Cyber Warfare Division Executive Forum

AOC’s mission-critical summits bring together active-duty military, government leaders, industry partners, and academia to address challenges facing warfighters. Subject-matter experts represent electronic warfare, electromagnetic spectrum operations, and information operations disciplines.

The summit addresses force-level electronic warfare and electromagnetic spectrum operations capabilities across the services. Panels and keynotes will cover requirements and technologies vital to joint warfighting and electromagnetic spectrum advantage. Department of Defense leaders will discuss the roles of EW and EMSO in JADC2, joint long-range fires, and information advantage, with emphasis on artificial intelligence and machine learning to close gaps in joint capabilities. The summit is classified US Secret and TS/SCI.

Focuses on the pending delivery of capabilities in support of multi-domain operations (MDO) under large-scale combat operations (LSCO) conditions, remaining research needs to address future threats, and equipping the Army of 2040 with advanced electromagnetic warfare, cyber, signals intelligence, information operations, and other forms of non-kinetic fires to dominate the electromagnetic spectrum. Sessions are classified US Secret.

Focuses on moving Indo-Pacific strategy into implementation through operational readiness, deterrence, forward force posture, alliances and partnerships, defense industrial capacity, and regional economic resilience. Themes include delivering combat power forward through speed, scale, and sustainment; coalition integration and networked deterrence; mobilizing industrial capacity; decision advantage through AI, data, and the information domain; and securing supply chains and strategic resources. Discussion topics include distributed logistics and sustainment, forward maintenance and repair, space-enabled sensing and missile defense, information-sharing and interoperability, integration of Pacific Island nations, production and repair acceleration, acquisition and contracting authorities, allied industrial capacity, private investment, operational uses of AI and data, and manufacturing and energy investments that reduce strategic vulnerabilities. The forum emphasizes operational examples, identifying barriers to execution, connecting industry and venture capital with government needs, and developing actionable recommendations for policymakers, planners, and industry.

Discussion covers evolving industrial base cyber challenges, standards validation at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, supply-chain risk management, changes to the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), and False Claims Act legal risks in cyber assurance.

The program aligns U.S. military priorities, executive-order implementation, congressional funding, acquisition pathways, industrial-base capacity, and operational requirements for uncrewed systems. Sessions address defense acquisition reform; FY27 funding and investment signals; the Drone Dominance Program; domestic manufacturing capacity and supply-chain resilience; small-business pathways into defense markets; and export markets, financing, and export controls. Other themes include Army and Air Force autonomy fielding, congressional oversight, lessons from Ukraine, maritime security, undersea infrastructure, and scaling uncrewed surface and undersea systems. The program identifies Executive Orders 14265, 14268, 14307, 14372, and 14415 among the policy frameworks discussed. Featured speakers include Admiral Thomas Allan, Jr., Vice Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard; William Kimmitt, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; and Emil Michael, Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering and Department of War Chief Technology Officer. Registration is restricted to U.S. citizens and citizens of allied or partner nations; the event is closed to media.

The conference examines U.S. competition with China across advanced industries and the policy changes ITIF says are needed to protect U.S. technological leadership, economic strength, and national security. Sessions address China’s industrial and geopolitical position; emerging techno-industrial challenges in biopharmaceuticals, commercial aviation, and robotics; and obstacles to long-term investment in strategic industries. Other discussions consider political momentum for a comprehensive response, structural changes to federal science and innovation funding, strategic trade partnerships involving joint R&D and coordinated export and import controls, the War Department’s role in economic statecraft, and lessons from the post-1948 national security establishment.

A professional development event for the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, and the aerospace and defense industry, focused on critical concerns and challenges of joint warfare. The symposium draws speakers from the Air Force, Space Force, combatant commands, industry, and the joint force, and includes dynamic exhibits. A 2027 agenda and named speakers were not listed on the event pages reviewed.

The meeting brings together leaders from the Department of War, industry, manufacturing institutes, and academia to address the future of American defense manufacturing. Program themes include industrial surge and production capacity, supply-chain resilience, advanced manufacturing, manufacturing modernization, and priorities for strengthening the Defense Industrial Base. The format includes high-level briefings, panel discussions, and fireside chats with senior leaders.