Oct 18-19, 2021

DoD & Government Keynote Speakers

Michael White, Principal Director Hypersonics Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Research and Engineering Modernization

Dr. Larry Wortzel, Senior Fellow in Asian Security at the American Foreign Policy Council

Robert Taylor, SES, J8 Director, Capability and Resource Integration USSTRATCOM

Dr. Gillian Bussey Inaugural Director, Joint Hypersonics, Transition Office (JHTO), Office of the Undersecretary of Defense, Research, and Engineering, Advanced Capabilities, OUSDRE

Walter Chai, Director of Space Sensors and Director, Missile Integration & Operations Center Missile Defense Agency (MDA)

Tom Karako, Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Director, Missile Defense Project, Center for Strategic Studies

Rex Jordan, Senior Vice President and INDOPACIFIC Global Enterprise Leader, Booz Allen Hamilton

Dr. Douglas Blake, SES, Head, Aviation Force Projection and Integrated Defense Department ONR

Dr. Iain Boyd, Professor of Aerospace Engineering Science, Faculty Director for National Security, Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences College of Engineering and Applied Science

Dr. Scott A. Morton, Associate Director for CREATE DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program, Information Technology Laboratory, US Army Engineering Research and Development Center

Dr. Rodney Bowersox, Director, Texas A&M National, Aerothermochemistry and Hypersonics Laboratory

Dennis Helmich, Director of Integrated Military, Systems Sandia National Laboratories

Dr. Sarah Popkin, Program Officer for High Speed Aerodynamics, Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Dmitry Turbiner, Founder & CEO General Radar Corporation

Chuck Leonard, Project Manager, Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, NASA

Jon Ludwigson, Director, Contracting and National Security Acquisition, Government Accountability Office

Tony Clarke, Director, Business Development, MOOG Space and Defense Group

Dr. Jeffery Dickeson, Technical Director, Hypersonics Campaign and Advanced Offensive, Hypersonic Weapons, Raytheon Missiles & Defense

Professor Jesse Little, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Professor Erica Corral, The University of AZ, Craig M. Berge, College of Engineering

Military Hypersonic Weapons Systems
(Defense – Government – Industry – Opportunities)

About the Program

Hypersonic Weapons are accelerating the pace at DoD for the evaluation of potential weapon system concepts and mission sets. As DoD is preparing for $10 billion to enable fielding of Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGV) within the next five years, this has created a surge of a rapid R&D for Hypersonic Technologies. Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGV) are launched from a rocket before gliding to a target and alternatively, Hypersonic cruise missiles are powered by high-speed, air-breathing engines, or commonly referred to as “scramjets,” after acquiring their target.

Opportunities for Industry:

Evaluation of the U.S. hypersonic test and evaluation infrastructure, the Institute for Defense Analyses noted that “no current U.S. facility can provide full-scale, time-dependent, coupled aerodynamic and thermal-loading environments for flight durations necessary to evaluate these characteristics above Mach 8.” Unlike programs in China and Russia, most U.S. hypersonic weapons are to be conventionally armed. As a result, U.S. hypersonic weapons will likely require greater accuracy and will be more technically challenging to develop than nuclear-armed Chinese and Russian systems. There are many technical challenges to overcome, Hypersonic weapons could challenge detection and defense due to their speed, maneuverability, and low altitude of flight. For example, terrestrial-based radar cannot detect hypersonic weapons until late in the weapon’s flight.

A transition to a new warfighting doctrine with multi-domain ops as it was initially defined through the Army, will now change how the joint force must approach the long-range strike missions. While industry has developed warheads, glide bodies and other components, there is no industrial base equipped to manufacture hypersonic weapons. “As hypersonic missiles become a reality, industry is going to have to relearn how to effectively, efficiently and economically produce them while industry has developed warheads, glide bodies and other components, there is no industrial base equipped to manufacture hypersonic weapons.”

– Michael Griffin, Pentagon’s Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

Program Themes Include:

DoD Hypersonic Systems: Programs and Emerging Capabilities and Opportunities for Industry
Space Based Hypersonic Tracking Sensors & Ground Based Interceptor Capabilities and Requirements
Ground Launched/Ground Based Strategic Deterrents
Advancements in Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGV) & Long Range SCRAMJET Missile Technologies
Hypersonic Defense Modular System Architecture and Industrial Engineering Challenges
Position, Navigation (PNT) Needs & Requirements
AI and Machine Learning: Needs, Requirements and Future Potential Capabilities
Fielding and Testing of Hypersonic: Plans and Strategies

Why attend:

Attending this Program will provide each virtual attendee the opportunity to obtain invaluable information on the emerging opportunities within DoD, Government and Industry Markets found nowhere else in an intimate live virtual setting. Each Hypersonic Weapon Systems program representatives will closely examine emerging technologies and present in 30-minute sessions over three days while also thoughtfully interacting with attendees during their dedicated Q&A sessions.