NDIA Emerging Technologies (ETI) Conference 2025 Submit Abstract

The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) welcomes your abstract submission for technical presentations and posters at the 2025 Emerging Technologies for Defense Conference.

The NDIA Emerging Technologies Conference will provide a unique forum for exploration of the new emerging technologies that will shape national security for the next century. The conference programming will focus on several of Department of Defense’s highest priority joint mission areas and highlight emerging technologies that are shaping the future of national defense, by gathering government, industry, and commercial experts to demonstrate and display the most innovative new technologies and discuss their defense implications. The conference will provide an opportunity for defense procurement officials to discuss their acquisition and contracting opportunities; discuss initiatives that will deliver new capabilities to operational forces rapidly and effectively; and for one-on-one engagements between industry and government.

Breakout sessions will discuss how emerging technologies, including those highlighted in DoD’s critical technology areas are being used to address some of the highest priority mission challenges facing the DoD today. Speakers from government, industry and academia will discuss how to create and deploy new capabilities at speed; address high priority joint warfighting challenges; and set the technical roadmap for investments in future technologies and capabilities.

Next-Gen Cyber Operations

Current and future operations and warfighting in multi-domain, fast-paced, and contested environments involving multitudes of adversary targets and friendly forces will require resilient networks and data flows. We invite researchers, industry experts, and practitioners to submit abstracts focusing on key areas shaping the future of cybersecurity within the Department of Defense. We welcome submissions on topics including emerging technologies and capabilities in development, the infrastructure needed to support next-generation cybersecurity operations, acquisition authority and its role in advancing cyber capabilities, and strategies for developing and strengthening the cyber workforce. Additionally, we seek insights on how to effectively implement these advances and explore innovative ways to leverage commercial technologies to support the development and deployment of secure cyber-physical systems across the DoD.

Allies & Partners

Allies and International Partners will play a pivotal role in developing and delivering future warfighting capabilities. Partnerships with Allied governments, industry, and universities are giving the US access to emerging technologies and innovations that are not available domestically. Coordination and partnership in the development of new capabilities ranging from communications to logistics and munitions also creates more robust and capable coalition forces.

This track invites submissions from both US and allied partner organizations in government, industry, and academia on activities that are introducing new innovative capabilities for coalition forces, demonstrate new ways to partner US and Allied research and development efforts, or better integrate allied supply chains to meet future coalition needs.

Game-Changing Emerging

Emerging technologies will shape the future of all national security activities in the future. Innovation ranging from basic research to prototyping, coming from university, defense, industry, and Allied sources are being harnessed to build the force of the future.

This track invites submissions from both US and allied partner organizations in government, industry, and academia on activities that are performing technical work to deliver new products, systems, and services to support future warfighting needs. These range from basic research to prototyping activities across the full spectrum of future conflict. The track also includes discussions on the innovative activities of key government, industry, and partner nation programs and initiatives that are supporting efforts to develop and deliver emerging technologies at speed and scale.

Data Analytics

This track invites submissions for presentations from government, defense and commercial industry, and academia on research, products, and services making use of AI software, autonomy, enterprise data, and analytics to deliver advanced defense capabilities, including addressing enterprise data connections and governance, deployment of AI, and software testing, evaluation, and validation, and other defense capabilities. Example technologies and capabilities include contested logistics, cloud, edge, and hybrid platform architecture, scalable AI architecture, and responsible AI.

Digital Engineering

The use and integration of digital models and underlying data to support the development, test and evaluation, and sustainment of a system to reinforce programs and systems for research and engineering operations and acquisition programs. Digital engineering will be critical to support acquisition and sustainment in an environment of increasing global challenges, complexity, dynamic threats, rapidly evolving technologies, supply chain instability, and increasing the life expectancy of current systems in operation.

This track invites submissions from both US and allied partner organizations in government, industry, and academia on activities that are introducing new innovative capabilities to take full advantage of computation, visualization, and collaboration to enable faster, smarter, data-driven decisions throughout the system life cycle.

Deadline for submissions: June 17, 2025

How to Submit

The submission for Abstracts are now closed!

Abstracts must be unclassified and cleared for public release.
Abstracts can be up to 3,000 characters in length.
Abstracts should fall into one of the following topic focus areas: Allies & Partners, Cyber 2.0, Game Changing Emerging Technologies, Data Analytics, and Digital Engineering.
Poster submissions should outline details of the proposed poster concerning ongoing or completed work.
Presentation submissions should focus on completed work that demonstrates high impact results for the community or discuss future efforts or anticipated new developments in order to foster more dynamic and interactive discussions and help generate visionary ideas and concepts.
All abstracts will be considered as a potential presentation or poster, unless the authors specify in their submission that they would like their abstract to ONLY be considered for a poster.

An automated confirmation will be sent upon submission. Notifications will be sent electronically by mid-July.

Please note: Submitting an abstract is a professional commitment. If the abstract is accepted, the Author commits to attend the event in-person and submit their presentations in a timely manner. Authors are responsible for obtaining appropriate public release for their presentations. Approved presentation authors will receive a discount code that will allow authors to register at a discounted rate for the entirety of the 2025 Emerging Technologies for Defense Conference & Exhibition.

Questions?

Contact Aaron Lopez at Alopez@NDIA.org with questions about your abstract submission.

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