 (MWS25) will take place March 6-7, 2025. This year’s topics include Policy Challenges & Gaps, Servicewomen in Leadership, Health &…

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2025 National Fire Control Symposium

The National Fire Control Symposium (NFCS) is a tri-service supported event with technical program lead advisory rotating among the services. The U.S. Navy will provide…

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2025 Space Technologies Independent Research & Development (IR&D) Technology Interchange Meeting

During the week of 24-28 March 2025, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), on behalf of the DoD Space Community of Interest (COI), will host…

Past Events

Transformative Vertical Flight

The 9th Annual Electric VTOL Symposium will take place in San Jose, California, in conjunction with the Aeromechanics for Advanced Vertical Flight Technical Meeting. More…

The 68th Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

The theme for the 68th Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium is “opportunities for machine learning in reliability and maintainability.” RAMS attendees will be able to…

Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC)

The Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC) will be conducted simultaneously with the Parts and Material Management Conference, formerly named the Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages…

Defense Manufacturing Conference

The annual Defense Manufacturing Conference will feature subject matter experts from the government, industry, and academia, as well as the voices of engineers, scientists, and…

Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force (JANNAF) December Subcommittee Meetings

Subcommittee meetings are spread from Monday through Friday, December 6-10, and Monday through Thursday, December 13-16. Topics include the following: 47th Structures and Mechanical Behavior…

Counter UAS Technology 2021

With the establishment of the DoD Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office (JCO), there’s a strong national push to develop a centralized approach to face…