BizConn Alliance 2026 – Business and Government Contracting Conference

A B2B event focused on aerospace and defense supply chains, manufacturing capabilities, services, and technologies. Suppliers, service providers, engineering, supply chain, procurement, and product development teams connect through pre-arranged one-to-one meetings; attendance is reserved for vetted professionals. The first day features presentations by executives and leaders covering commercial and military programs at Collins, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Topics include market-segment trends, challenges and opportunities, supplier expectations, manufacturing automation, and information integration.

The 2026 conference marks NTSA’s 60th anniversary and centers on the U.S. Army lead-service theme, “Beyond the Battlefield: Training Readiness and Lethality for All-Domain Dominance!” The program combines executive presentations, technical papers, tutorials, professional development workshops, special events, and Next Big Thing talks focused on modeling, simulation, training, education, AI, autonomous systems, synthetic environments, operational test and evaluation, acquisition modernization, digital engineering, digital twins, cyber and information warfare, and the defense industrial base. Featured content includes an Industry Keynote by Brandon Tseng, President & Co-Founder, Shield AI; a Featured Government Keynote by Amy Henninger, SES, Ph.D., Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), DoW; and senior-leader discussions involving LTGEN Austin, USMC; MAJ GEN Cropsey, USAF; and MAJ GEN Smith, USSF. Special events include the Congressional M&S Caucus; Digital First discussions on defense acquisition through AI, digital engineering, simulation, and digital twins; Building an AI Ready Military Force; a Naval Aviation Flag Officer Panel; NATO mission-space digital twins; Air Force maintenance training; cyber, electromagnetic, wargaming, and information warfare; and program briefs on training acquisition and the All-Domain Marine. The program also includes perspectives from government, industry, academia, and international partners.

The conference focuses on translating congressional mandates in the National Defense Authorization Act into industry responses and aligning industry capacity and capability with Navy construction plans, status, and priorities. Its agenda covers U.S. naval and maritime policy; Navy priorities for SDF investments in the MIB/SIB; the state of the public shipyards; the Ford Class Aircraft Carrier Program; shipyard procurement needs; and AUKUS. A lunch presentation is titled “Global Risk Assessment.”

The conference addresses legal and regulatory challenges for manufacturers, with sessions on tariffs, trade policy, U.S. Customs and Border Protection enforcement, supply chains, labor and employment policy, and generative AI intellectual property issues including training data, copyright, ownership and licensing. Other sessions examine Suncor Energy v. Boulder and Supreme Court decisions affecting manufacturers; coordination of litigation defense with regulatory compliance and enforcement; professional responsibility, ethics and AI governance across legal and manufacturing functions; PFAS regulations and litigation; local-government lawsuits targeting manufacturers and products; and emergency-response practices covering evidence preservation, site control, internal investigations, liability management, stakeholder communications and reputational protection. The program offers CLE-accredited educational content. Registration is reserved for in-house manufacturing counsel.

The forum focuses on the Army Aviation Roadmap and the industrial base, sustainment, and acquisition. Its program includes discussion of Army transformation and the organic industrial base, with opportunities for briefings involving project managers, Army aviation transformation and future-capability leaders, original equipment manufacturers, and other industry leaders. Professional sessions address the industrial base, the Army Aviation Roadmap, sustainment and the organic industrial base, acquisition, integration of the Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Maneuver Air portfolio, force modernization, the operating environment, the Pentagon landscape, and future warfighting concepts. Exhibit-hall open-mic panels cover cargo; attack and reconnaissance; utility aircraft; uncrewed aircraft systems; next-generation command and control; AMCOM sustainment; counter-drone systems; aviation mission systems and architecture; tactical aviation and ground munitions; and MV-75 Cheyenne opportunities.

SpaceCom, in collaboration with NASA, brings together government priorities, commercial capability, and industry innovation around procurement, investment, partnerships, business development, and technology commercialization. The program is organized across the SpaceCom: Keynotes, ADVANCE, DISCOVER, EXPLORE, INNOVATE, and TINA Talks streams. Topics include Artemis cadence and architecture; launch logistics and high-cadence access to space; commercial-government co-investment; commercial space stations; spacecraft servicing and lifecycle economics; supply-chain, manufacturing, and infrastructure bottlenecks; workforce and industrial execution; nuclear power and propulsion; cislunar mobility; international partnerships; space traffic management; cybersecurity; AI-enabled mission control; orbital manufacturing and repair; lunar resource utilization; space-resource law; and intellectual-property rights for space-based innovations. Named sessions include “SpaceCom Day 1 Opening Keynotes,” “Invite-Only Executive Forum: From Orbit to Outcome: Why Space Has Become Enterprise Infrastructure,” “Launch Is Logistics: Scaling High-Cadence Access to Space,” “Commercial-Government Co-Investment: How Space Infrastructure Gets Funded,” “Moon Joy! Lessons from the Artemis II Journey,” “The Case for Commercial Space Stations: Innovation Needs Customers,” “Service, Refuel, or Replace? The New Economics of Spacecraft Lifecycles,” “Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Hidden Infrastructure Bottlenecks,” “Policy, Law, and Governance for the New Space Age,” “Powering the Next Frontier: Nuclear Power and Propulsion,” “Mission Control, Rewritten: When AI Agents Move from Advice to Action,” and “Building the Moon Base.”

Programming topics include permitting and regulatory pathways, federal policy updates, development on federal lands, environmental permitting and agency consultation, state and regional policy trends, and state and local policy barriers. Technical and applied topics include AI, GIS and outreach tools; agrivoltaics and solar on agricultural lands; land-use and conversion impacts; soil health, stormwater and SWPPP; vegetative screening and habitat; end-of-life, recycling and circularity; repowering existing projects; FAA, DoD and DOT updates; transmission siting and permitting; and energy storage siting and compliance. Community engagement topics include pre-project engagement, building engagement programs, coalition building and local approvals, listening to local leaders, model ordinances and decision-making tools, community benefits and financial support models, responding to moratoria and restrictive zoning, measuring community acceptance, misinformation and public perception, and clean-energy and data-center partnerships. The case-study showcase covers project development journeys, ownership and lifecycle transitions, responsible development, permit-compliance success stories, and emerging research and technologies. The conference is co-located with ACP PEAK, with distinct programming for each conference.

SpaceCom, in collaboration with NASA, focuses on commercialization, procurement, investment, partnerships, and business growth across the space economy. Its tracks cover infrastructure, manufacturing, mobility, market demand, investment trends, procurement priorities, lunar and cislunar initiatives, emerging technologies, commercial low Earth orbit destinations, AI, and autonomy. Program themes include Artemis cadence and architecture, supply-chain readiness, workforce and industrial execution, lunar infrastructure, robotics, human systems, commercial space stations, nuclear power and propulsion, science missions, orbital manufacturing, and space traffic management. Sessions address space-infrastructure co-investment, manufacturing bottlenecks, commercial procurement and scale, policy and governance, spacecraft servicing, cybersecurity, AI-enabled operations, lunar resource systems, and commercial investment. Headline keynotes include invited NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and retired NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson.

The conference theme is “Going Critical: Creating a Durable Nuclear Resurgence.” Plenary discussions address how technology, finance, and public policy can sustain nuclear energy momentum, and how public confidence, domestic supply chains, workforce development, investment, and state leadership can support deployment at scale. John Wagner, Laboratory Director at INL, is a featured speaker; the opening plenary also includes U.S. NRC Commissioners Douglas Weaver and Bradley Crowell. The technical program features expert-led presentations and peer-reviewed research on advanced reactors, fuel cycle and waste management, reactor physics, fusion, AI and machine learning, materials science, instrumentation and controls, criticality safety, and robotics. Named session topics include nuclear energy markets, financing and economics; hybrid and integrated energy systems; maritime and data center applications; nuclear safeguards; cybersecurity; molten salt reactor fuels and materials; and advanced/additive manufacturing. Panels address uranium mining remediation, environmental review, digital twins, advanced reactor fuel supply and fabrication, and nuclear deployment pathways.