The Defense Technology Symposium (DTS) is hosted by Senator Richard Burr, Senator Thom Tillis, Fayetteville Technical Community College, the North Carolina Military Business Center, the North Carolina Defense Technology Transition Office, and the North Carolina Board of Science, Technology & Innovation. The symposium is funded, in part, by the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration and the Manufacturing Solutions Center at Catawba Valley Community College.
A joint JADC2-focused office, like the Joint Counter-small UAS office, could help ensure requirements are stacked and prioritized for the military services, Doug Bush, the assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, said.
After a directive confused some lawmakers, a provision in the NDAA threatens to nullify a potential shake-up of the Army's acquisition bureaucracy if representatives don't receive additional information about who's doing what.
Colonel Jay Wisham, the Director of Army Applications Laboratory, US Army Futures Command has been announced to speak at the conference in Arlington, VA.