Agenda

• Providing Hands on Technical Workforce Training in Formats that Meets Needs of Industry and Technical Education
  Mr. Andrew Pokelwaldt, IACMI
• Mission Critical: Compliance and Preparing Defense Manufacturers for SBA’s Latest Rules
  Ms. Meghan Leemon, PilieroMazza PLLC
  Ms. Lauren Brier, PilieroMazza PLLC
• MxD Learn’s Organic Industrial Base Workforce Readiness Guide
  Mrs. Angela Accurso, MxD
• AI-Enabled Robotics AI Manufacturing Career Pathways Competencies
  Ms. Lisa Masciantonio, ARM Institute
  Ms Suzanne Teele, ARM Institute
• Advancing the Mission with Problem-Centric Innovation
  Mrs. Miesha Spann, Defense Logistics Agency
• Digital Thread Concepts Value Proposition Training Course
  Mr. James Brino, Connecticut Ctr for Advanced Technology Inc
• Additive Manufacturing to Support DoD Critical Hardware Sustainment and Obsolescence Requirements
  Mr. Gregory Colvin, Honeywell Aerospace
• Manufacturing Readiness Levels Training
  Mr. Barry Burton, AFIT/LSS

• Ms. Tracy Frost, Director, Technology Industrial Innovation Base, Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, Department of War
• Mr. Mike Molnar, Director Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, National Institute for Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce

Our defense strategy of Rebuilding the Military relies directly upon the capability, capacity and resilience of our defense industrial base (DIB), which has experienced fragility brought about by economic, technological, supply and policy challenges. This panel will discuss these challenges and the current initiatives enabling advanced manufacturing technologies to restore our DIB to be an arsenal of freedom. Topics include pillars from the National Defense Industrial Strategy, investments across USW(R&E) and USW(A&S), illuminating and securing the defense supply chain and managing the global economic competition environment.

• Mr. Mike Holthe, Performing the Duties of Assistant Secretary of War for Science & Technology, Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering
• Ms. Emily Vogeler, SES, J34 Executive Director, Logistics Policy and Programs
• Mr. Vince Harris, CEO, Metamagnetics
• Mr. Matt Gratias, VP of Federal Programs, Relativity Space

• Advanced Manufacturing Enterprise (AME): DARPA Panel on Rubble to Rockets
• Army Outreach
• Composites: Manufacturing of Bonded Structures
• Directed Energy: High Energy Laser Systems
• Education & Workforce Development (EWD)
• Electronics: Electronics Attack and Sense
• Energetics: Ingredients
• Manufacturing Readiness Levels (MRLs)
• Metals
• Robotics

• Advanced Manufacturing Enterprise (AME): Advancing Model-Based Engineering
• Composites: Manufacturing of Thermoplastic Composite Structures
• Directed Energy: High Power Microwave
• Education & Workforce Development (EWD)
• Electronics: Chip Scale Atomic Clock
• Energetics: Ingredients
• Manufacturing Readiness Levels (MRLs)
• Metals
• Navy Outreach
• Robotics

• Advanced Manufacturing Enterprise (AME): Modernizing Technical Data for the Digital Thread
• Composites: Manufacturing of Composite Structures via Advanced Fiber Placement
• DLA Outreach
• Electronics: Advanced Packaging
• Energetics: Ingredients
• Joint Additive Manufacturing Working Group (JAMWG)
• Manufacturing Capability Expansion and Investment Prioritization (MCEIP)
• Manufacturing Readiness Levels (MRLs)
• Metals
• Robotics

• Advanced Manufacturing Enterprise (AME): Translating Technical Data for the Digital Thread
• Air Force Outreach
• Composites: Advanced Manufacturing of Polymeric and Composite Structures
• Electronics: Electronics in Extreme Environments
• Energetics: Advanced Analytics & Processing
• Joint Additive Manufacturing Working Group (JAMWG)
• Manufacturing Capability Expansion and Investment Prioritization (MCEIP)
• Manufacturing Roundtable
• Metals
• Robotics

The US has long relied on technological superiority to ensure warfighter preeminence in battle. The number of advanced weapon systems under development and the speed at which they must be delivered are increasing while the advanced technologies being incorporated into weapon system design and manufacturing are maturing at a stunning pace. The recent Acquisition Transformation Strategy substantially revises the pathways for manufacturing and technology adoption and the Department’s commercial-first strategy requires advanced manufacturing to meet scale-up production targets. This panel will focus on how industry and government can best work together to navigate these demands and opportunities to ensure the warfighter has the most advanced and cost-effective weapon systems available.

• Ms. Amanda Gentry, Director, Air Force Material Command Integrated Development Office
• Mr. Steve Fournier, Additive Manufacturing Manager, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
• Mr. Paul Petersen, Senior Vice President, Visolis

Numerous global events have shown the criticality of maintaining a reliable and robust US supply chain for munitions production. From conventional munitions to hypersonic weapons, US industrial capability covers a wide waterfront of traditional manufacturing such as casting and forging of metal, to advanced high temperature processing of ceramic matrix composites, and biomanufacturing of energetics. Based upon lessons from the Ukraine conflict, required production rates must be elastic and capable of surge over weeks and months, not years. This panel will discuss the economic, technological, and policy challenges and opportunities before the defense industrial base in maintaining and growing a capability US production capability.

• Mr. Cody Johnson, Explosives Industrial Base Branch, US Army DEVCOM Armaments Center, FCDD-ACM-EJ
• Mr. John Shultz, Director for Manufacturing Capabilities Expansion and Investment Prioritization, Office of the Under Secretary of War for Acquisitions and Sustainment, OSD
• Mr. Jorgen Pedersen, CEO, The ARM Institute
• Mr. Mike Patton, Vice President of Operations, Missiles and Fire Control, Lockheed Martin

• Silent Memorial Walk
• Manufacturing for the Mission Exhibits

• Advanced Manufacturing Enterprise (AME): Mitigating Supply Chain Risks - Security and Discovery
• Biotechnology
• Composites: Manufacturing for High Speed Composite Structures I
• Electronics: Technology Transitions in Hybrid Electronics
• Energetics: Advanced Analytics & Processing
• Manufacturing For And In Space
• Metals
• Power Sources
• Robotics
• Soft Materials

• Advanced Manufacturing Enterprise (AME): Leveraging Augmented Reality for Defense
• Biotechnology
• Composites: Manufacturing for High Speed Composite Structures II
• Electronics: Semiconductors
• Energetics: Advanced Analytics & Processing
• Manufacturing For And In Space
• Metals
• Power Sources
• Robotics
• Soft Materials

• Advanced Manufacturing Enterprise (AME): JDMTP Subpanel
• Biotechnology
• Electronics: Focal Plane Arrays
• Electronics II: Integrated Photonics
• Metals
• Power Sources
• Strategic Materials