September 22-24, 2026 | National Harbor, MD
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  2026 SPEAKERS  


Kirk Avery

Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, LM Senior Fellow, Mission Systems and Autonomous Technologies Chief Architect, Lockheed Martin

Eric Bennett

Senior Technical Expert, Vehicle Electronics and Architecture (VEA), GVSC, US Army

Joshua Bissell

MOSA Lead – Senior Systems Engineer, US Army - Headquarters – ASA(ALT) - ADASM(DES)

Josh Booth

Chief Architect, FLRAA PMO/Aether Aerospace

Suzanne Borders

CEO and Founder, BadVR, Inc.

Nick Borton

SOSA® Consortium Director, The Open Group

Alex Boydston

Digital Engineering Chief, Capability Program Executive Aviation (CPE Aviation)

Doug Britton

EVP and CSO, RunSafe Security

Patrick Buckley

Digital Solutions Architect, Integration Innovation, Inc. (i3)

Stephanie Burns

Senior Technical Fellow, Collins Aerospace

Jonathan Cain

Sr. Engineering Manager, Raytheon

Casey Carter

Senior Technical Fellow, PeopleTec

BG Kevin S. Chaney

Deputy Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Maneuver Air, Redstone Arsenal, U.S. Army

Glenn Colby

Chief Technology Officer, CATSHOT Group

Samuel Courtney

WOSA Lead Engineer, AFRL Air Warfare Directorate

Andrew Crumrine

Senior Architect – MV-75 Cheyenne II, Bell

Jeff Cunningham

Senior Architect – MV-75 Cheyenne II, Bell

Dr. Macam Dattathreya

Senior Scientific Technical Manager, US Army

Bryan Doyle

Chief Autonomy Engineer for ALC, Shield AI

Steven Drake

Director, System of Systems Acquisition Decision Information, Assistant Deputy for Acquisition Systems Management (Data, Engineering, and Software), Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology) [ADASM (DES) / SAAL-ZE / ASA(ALT)]

Susan Ebner

Co-Chair, National Defense Industrial Association's Cyber Division's Cyber Legal Regulatory Policy Committee

Adam Frederick

Program Manager, Maneuver Air Directorate

Caleb Freeman

Associate Technical Fellow, Sierra Nevada Corporation

Adam Gately

Business Development Executive, DeepSig, Inc.

Jacob Glassman

Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Critical Technologies, Office of the Secretary of War

Guilherme Goretkin

Principal Engineer for Safety and Embedded Software, Ansys part of Synopsy

Francis Govers

Director of Engineering for Unmanned Systems, Airbus US Space and Defense

Kent Halverson

Deputy, Technical Operations Group, Aptima

Denis Hamel

Director, Developmental Flight Tes, Airbus Helicopters, Inc.

Eric Hannis

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Strategy and Acquisition Reform, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology)

Raymond Hartley

Product Manager, US Army PM C2 Infrastructure, CPE C2IN, CMOSS Mounted Form Factor

BG Timothy M. Helfrich

Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Fighters and Advanced Aircraft, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Air Force Materiel Command, U.S. Air Force

Joanne Herring

Senior Advisor for Intellectual Property, Office of the Secretary of War (OSW), Intellectual Property Cadre

Daniel Hettema

Director of Digital Engineering, Modeling & Simulation (DEM&S), Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering (OUSW R&E)

Jarrett Holcomb

Manager (R&D), Southwest Research Institute

Tom Houman

Vice President of Technology, Colvin Run Networks

Gordon Hunt

Co-Founder, Skayl

Bill Jacobs

Chief Technical Architect, US Army CPE Aviation

Rich James

Systems Engineering SME and Deputy, Enterprise Platform, Innovation & Conformance Center (EPICC), US Army CPE Aviation / CE Solutions, Inc.

Andrew Kerbrat

Chief Systems Integration Officer, Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC), US Army

Kate Kovalovsky

Senior Director of MBSE Services, Strategic Technology Consulting

Rosemary Kramer

Principal Deployment Strategist, LMI

Ilya Lipkin

Steering Committee Chair, Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA), USAF Air Combat Command (ACC) FedLab

David Liu

Senior Materiel Leader for the Mission Systems Architecture and Systems Engineering Group, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Air Force Materiel Command

Wesley Low

Systems Engineer, PM UAS, CPE Aviation

Bob Matthews

Technical Fellow and Advanced Concepts Engineering Lead, L3Harris

William McCandless, Jr.

Systems Engineering Branch Chief, PM Fixed Wing, CPE Aviation

Jad Meouchy

CTO, BadVR, Inc.

Caroline Michael

Technical Director, Pratt Miller

Rachel Moudy

Senior Technical Advisor, Technology, KBR

David Murray

Vice President, Peerless Technologies Corporation

Nassib Nabaa

Sr. Principal Systems Engineer, SNC

Colonel Ryan C. Nesrsta

Project Manager, Utility Helicopters Project Office, Capability Program Executive Aviation, U.S. Army

Marcell Padilla

Senior Technical Architect, ACPE Aviation E&A/CRL Technologies, Inc.

Eugene Plotkin

Senior Project Leader, Aerospace Corporation

Rob Proctor

Staff Field Application Engineer, Real-Time Innovations

Nick Purvis

Sr Principal Systems Engineer, RTX

Travis Rapp

Senior Technical Program Manager, Rapid Innovation Team, Google Public Sector

Lloyd Reaves

Chief Engineer Emerging Technologies, L3 Harris Technologies, Inc.

Jose Recio

Assistant General Counsel, Collins Aerospace

Alexander Redei

Principal Software Engineer, SNC

Jullian Revell

DASO Lead Engineer, AFLCMC/EBZC

Ben Roth

Hypersonic Missile Hardware Chief Engineer, Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane

James A. Ruocco

Performing the duties of Assistant Secretary of War for Acquisition, Office of the Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment

Austin Schmitz

Systems Engineer, Canvas, Inc.

Christopher Schnelle

Staff Engineer, Southwest Research Institute

Ryan Scoble

Associate Director, Business Development for Army Rotary Wing Programs, Collins Aerospace

Robert Scout

Deputy Open Architecture Functional Lead / Avionics Architecture Team Deputy IPT Lead, NAVAIR/PMA-209

Jonathan Shaver

WOSA Program Manager, AFRL Air Warfare Directorate

Nikhil Shenoy

Founder and CEO, Colvin Run Networks

Eric Shull

Lead Systems Engineer, US Army - OCE - PAE Fires

Luis Simpson

Defense Technologies Associate, DAGER Technology

Matthew Sipe

Founder, Principal Consultant, To The King LLC

Ed Siu

Head of Strategic Alliances, Wind River X

Conrad Smith

General Manager - Electronic Warfare, AeroVironment

Shane Snyder

Cyber & RF Effects Branch Chief, Army’s C5ISR Center

Major Martin Span

Branch Chief Engineer, AFLCMC/EBZC

Jason Temple

Technical Director, Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Center (JEC), Joint Electromagnetic Warfare Center (JEWC)

Mr. Jason Thomas

Director of Systems Engineering, Department of the Navy, DASN RDT&E

Garrett Thurston

Principal Technical Fellow and Sr. Director of Services & Strategy, Dassault Systèmes

Joyce Tokar

Senior Engineering Fellow, Embedded Software Engineering, RTX

Jason Tominack

PMA-209 AAT Software Open Systems Engineer, NAVAIR PAE(Aviation)

Galen Valentine

Chief Architect for the MV-75 Cheyenne II program and Associate Tech Fellow for Systems Engineering, Bell Textron

Tom von Eschenbach

Senior VP, Growth Operations & GM Huntsville Site, Parry Labs

Aaron Walker

Founder and CEO, Vadum, Inc.

Dave Walsh

Chief Strategy Officer, Qualis

Scott Wigginton

Architecture Technical Area Lead, US Army, DEVCOM AvMC

Gregg Wildes

Defense and Aerospace Executive, DDC-I

George Winborne

Lead for Communications, Knowledge, and Performance Management, DoW Intellectual Property Cadre

Emory Winters

Chief Engineer, PM Apache, Development & Modernization Product Office

Senior Systems Engineer, Aspen Consulting Group

Co-Founder and CEO, Metavonics

Senior Embedded Engineer and Team Lead, DESE Research, Inc.

Sr. Engineering Manager Systems, SNC

Director and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for Data Rights, Lockheed Martin

Chief Architect, Electronic Warfare Division, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC)

Technical Account Manager, Lynx

Senior Software Systems Engineer, ITZ

Jammer Technique Optimization (JATO) National Lead, Navy’s PMA-234 Airborne Electronic Attack Systems