Date & Time
6:30pm EST - 8:00pm EST
About This Event
Defense Innovation in the 21st Century
Flat budgets. Faster threats. Who wins the race to field what's next?
Hypersonic weapons, autonomous systems, and directed energy are changing how wars are fought and how they're deterred. Budgets aren't keeping up, and the competition isn't waiting. How does America keep its technological and military edge against a peer competitor when capability has to move faster than the acquisition system was built to go?
Join the World Affairs Council of Hampton Roads for an evening with Richard "Otter" Bew, Chief of Staff at Lockheed Martin Corporation. He'll give an insider's view of where private capital, commercial innovation, and allied supply chains meet. He'll also cover what has to change to move from program-centered development to mission-focused capability, and what it will take for the industrial base to deliver at speed and scale.
Whether you work in the defense sector or just follow how national security gets built, this conversation will change how you read the headlines.
Thursday, December 10 6:30-8:00
MacArthur Memorial Auditorium
Stay for a no-host social afterward, a short walk from the Memorial.
About This Event
Defense Innovation in the 21st Century
Flat budgets. Faster threats. Who wins the race to field what's next?
Hypersonic weapons, autonomous systems, and directed energy are changing how wars are fought and how they're deterred. Budgets aren't keeping up, and the competition isn't waiting. How does America keep its technological and military edge against a peer competitor when capability has to move faster than the acquisition system was built to go?
Join the World Affairs Council of Hampton Roads for an evening with Richard "Otter" Bew, Chief of Staff at Lockheed Martin Corporation. He'll give an insider's view of where private capital, commercial innovation, and allied supply chains meet. He'll also cover what has to change to move from program-centered development to mission-focused capability, and what it will take for the industrial base to deliver at speed and scale.
Whether you work in the defense sector or just follow how national security gets built, this conversation will change how you read the headlines.
Thursday, December 10 6:30-8:00
MacArthur Memorial Auditorium
Stay for a no-host social afterward, a short walk from the Memorial.
Date & Time
6:30pm EST - 8:00pm EST