2022 OELS DETAILED PROGRAM

Join our panel of experts in a discussion about recommended pathways to work with the military and large defense companies (primes). From those new to working with the Department of Defense to those who have experience with military customers, this session will give you ideas and new connections.

The Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlights are designed to accelerate private-sector and defense-sourced technology solutions aligned with warfighter and national security problem-sets.

The National Infrastructure Innovation Challenge (NIIC) Finalists compete for a $50K prize pool sponsored by Resilient Infrastructure & Secure Energy Consortium (RISE), National Spectrum Consortium (NSC), and Consortium for Rare Earth Technologies (CREaTe). NIIC aligns with the nation's monumental investments through the Infrastructure Law, the House's American COMPETES Act and the Senate's U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA).

Join Michael Wu, Executive Director of the Resilient Infrastructure and Secure Energy (RISE) Consortium, for a moderated conversation with senior climate officials from DoD. Attendees will learn about the evolving global strategic environment, threats to U.S. military missions and strategic interests related to climate, and innovations and investments to strengthen DoD's resilience posture.

This session discusses how states and tribal governments are unlocking a historic amount of federal investment in energy resilience through opportunities such as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The panelists will discuss how this opportunity can be leveraged to create a lasting transformation in resilience planning, which can thereby solidify a process for sustained, efficient, and effective energy resilience investment. Particular focus will be on understanding the analytical and informational needs of states and tribes as they embark on this transformation, and areas where the research community are poised to support these needs

The Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlights are designed to accelerate private-sector and defense-sourced technology solutions aligned with warfighter and national security problem-sets.

The National Infrastructure Innovation Challenge (NIIC) Finalists compete for a $50K prize pool sponsored by Resilient Infrastructure & Secure Energy Consortium (RISE), National Spectrum Consortium (NSC), and Consortium for Rare Earth Technologies (CREaTe). NIIC aligns with the nation's monumental investments through the Infrastructure Law, the House's American COMPETES Act and the Senate's U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA).

Join the first ever innovation acceleration challenge for America's DataHub Consortium (ADC), representing the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) - the National Science Foundation's (NSF) statistical agency and one of 13 statistical agencies across the Federal government. This $50K Prize Pool Challenge seeks the tools of new data integration and distribution solutions, data linking, as well as data security and privacy innovation, in order to more effectively use information to solve some of our toughest challenges.

Agency presentations on current and upcoming funding opportunities. SBA overview of additional Agencies and closing brief. Agency reps will be available to speak with attendees in the Expo Hall 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

The cybersecurity crossroads of national security and the private sector. Attendees will learn about the blurring battle space between critical infrastructure owner/operators and the mission assurance they support in the Department of Defense and how coordinated cyber defense is essential to staving off the worst consequences of global energy insecurity.

Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Maria, Winter Storm Uri. No community is immune from the effects of extreme weather events caused by a changing climate. In this session, attendees will learn from organizations responsible for building our resilient future by designing infrastructure and planning criteria that prioritizes climate resilience.

The Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlights are designed to accelerate private-sector and defense-sourced technology solutions aligned with warfighter and national security problem-sets.

The National Infrastructure Innovation Challenge (NIIC) Finalists compete for a $50K prize pool sponsored by Resilient Infrastructure & Secure Energy Consortium (RISE), National Spectrum Consortium (NSC), and Consortium for Rare Earth Technologies (CREaTe). NIIC aligns with the nation's monumental investments through the Infrastructure Law, the House's American COMPETES Act and the Senate's U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA).

Join the first ever innovation acceleration challenge for America's DataHub Consortium (ADC), representing the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) - the National Science Foundation's (NSF) statistical agency and one of 13 statistical agencies across the Federal government. This $50K Prize Pool Challenge seeks the tools of new data integration and distribution solutions, data linking, as well as data security and privacy innovation, in order to more effectively use information to solve some of our toughest challenges.

The Operational Energy and Logistics Innovation Spotlights are designed to accelerate private-sector and defense-sourced technology solutions aligned with operational energy and logistics capabilities to support the DoD's needs.

Too many good ideas hatched in research labs never make it to operational technology securing real systems. Why? Is the technology not the right solution at the right time? Are motivations and incentives misaligned between research and OEMs? Can it be solved through more demonstration? Is the gap less in the technology and more in the policy and/or market realities? Or is it a mix of all of these factors?

While mitigation – the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions – is getting a great deal of attention and capturing the majority of funds allocated in response to the climate crisis, infrastructure adaption and resilience is not adequately prioritized at present. Without a plan to identify and protect the most important infrastructure elements that undergird critical DHS missions, key USG functions will begin to experience unacceptable impairment and potentially, failure. In this interactive talk we will describe the three key elements of a pilot we're designing to address these challenges:

The National Infrastructure Innovation Challenge (NIIC) Finalists compete for a $50K prize pool sponsored by Resilient Infrastructure & Secure Energy Consortium (RISE), National Spectrum Consortium (NSC), and Consortium for Rare Earth Technologies (CREaTe). NIIC aligns with the nation's monumental investments through the Infrastructure Law, the House's American COMPETES Act and the Senate's U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA).

Join the first ever innovation acceleration challenge for America's DataHub Consortium (ADC), representing the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) - the National Science Foundation's (NSF) statistical agency and one of 13 statistical agencies across the Federal government. This $50K Prize Pool Challenge seeks the tools of new data integration and distribution solutions, data linking, as well as data security and privacy innovation, in order to more effectively use information to solve some of our toughest challenges.

Next generation energy and logistics solutions to power the force is at the forefront of DoD priorities. Learn from this expert panel representing combatant commands, retired military, and federal laboratories as they discuss direct energy, nuclear, and other solutions to support our agile forces around the world.

The Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlights are designed to accelerate private-sector and defense-sourced technology solutions aligned with warfighter and national security problem-sets.

Join the world's largest medical innovation acceleration and awards program, featuring a $200K in prize pool aligned with four leading medtech consortia representing over $20 Billion in health technology contracting authority. This is the second in a series of ATI sponsored accelerator events aligned with government, industry and societal needs.

Join the Urban Air Mobility acceleration and $50K Prize awards program sponsored by the Vertical Lift Consortium, the nation's leading organization rapidly transitioning innovative aviation technologies for the U.S. government.

Energy is an enabler of joint military capabilities, and ensuring availability of sufficient energy supplies will only grow in importance with the development of new energy-intensive technologies. Distributed operations and contested logistics will challenge the sustainment of combat forces and place a premium on capabilities with longer range, time on station, endurance, and the ability to adapt to evolving energy needs. U.S. Air Force and DoD experts in logistics, wargaming, and energy will discuss how this will impact operations and affect our ability to sustain the fight.

This session will dive deep into the when, why, and what it takes to execute three types of energy resilience exercises: tabletop, functional, and full-scale. Panelists will share their own real-world experiences to help the audience understand which exercise type is best for their own organization's energy resilience goals and how the exercises can be complementary.

This session will present and demonstrate technical assistance provided by national laboratories to support energy resilience in at-risk communities. The session will begin with an overview of the Microgrid Conceptual Design Methodology, which enables communities to identify and priorities the critical services necessary to be powered during a resilience event. This discussion will include some of the core resilience metrics used to evaluate and improve resilience, such as the social burden metric which quantifies the additional effort that people must expend to obtain critical services during an electric outage. Next, place-based examples of past and ongoing technical assistance in island and remote communities will be presented. To end, as an interactive effort, the audience members will be collectively work through an exercise, guided by the presenters, to prioritize critical loads and begin the design process of a microgrid on “Paradise Island,” a fictional location with challenges reminiscent of the real-world locations the presenters have worked with.

The Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlights are designed to accelerate private-sector and defense-sourced technology solutions aligned with warfighter and national security problem-sets.

Join the world's largest medical innovation acceleration and awards program, featuring a $200K in prize pool aligned with four leading medtech consortia representing over $20 Billion in health technology contracting authority. This is the second in a series of ATI sponsored accelerator events aligned with government, industry and societal needs.

Join the Urban Air Mobility acceleration and $50K Prize awards program sponsored by the Vertical Lift Consortium, the nation's leading organization rapidly transitioning innovative aviation technologies for the U.S. government.

The character of war is changing. Hear from military leadership on how they are operating in a 21st century enviroment. Overall military logistics and specific projects will be discussed.

The Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlights are designed to accelerate private-sector and defense-sourced technology solutions aligned with warfighter and national security problem-sets.