 We're excited announce an exceptional lineup of speakers addressing today's most pressing acquisition challenges at our upcoming virtual, interactive event, "Creating Synergy for Change: Transitioning Technology to the Warfighter," NPS' 22nd Annual Acquisition Research Symposium and Innovation Summit, taking place May 7-8, 2025 from 0800-1600 Central Time. View the complete program and complete your registration here.
This event brings together senior leaders, decision-makers, industry practitioners, and academic experts who are actively transforming how the DOD develops, acquires, and fields new capabilities.
Their insights are particularly timely as the defense community grapples with the challenge of accelerating technology transition, leveraging commercial innovation, and ensuring strategic advantage in an increasingly complex global environment.
This event will feature:
• Mr. Steven J. Morani, Performing Duties of USD(A&S), opens the event with insights on DOD efforts to ensure that cutting-edge technologies are rapidly integrated into our defense systems and unmatched capability delivered to the warfighter.
• A MILDEP roundtable featuring senior Navy and Army leadership, chaired by Mr. Michael Williamson, LTG, USA (ret.), will discuss the progress, challenges, priorities, and future plans to realize the Navy and Army vision for acquisition modernization.
• Mr. Doug Beck, Director of the Defense Innovation Unit, joins NPS President Ann Rondeau, VADM USN (ret.) for an interactive fireside chat on bringing innovative technology and unmatched capability to the warfighter with the focus, scale, and speed necessary for strategic superiority.
• And the Hon. Sean Stackley, former Acting Secretary of the Navy and the longest serving ASN(RDA), brings his unique perspective on the past, present, and future of defense acquisition, based on decades of experience with major ships programs, as a Congressional staffer, and in senior leadership roles in the Navy and in industry.
With the current momentum behind acquisition reform and emerging technologies reshaping the defense landscape, this is a pivotal moment for defense acquisition.
Please join us online May 7-8, from 0800 - 1600 Central Time, to take part in this important conversation on the future of defense acquisition.
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