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Upcoming Events

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2025 Energetic Materials Technology Working Group Meeting

The 2025 Energetic Materials Technology Working Group Meeting is a major international forum for exchange and dissemination of information on the latest advancements in insensitive…

Threat Weapons & Effects (TWE) Training 2025

We regret to announce that the Threat Weapons Effects (TWE) Training 2025, scheduled for 28-29 October 2025, has been canceled and will not be rescheduled for 2025. The next event will be the regularly scheduled training in the spring of 2026. A specific date has not been set for 2026 yet.

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Hypersonic Innovation Conference

Defense Strategies Institute’s 4th Annual Hypersonic Innovation Conference will support the United States’ ability to develop and operationalize hypersonic weapons as well as defend against…

A U.S. Marine with 3d Marine Division bounds during a live-fire range on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 14, 2025. The four-day field exercise focused on marksmanship skills and fire team fire and movement, strengthening the unit’s combat capabilities. Live-fire ranges give Marines the opportunity to engage and destroy targets in a dynamic environment, enhancing battlefield effectiveness. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Rodney Frye)

2026 Combined Light Armor Survivability Panel (CLASP)

REGISTRATION IS OPEN!   OVERVIEW:  CLASP is a working-level meeting for engineers and technical personnel from science and technology development, system integration, and program management…

Past Events

2020 Directed Energy Summit

The 2020 Directed Energy Summit will showcase significant progress in maturing directed energy solutions in support of the U.S. national defense strategy. The era of…

2020 Hypersonic Weapons Summit

The age of hypersonic weapons is upon us. In light of ongoing efforts to rapidly enable next-generation hypersonic capabilities, IDGA‘s Hypersonic Weapons events series has…

2020 Munitions Executive Summit

Join us in Parsippany, NJ, from March 30 to April 1, 2020, for the Munitions Executive Summit. The purpose of the summit is to provide a…

2020 Undersea Warfare Spring Conference

Join more than 300 key industry and government stakeholders at this premier classified, undersea event. WHY ATTEND? NETWORK with 300+ key industry and government undersea warfare…

56th Annual St. Louis Section/Refractory Ceramics Division Symposium on Refractories

On March 25-26, 2020, the St. Louis Section and the Refractory Ceramics Division of The American Ceramic Society will sponsor the 56th Annual Symposium on Refractories…

Building More Survivable Defense Systems and More Effective Weapons: A Short Course on LFT&E – Spring 2020

Taught by former Director of Live Fire for DOT&E, Mr. James F. O’Bryon, this 3-day, intensive short course takes a multifaceted look at the legislation,…