How does Texas innovation fit within larger, national defense missions?

At the 23rd Annual Science & Engineering Technology Conference, Dr. Arun Seraphin is joined by Drew Scheberle (Executive Director of the National Security Innovation Council) and Jim Perschbach (President & CEO at Port San Antonio) to learn more about Texas' contribution to the defense industrial base.

The Honorable Heidi Shyu, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering joins Dr. Arun Seraphin for a discussion on the upcoming Emerging Technologies for Defense Conference & Exhibition. The Conference will bring S&T leaders from government, industry, and academia to focus on three specific mission areas: Contested Logistics, Counter-UAS, and Operational Energy. During this episode, Ms. Shyu explains why each mission area is critical for DoD and what she hopes to see from defense and commercial industry as well as universities. 

Conference website: https://www.ndiatechexpo.org/

How can DoD modernize software for defense missions? What came out of NDIA ETI and the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute's workshop?

Listen in as Dr. Arun Seraphin and Dr. Forrest Shull discusses software acquisitions and the role of software for DoD. Also, be sure to check out NDIA ETI and CMU SEI's report, "Coding the Future: Recommendations for Defense Software R&D".

How can Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) support DoD and defense industry workforce needs? How have students from MSIs contributed to defense missions? Why is bringing more MSI STEM students into DoD and the defense industry such a critical focus?

This year’s conference brought Industry together with the Department of Defense Research, Engineering, Acquisition, and Sustainment communities to examine the investment priorities and challenges across the OSD, Components, Agencies and Combatant Commands, including top-level strategy updates from Component and COCOM S&T leadership. Special featured topics for this year will include the S&T needs of the HA/DR mission as well as success stories from the SBIR program.

Join Dr. Arun Seraphin and James Chew, NDIA's S&ET Chair and Senior Global Group Director of Aerospace and Defense at Cadence Design Systems to learn more about what the conference's priorities were.

Join us for a conversation with Jacob Winn, ETI Associate Research Fellow. This episode discusses a brand new ETI report on changes over time in the Department of Defense's "Science & Technology" portfolio, which is the money that the Pentagon uses to invest in the technologies of the future. We talk about how the military has funded science in the past, and how the funding is changing now.

Learn more of what was discussed in this episode in ETI's newest white paper here:

Join us for a conversation with NDIA’s new Executive Vice President, Brigadier General (Ret.) Guy Walsh. The podcast focuses on the University of Texas San Antonio’s National Security Collaboration Center (NSCC), which advances research, education and workforce development in cybersecurity, data analytics and cloud computing. The discussion wraps up with Guy Walsh reflecting on previous experience with NDIA, which led him to join the team.

Glass is one of the oldest technologies in history. Is there any room for improvement? Is our defense industrial base healthy enough to manufacture and produce in advance materials in mass? What should the DOD do to support it? What are the manufacturing challenges and opportunities related to on-shoring of glass production and processing? How can the DOD assist contractors to improve production? Check out the episode to learn more.

Are U.S. supply chains capable of bearing the burden of expanded hypersonics production? How do supply chain vulnerabilities affect U.S. national security? What can be done to secure the critical supply chains of the future?

In this podcast, lead author Rebecca Wostenberg, ETI Research Fellow, provides an overview of the first report of ETI’s Emerging Technologies Supply Chain Study, Hypersonics Supply Chains: Securing the Path to the Future. The report assesses the state of hypersonics supply chains and provides policy recommendations – to both government and industry – for their development, health, and resilience. Key categories discussed are critical materials and goods, manufacturing base and workforce, supply chain security, and international partnerships. 

Access the report here: NDIA.org/hypersonics

This webinar is presented by SCHOTT. SCHOTT is a leading global manufacturer of specialty glass, glass-ceramics, and finished optics. With over 50 years of operation in the United States, SCHOTT North America employs over 1,000 people across 7 facilities, including our R&D Center in Duryea, PA., providing decades of support to multiple DoD programs and mission critical development efforts.

Are commerically dervied technologies superior to the governemnt's systems? Are they inferior?

How does the government's data management fare against the commericial sector? What can the private sector teach the governement. Which practices should the DOD adopt?

Join us in this week's episode of Emerging Tech Horizons with Dr. Mark Lewis and Collin Carroll, Head of Federal and Defense Business at Applied Intuition as they discuss the private sector's and government's ability to manage it's data.

This webinar is presented by SCHOTT. SCHOTT is a leading global manufacturer of specialty glass, glass-ceramics, and finished optics. With over 50 years of operation in the United States, SCHOTT North America employs over 1,000 people across 7 facilities, including our R&D Center in Duryea, PA., providing decades of support to multiple DoD programs and mission critical development efforts. https://www.schott.com/en-us/about-us/company/research-and-development.