Ben Matthews

The program brings federal agency leaders, prime contractors, small businesses, and industry partners together around federal acquisition, project delivery, and mission-critical infrastructure. The opening Executive Leaders Panel covers agency operational priorities and planned investments in facilities, infrastructure, systems, and technology. Sessions address federal contracting and agency business opportunities; SBA size standards; FAR changes; DOD acquisition strategies, including other transactions; mentor-protégé joint ventures; subcontracting compliance; and the industrialized construction program. Infrastructure and engineering topics include advanced nuclear deployment, MILCON delivery methods, ICBM modernization, federal healthcare facilities, naval construction, energy programs, and environmental projects. Other sessions cover AI in federal contracting and A/E/C firms, cybersecurity requirements, knowledge management, financial literacy for government contractors, and the federal industrial base. Featured agency opportunity sessions include USACE, NAVFAC, GSA, VA, NASA, the Department of State, Sandia National Laboratories, and the Air Force. Headline speakers include Lt. Gen. William (Butch) H. Graham, U.S. Army Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Rear Adm. Jeff Kilian, Commander of Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command and Chief of Civil Engineers; and Ryan Lambert, Associate Administrator of the SBA Office of Industrial Base Resilience & Contracting.