September 22-24, 2026 | NATIONAL HARBOR, MD
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| Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit | Resilience Week | SBIR/STTR Innovation Conference | Sponsored Innovation Challenges | |||
| TUESDAY, September 22 | ||||||
| 0730-0830 | Coffee and Networking | |||||
| 0830-1000 | Keynotes | |||||
| 1000-1030 | Coffee Break | |||||
| 1030-1115 | Critical Technology Spotlight: Biotech and Health Security I | How to Work with the Department of War (DoW) |
LEAN Power Overview of Collaboration and Funding Opportunities |
Session in Coordination | SBIR/STTR 101 and Agency Briefings | AI x SatCom Launch Vehicle |
| 1130-1215 | Critical Technology Spotlight: Biotech and Health Security II | Defense Investment Panel |
Session in Coordination | |||
| 1215-1330 | Lunch (On Own) | |||||
| 13:00 | Expo Hall Opens, LEAN Power Office Hours at Booth (1300-1800), SBIR/STTR Agency Pavilion Opens | |||||
| 1330-1415 | Critical Technology Spotlight: Advanced Electronics I | Operational Energy and Logistics (OELS) I: Contested Logistics |
Department of War (DoW) SBIR I (invited) | Session in Coordination | Session in Coordination | Industrial Biotech Innovation Prize Challenge |
| 1430-1515 | Critical Technology Spotlight: Advanced Electronics II | TechConnect Critical Technology Spotlight: Energy and Resilience I |
Department of War (DoW) SBIR II (invited) | Session in Coordination | Session in Coordination | |
| 1530-1615 | Panel Sponsored By: |
TechConnect Critical Technology Spotlight: Energy and Resilience II |
Department of War (DoW) SBIR III (invited) | Session in Coordination | Session in Coordination | |
| 1600-1800 | Defense TechConnect, SBIR/STTR Pavilion, and Defense TechConnect Poster Session Expo Social | |||||
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| Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit | Resilience Week | SBIR/STTR Innovation Conference | Sponsored Innovation Challenges | |||
| WEDNESDAY, September 23 | ||||||
| 0745-0830 | Coffee and Networking | |||||
| 0830-1000 | Keynotes | |||||
| 1000-1030 | Coffee Break | |||||
| 1030-1115 | AI Adoption for Defense and National Security |
DARPA Connect |
LEAN Power Technical Managers Briefings |
Session in Coordination | Session in Coordination | Maritime Manufacturing Innovation Challenge |
| 1130-1215 | TechConnect Critical Technology Spotlight: Autonomy/ATI /Cyber I |
Frontier House |
Session in Coordination | Session in Coordination | ||
| 1215-1330 | Lunch (On Own) | |||||
| 13:00 | Expo Hall Opens, LEAN Power Office Hours at Booth (1300-1800), SBIR/STTR Agency Pavilion Opens | |||||
| 1330-1415 | TechConnect Critical Technology Spotlight: Autonomy/ATI/Cyber II |
Materials and Manufacturing Innovation Spotlights I | DoW SBIR IV (invited) | Session in Coordination | Session in Coordination | Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology Challenge |
| 1430-1515 | Space Innovation Spotlights I | Materials and Manufacturing Innovation Spotlights II | DoW SBIR V (invited) | Session in Coordination | Session in Coordination | |
| 1530-1615 | Panel Sponsored By |
OELS II: Energy in the Battlefield |
DoW SBIR VI (invited) | Session in Coordination | Session in Coordination | |
| 1600-1800 | Defense TechConnect, SBIR/STTR Pavilion, and Resilience Week Poster Session Expo Social | |||||
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| Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit | Resilience Week | |||||
| THURSDAY, September 24 | ||||||
| 0800-0900 | Coffee and Networking | |||||
| 0900-0945 | TechConnect Critical Technology Spotlights | OELS III: Critical Infrastructure |
Modularity Meets Hard Science: Tools to Define Munition Performance Requirements by AFRL | Session in Coordination | ||
| 1000-1045 | TechConnect Critical Technology Spotlights | OELS IV: Roundtable/Path Forward to 2027 |
MOSA for Modern Flight: Integrating Autonomous Behaviors Across Uncrewed Platforms by SNC | Session in Coordination | ||
| 1100-1200 | TechConnect Critical Technology Spotlights | Accelerating Resilient Navigation through a Modular Testing Open System Architecture (TOSA) for Hypersonic Platforms by Colvin Run Networks | Session in Coordination | |||
| 1200 | Close of Conference | |||||
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