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This District of Columbia manufacturing calendar features conferences, expositions, policy symposia, and industry-focused meetings in Washington, DC. The sample includes gatherings for defense and military communities, uncrewed vehicle and advanced air mobility professionals, satellite and space-sector participants, technology and innovation policy specialists, and biotechnology stakeholders.
Recurring themes include defense manufacturing and national security, drone and AAM policy, military equipment and technology, satellite communications and space systems, biopharmaceutical competitiveness, and economic power. The events bring together industry representatives, government and policy audiences, researchers, and professional associations for discussions, exhibitions, and annual meetings.
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Association of the United States Army (AUSA) · Washington, D.C. · Hybrid
Aerospace & Defense · Heavy Machinery & Equipment · Robotics & AutomationTheme: America's Army: The Foundation of the Joint Force. The event combines a land-power exposition with professional development forums connecting military leaders, industry innovators, policymakers, and international delegations. The program includes an Opening Ceremony; Dwight D. Eisenhower Luncheon; Secretary of the Army Panel; Contemporary Military Forums on Hemispheric Defense in Depth, Foundational Readiness, The Future of Fires—Accelerating Long-Range Precision and Mass for the Joint Force, Integrated Autonomy into Warfighting, and Decisive Landpower—Deterrence and Partner Integration Against the Pacing Threat; and Accelerating the Arsenal: Transforming Munitions Production and Partnerships for the Future Force. Additional programming covers AI-enabled cyber defense and critical infrastructure resilience, directed energy, data-centric multi-domain operations, advanced manufacturing, allied data standards and procurement convergence for theater air and missile defense, energy resilience, supply-chain risk management, acquisition reform, aviation manned-unmanned teaming, launched effects, operational fires, U.S. defense-market opportunities in Estonia, Latvia, and the Netherlands, Army xTech and PIT innovation, small-business matchmaking, and Warfighter and Family Forums. Access is intended for registrants with an identifiable relationship to AUSA, the Armed Forces, government, exhibiting or partner organizations, designated military or veteran associations, media, or certain public-safety agencies.
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AUVSI Defense
NotableAUVSI (Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International) / XPONENTIAL · Washington, D.C.
Aerospace & Defense · Robotics & AutomationAUVSI Defense focuses on trusted U.S. technology and manufacturing capacity for military capabilities in uncrewed and unmanned systems, robotics, AI, and autonomy. Core themes include multi-domain technology integration, manufacturing and supply-chain capacity, acquisition reform, procurement and funding, workforce development, counter-UAS, domestic industrial-base expansion, and autonomous systems deployment. Program topics include the new autonomy command structure, prototype-to-program-of-record pathways, autonomous warfare strategy, defense investment intelligence, acquisition reform, small-business pathways, foreign defense markets, export controls, supply-chain resilience, manufacturing capacity, defense-autonomy company value, and attritable autonomy.
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Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) · Washington, D.C.
Aerospace & Defense · Pharmaceuticals · Robotics & AutomationA policy conference based on ITIF’s 18-month research effort on national power industries and China’s techno-economic-trade challenge. The agenda examines China’s industrial scale and competitiveness; emerging techno-industrial threats in biopharmaceuticals, commercial aviation, robotics, and other advanced industries; political barriers to long-term domestic investment; and the case for national economic power capitalism. Sessions address structural reforms to U.S. science and innovation funding; strategic trade partnerships involving joint R&D, coordinated export and import controls, and commercial intelligence sharing; an institutional framework for national techno-economic and trade policy; and lessons from post-1948 U.S. mobilization for building a durable national techno-economic strategy. Additional themes include federal R&D decision-making, research security, technical standards, strategic industry measurement, congressional and White House coordination, and a lead agency for national strategy.
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