EW Capabilities & Gaps 2027

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.

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.

Theme: EMS Superiority – Challenges and Opportunities Across the Globe. The convention addresses the evolving landscape of electromagnetic warfare and electromagnetic spectrum operations, including the policies, partnerships, and technologies needed to achieve superiority in a contested and congested domain. Programming includes keynote presentations from senior military commanders and industry thought leaders; technical sessions on electromagnetic warfare, cyber operations, and spectrum dominance; interactive breakouts; expert-led panel discussions; and program manager briefings specific to the Navy, Army, and Air Force. The expo hall features technologies and solutions from defense contractors, emerging technology companies, and research institutions.

Theme: “Shared Deterrence: Delivering Asymmetric Depth through Collaborative Autonomy.” The symposium focuses on using autonomous systems as sensory and jamming nodes to extend electronic warfare effects into the battlespace, reduce physical risk to warfighters, preserve kinetic magazines, and strengthen spectrum dominance. Topics include collaborative autonomy and uncrewed delivery; next-generation EW payloads and cognitive algorithms; open architecture and coalition interoperability; and deploying non-kinetic capabilities through integration and interoperability. The AOC and Mugu Crows Chapter hold the symposium under a co-sponsorship agreement with NAWCWD. Sessions require security clearance: the first two days are US Secret, releasable to Australia and the United Kingdom; the final day is US Secret only. Attendance is open to appropriately cleared citizens of the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

Sessions are classified TS//SCI.

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 summit gathers Air Force and Space Force modeling, simulation, and analytics experts to learn about new initiatives and techniques and consider how modeling and simulation can move more training from the real world to digital. It provides a forum for shared information and connection across military services, the Department of War, industry, academia, and international partners. Focus areas include AI, machine learning and cloud; augmented, mixed, extended and virtual reality; analytics; digital engineering; healthcare simulations; joint coalition; multi-domain environments; and test evaluation and experimentation. Panel themes include senior leadership, Digital Space Range, NCO, Resilient, Ready & Responsive Airmen and Guardians, and Partner to Win. The summit also includes an industry exhibition and classified briefings.

The program examines the industrialization of cyber capabilities, military installations as warfighting platforms, privateering in the cyber domain, and U.S. Fleet Cyber Command’s focus, priorities, and capabilities. It also addresses cyber warfare innovation, operational readiness, emerging technologies, and partnerships supporting national cyber advantage.

The program focuses on weapon-system maintenance and sustainment, readiness, and defense industrial base revitalization. Plenary and breakout sessions examine acquisition authorities and faster capability delivery; domestic manufacturing, industrial-base investment, and workforce capacity; contested logistics and forward maintenance; munitions lifecycle management; resilient supply chains; and the application of AI, advanced manufacturing, software, and digital engineering to sustainment. Specific discussions include the Portfolio Acquisition Executive authorities under the Warfighting Acquisition System; the Major Weapon Systems and Critical Munitions Readiness Campaign Plan; EO 14415 supply-chain mapping and illumination; and public-private co-production, technical data and right to repair, intellectual property, and capital requirements for industrial-base expansion. The Weapon Systems Software Summit covers applied AI and autonomous systems, DevSecOps and software factories, cybersecurity and Zero Trust, digital engineering, data and cloud architecture, acquisition policy, and workforce and talent management. Associated forums address corrosion prevention, provisioning and cataloging, defense working-capital funds, depot capabilities, allied co-sustainment, and supply-chain risk management. The program also includes a Maintenance Innovation Challenge and a co-located Maintenance and Logistics Exhibition with a Maintenance Yard.