WEST 2028

The conference theme is “Generating Combat Power Across Multiple Global Maritime Fronts.” Topics include evolving threats facing the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard; maritime operations; platforms, technologies, and advanced capabilities; and enhancing operational capabilities. The event brings together military and government leaders, industry professionals, and experts from academia for discussions, keynotes, panels, and special presentations. The 2027 agenda and speaker lineup were not available on the event pages reviewed.

A military equipment, systems, services, and technology exposition focused on Marines and the Marine Corps. The event features defense-industry exhibits, presentations from Marines and Department of War personnel, and the OBJ1 Wargaming Convention. Attendance is restricted to eligible military, government, defense-industry, and related groups; it is not open to the general public. The 2027 schedule and speakers have not been finalized.

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.”

An Indo-Pacific professional-development forum bringing together military leaders, government officials, industry partners, and regional allies. Discussions focus on landpower, regional security, readiness, transformation, and integrated operations across the Indo-Pacific. The exposition focuses on emerging technologies and capabilities and organizations supporting land forces.

Forum for networking and learning in the undersea warfare community, focused on requirements and developments in undersea warfare, including countering submarine and mine threats and power projection from the sea. The event is classified at the SECRET level.

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 conference brings together offshore energy, maritime, defense, and technology industries around shared infrastructure, capabilities, and supply chains. Its preliminary program will examine offshore energy and autonomous systems, ports and vessels, subsea infrastructure, and maritime security, alongside market developments and opportunities for established companies to apply their expertise across emerging ocean technology markets. Related sectors include offshore wind, shipbuilding, manufacturing, engineering, marine robotics, grid innovation, and advanced manufacturing. The agenda is in development, with additional sessions and speakers to be announced.

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.

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.