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Analysing Autonomous Drone Racing's technology readiness for contemporary military operations - Keirin Joyce, Royal Australian Air Force
Altiro: A Resilient Software Backbone for Collaborative Autonomy in Contested Environments - Emma Bates, Cachai
Uninterrupted Autonomy: The Need for Network Redundancy and Resilience for Scalable Unmanned Operations - James Kubik, Somewear Labs
Wireless Power Beaming: Creating and Capturing New Competitive Advantage for Autonomy at Scale - Mike Hartnett, PowerLight Technologies
Beast in the Machine: How Robotics and AI Will Transform Warfare and the Future of Human Conflict - George Dougherty, Author
A Game-Changing Digital Manufacturing Platform for Defense and Aerospace - Sahil Desai, Divergent
Advanced Laser Manufacturing at Defense Scale - Adam Hicks, Air Force Research Laboratory
Building the Defense Workforce of the Future: Insights from Hybrid Electronics Talent Readiness - Mereb Hagos and Paul Liu, The Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness
Advancing Resilience Through Automated Manufacturing - Lloyd Rose and Richard McFarland, BioFabUSA
The Emerging Potential for Quantum Computing in National Security Applications - Paul Parazzoli, IBM
Quantum Enhanced Warfare and the Future of Defense - Zoe Mullins, Leidos
Edge Computing and Quantum-Secured Credential Generation - Abd'Malik Hakeem-Olowu, SE&M Solutions LLC
Shipcom Quantum Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance - SQC5ISR - Thomas Faulkner, Shipcom Federal Solutions, LLC
INDUS-X - Sameer Lalwani, Special Competitive Studies Project
Reimagining Warfare - lessons learned from the 12 days war and the role of AI - COL (Res.) Ryan Gity, Israel National Strategy and G2
Exportability Methodology and Analysis: Forming a Design Strategy with Exportability Considerations - Michael Schneider, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Electronic Warfare and Directed Energy Synergies for Countering UAS Threats - Dr. David Stoudt, Directed Energy Professional Society
Command, Control, Coexistence? Spectrum Sharing for Mission Success - Joe Kochan, National Spectrum Consortium
VLFtron™: Deployable Charged-Particle Beam Antenna for Global Subsurface Sensing and Low-Frequency Communications - Eric Enig, Enig Associates, Inc.
Scaling Smart Infrastructure: How 5G, AI, and Public-Private Innovation Are Transforming Communities and Defense - Nick Maynard, US Ignite
Wireless Power Beaming: Creating and Capturing New Competitive Advantage for Autonomy at Scale - Mike Hartnett, PowerLight Technologies
Novel Hydrated Complex Compound Phase Change Material (HCC-PCM) based Thermal Energy Storage System for Directed Energy Application - Isaac Mahderekal, Honeywell
Task, Workflow and System-level Opportunities for AI-based Tools to Support Defense Enterprise Efficiency - Zoe Szajnfarber, Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC)
Sustainable HMIF and Machine Risk Deployment and Management, Through Real Time Predictive Battlefield Health Readiness, Using Less Energy Consuming AI-Based Non-Large Language Auto Banding Models - Sergio Tuberquia, Equipcast
Brittle to Battle-Ready: Forging Trusted Artificial Intelligence (AI) with OptDef in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) Testing & Evaluation (T&E) Pipelines - Jose Ramirez, OptTek Systems, Inc.
Invisible Threats, Irreversible Consequences: Fortifying GenAI for Defense - Jeff Dobin, Dynamo AI
Tailorable Risk-Informed AI Test and Evaluation Strategy (TRAITES) Framework - Erin Lanus, Virginia Tech National Security Institute
Automation, Artifical Intelligence, and Autonomy for Emerging Defense Applications - Ravi Ravichandran, BAE Systems Intelligence & Security
Finding the Curious Incidents: A Language Modeling Approach to Maritime Anomaly Detection - Protima Banerjee, ASRC Federal
Strategic Radiation Hardening of Advanced Space Systems - Brian Munroe, Draper
Thermal Management & Anti-Static Materials for Mission-Critical Electronic Equipment - Whit Brown and Richard Wessel, DuPont Electronics
Architecting for Proliferation: A Data Layer Approach to Scalable Satellite Operations - Martin Slosarik, Picogrid
Deployment of a hybrid GEO/LEO solution as a Backup to GPS through PNT as a Service (PNTaaS) - Alison Brown, NAVSYS Corporation
Sustaining US Military Technological Advantage: Toward a Multi-Factorial Approach - James Giordano, National Defense University
A Secure and Supply Chain Resilient Meat Production Technology - Jonathan Lee, Fork & Good, Inc.
BioMADE: Pathways to Procurement for Industrial Biotechnology - Clem Fortman, BioMADE
Decentralized, energy-efficient, and easy-to-deploy food production system - Luke MacQueen, Tender Food
Autonomous Mission Operation System (AMOS): The Big Bang in Autonomous Systems Technologies, A Shift From Task-Executing Platforms To Mission-Executing Systems - Gabriel Schahor, Cassiopeia Aero-Technologies
From Data to Decision: Transforming T&E with Digital Engineering, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence - Laura Freeman, Virginia Tech National Security Institute
Transforming Defense IT Acquisition and Management (EO14222) - John Weiler, IT Acquisition Advisory Council
Be like Apple: What This Means for the DoD - James Sherbinin, Cadence Designs Systems
An Approach Using LLMs and NLP to Support Large Document Changes - Douglas Buettner, Acquisition Innovation Research Center
APQP Implementation to Facilitate Rapid Deployment of Emerging Technologies - Jeannette Jacques and Brian Adams, Raytheon
Using AI to tell the Story of DoD Spending-Scoring & Ranking RDT&E Technology Projects - Stephanie Hughes, North AI, LLC
Generative AI, Visualization, and the Future of Managing Megaprojects - Thomas McDermott, Systems Engineering Research Center
Next Generation PCIe Network Fabric for Simulators and High-Performance Computing - Charles Reynolds, Technical Systems Integrators
AI in Disguise: Unveiling Machine Learning Hidden in Binaries - Connor Forman, ObjectSecurity
From Silos to Synergy: A System-of-Systems Approach to Advancing the National Security Cyber Workforce - Payuna Uday, Systems Engineering Research Center
ATRIO MK II: Enabling Edge-Based Digital Forensics for Tactical Cyber Operations - Amy Quezada, ArcPoint Forensics
Building Capacity to Produce Talent Needed to Win - Karen Thornton, Acquisition Innovation Research Center
NextG RDT&E Testbed for Radar Co-existence and Non-Kinetic Effects - Sachin Shetty, Old Dominion University
Quantum Thin Film Lithium Niobate Photonics - Natalie Rozman, Leidos
Australia-U.S. Defence Innovation: Allied Technologies for a Complex World - Lincoln Parker, Defence Innovation Network (DIN)
Innovation Pathways at MDA: SBIR/STTR Programs - Candace Wright, Missile Defense Agency
The Path to a Program of Record - Jay Rozzi, Creare LLC
Fundamentally Shifting Defense Logistics and Operations with Transportable Nuclear Power - Igor Dubinsky, BWXT Advanced Technologies
The REGENT Seaglider: A Game-Changing Emerging Technology for Maritime Dominance - Tom Huntley, RegentCraft
The Age of Autonomous Materials Innovation - Joseph Krause, Radical AI
Environmental Monitoring of Missiles & High Value Assets Using the Raytheon System Health Monitor - Darciei Volk, RTX
Making Exploitation a Guessing Game: Dynamic Fragmented Address Space Layout Randomization (DFASLR) - Patrick Hong, RTX
The Evolving Future of OT Network Defense: Lessons from National Security - Dan O’Donohue, Owl Cyber Defense
Shipcom Quantum Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance - SQC5ISR - Vikram Chauhan, Shipcom Federal Solutions, LLC
Internet of Models: Creating a Level Digital Engineering Playing Field for the Defense Industrial Base - Chris Benson, Istari Digital
Model Based System Engineering enabling Counter-UAS - Thomas Konicki, Honeywell Aerospace Technologies
Accelerating Mission Engineering with a Digital Twin Command Center - Benjamin Bell, PBDC Federal Group
Unlocking Product Lifecycle Intelligence using Graph based Digital Thread and Generative AI - Vedanth Srinivasan, Amazon Web Services