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Wright Dialogue with Industry (WDI)

We are excited to announce that in 2022, Air Force Research Lab’s (AFRL) Wright Dialogue with Industry (WDI) and Life Cycle Management Center's (LCMC) Life Cycle Industry Days (LCID) will take place within the same week (8-12 August). Both events will be co-hosted with Dayton Defense and both events will be hosted at the Dayton Convention Center. LCID and WDI will remain standalone events; we are combining the events in one week as to gain efficiencies in the sharing of information, collaboration and discussion.

Weapons Pitch Day 2022

The Doolittle Institute is excited to host Weapons Pitch Day 2022.

This year, the U.S. Air Force Armament Directorate’s third Pitch Day will be awarding $30M in funding to multiple small business innovators, with individual contracts valued at up to $1.8M each. This event will feature the top small business innovators pitching the Directorate early-stage, ‘low-maturity’ ideas – focused on our Six Innovation Targets.

Defense Entrepreneurial Symposium

Early-stage ventures, start-ups, entrepreneurs, and investors interested in doing business with the Department of Defense (DoD) are invited to the Defense Entrepreneur Symposium on August 11, 2022.

Attendees will increase their understanding of defense venture development and the opportunity for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contracts which provide millions of dollars of non-dilutive funding to early-stage ventures every year and are a key way to expand into the defense market.

AF CyberWorx 17x Project

AF CyberWorx is hosting a design sprint for the United States Space Force to find possible solutions to the following problem statement:

How might Air Combat Command best leverage training, experience, and education data for Cyber Officers to empower talent management decisions? Specific objectives include the ability to:

Summit 2022: Space and Cyber Capabilities to Address Emerging Challenges

MITRE Corp. will be hosting during June 14-16, 2022, a Summit on Space-Cyber Resiliency in collaboration with several organizations including, the Defense Operational Test and Evaluation Test and Evaluation Threat Resources Activity (DOT&E TETRA), Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), and the Association of Old Crows (AOC). The title for the Summit is: “SUMMIT 2022: Space and Cyber Capabilities to address Emerging Challenges.”