The NDIA Hackathon provides clarity and direction for the defense industrial base by flattening communication between warfighters and the engineers empowering them with tomorrow’s defense tech. For over 100 years NDIA has provided an ethical forum for communication between the Department of Defense and the Defense Industrial Base. Now, NDIA is teaming up with George Mason University to host a Defense Technologies Hackathon for Industry and Service Members, creating an event ‘hub’ in Washington DC. The design extends invitations to defense partners, DOD components, and combatant commands across the globe to allow remote participation, literally ensuring that the sun will never set on American Ingenuity.

What/When/Where:

August 25-29th NDIA and George Mason University will host a hackathon in conjunction with the NDIA Emerging Technologies in Defense Conference. The event will kick off at the GMU FUSE Building, and transition to the Emerging Technology in Defense Conference at the Washington Convention Center later in the week. During the week combatant commands will be hosting simultaneous outstation hackathons across the globe, linking the collaboration at the unclassified level and creating a global web of defense innovation.