Agenda

All sessions take place at the Caribe Royale

Sunday, November 16
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Registration Palms Atrium
Monday, November 17
8:00 AM - 6:30 PM Registration Palms Atrium
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Training Sessions
  • Providing Hands on Technical Workforce Training in Formats that Meets Needs of Industry and Technical Education
  • Mission Critical: Compliance and Preparing Defense Manufacturers for SBA’s Latest Rules
  • MxD Learn’s Organic Industrial Base Workforce Readiness Guide
  • AI-Enabled Robotics AI Manufacturing Career Pathways Competencies
  • Advancing the Mission with Problem-Centric Innovation
  • Making Products Producible and Supportable through Obsolescence Management
  • Digital Thread Concepts Value Proposition Training Course
  • Additive Manufacturing to Support DoD Critical Hardware Sustainment and Obsolescence Requirements
  • Manufacturing Readiness Levels Training
 Curacao, Bonaire & Grand Sierra
11:30 AM Open Lunch
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM GENERAL SESSION Grand Sierra A-E
1:05 PM Color Guard & National Anthem
1:15 PM Welcome Announcements
1:20 PM Office of Secretary of War Keynote
1:40 PM Office of Secretary of War Keynote
2:00 PM Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Panel Overview
Mr. David Koch, Chair, Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Panel
2:10 PM Defense Logistics Agency ManTech Overview
Mr. David Koch, Director, Defense Logistics Agency, Research and Development
2:35 PM - 3:00 PM Refreshment Break Grand Sierra Foyer
3:00 PM Army ManTech Overview
Dr. Timothy White, Director, Army ManTech
3:15 PM Navy ManTech Overview
Mr. Neil Graf, Navy ManTech Program Lead, Office of Naval Research
3:30 PM Air Force ManTech Overview
Mr. Alan Albert, Deputy Division Chief, Materials & Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory
3:45 PM Office of Secretary of Defense ManTech Overview
Mr. Justin McRoberts, Program Manager, Office of the Under Secretary of War, Research & Engineering (OUSW(R&E))
4:00 PM Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Awards (DMTAA)
presented by: SME
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM Opening Networking Reception (Opening of Exhibits) Palms Ballroom
Tuesday, November 18
7:00 AM - 6:30 PM Registration Grand Sierra Foyer
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast Grand Sierra Foyer
8:00 AM - 11:30 AM GENERAL SESSION Grand Sierra A-E
8:00 AM Welcome Announcements
8:10 AM Senior Administration Keynote
9:00 AM Warfighter Keynote
9:25 AM - 9:45 AM Refreshment Break Grand Sierra Foyer
9:45 AM Accelerating the Industrial Base Keynote
Mr. Kevin Czinger, Founder & Executive Chairman, Divergent 3D Technologies
10:10 AM PEO Keynote
10:35 AM PANEL: Restoring the Defense Industrial Base: Building Resiliency, Securing the Supply Chain and Creating Economic Deterrence
Moderator: Dr. Vic Ramdass, Acting Assistant Secretary of War for Industrial Base Policy
  • 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
  • Maj Gen Mark Sanford, Director of Logistics Operations (J3) and Commander of Joint Regional Combat Support for the Defense Logistics Agency
  • Mr. Vince Harris, CEO, Metamagnetics
11:30 AM Exhibit Hall Opens (closes at 6:30 PM) Palms Ballroom
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Networking Lunch (in the Exhibit Hall) Palms Ballroom
1:30 PM Technical Sessions Curacao, Bonaire & Grand Sierra
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM Refreshment Break Grand Sierra Foyer
3:15 PM Technical Sessions Curacao, Bonaire & Grand Sierra
4:45 PM - 6:30 PM Networking Reception Palms Ballroom
Wednesday, November 19
7:00 AM - 4:00 PM Registration Grand Sierra Foyer
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast Grand Sierra Foyer
8:15 AM Technical Sessions Curacao, Bonaire & Grand Sierra
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM Refreshment Break Grand Sierra Foyer
10:00 AM Exhibit Hall Opens (closes at 3:30 PM) Palms Ballroom
10:00 AM Technical Sessions Curacao, Bonaire & Grand Sierra
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Networking Lunch (in the Exhibit Hall) Palms Ballroom
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Poster Session Q&A Palms Ballroom
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM GENERAL SESSION Grand Sierra A-E
1:00 PM Welcome Announcements
1:10 PM Industry Association Keynote
Dr. Rob Atkinson, President, ITIF (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation)
1:35 PM PANEL: Advanced Manufacturing to Meet the Warfighter’s Needs (Restoring the Warrior Ethos)
  • Ms. Amanda Gentry, Director, Air Force Material Command Integrated Development Office
  • Mr. Steve Fournier, Additive Manufacturing Manager, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
  • Mr. Paul Peterson, Senior Vice President, Visolis
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Closing Networking Break
(Exhibit Hall closes at 3:30 PM)		 Palms Ballroom
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM GENERAL SESSION Grand Sierra A-E
3:30 PM PANEL: From Mill to Missile: Advanced Manufacturing for Munitions
Moderator: Mr. Tony Garcia, Director of Munitions Technologies, Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research & Engineering
4:25 PM Innovator Keynote
Mr. Dean Kamen, DEKA
4:50 PM Closing Announcements
Thursday, November 20
7:00 AM - 3:00 PM Registration Grand Sierra Foyer
7:45 AM - 8:30 AM Group Breakfast Grand Sierra A-E
8:30 AM Breakfast Speaker
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM Transition to Technical Sessions
9:10 AM Technical Sessions Curacao, Bonaire & Grand Sierra
10:40 AM - 10:45 AM Refreshment Break
10:45 AM Technical Sessions Curacao, Bonaire & Grand Sierra
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM Open Lunch
1:30 PM Technical Sessions Curacao, Bonaire & Grand Sierra
3:00 PM Conference Adjourns

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