Past event: Military Tactical Communications Summit 2024

The 13th Annual Military Tactical Communications Summit will bring together top experts and decision makers from the DoD, Military Services, Industry, and Academia for comprehensive discussions focused on upgrading tactical communications and improving network capabilities to support the Joint Force. The 2024 Summit will aim to advance rapid, resilient, affordable, and unified communication capabilities to enable sustained mission success across all domain.

Topics to be covered at the 2024 Summit:

  • Underscoring the Army's Commitment to Modernizing Communications and Information Systems
  • Leveraging Technology Innovation to Build Enduring Performance Advantage Across TACCOM
  • Delivering Resilient, Responsive, and Timely C2 Capabilities Across the DOD
  • Enhancing Tactical Communications for Cyberspace and Information Dominance
  • Enabling USMC Forces to Keep Pace with Current Threats in a Broad Range of Ground and Air Comm Spectrum
  • Demonstrating the Importance of Interoperability of SATCOM Systems through Industry and Government Collaboration

Why You Should Attend This Summit:

This year's Summit will provide a forum for Government and Industry leaders to convene and discuss the latest developments, projects, and partnerships concerning tactical communications. The DoD, in partnership with other agencies and private industry, has undertaken initiatives to enhance tactical communication systems and capabilities. Collaborations between defense agencies have resulted in the development of advanced communication systems and tools, enabling comprehensive data fusion and analysis through the leveraging of AI and ML. Further, the Summit will provide the opportunity for senior government leaders to address challenges linked to tactical communications developments such as protection against cyber and electronic warfare threats.

The USG and DoD have been heavily involved in special programming around the use of tactical communications within defense operations, disaster response, and resilience, as well as space-based communication systems. There is a growing push for national spending on communication infrastructure and its impact on defense capabilities and national security. Proposed amendments to the Communications Act would close gaps in the original legislation and push the nation closer to a shared infrastructure for the collection and dissemination of communication data.

This year's Military Tactical Communications Summit panel of experts will speak to the Army's network modernization strategy aimed at strengthening the capacity and resiliency of tactical network capabilities. Additionally, advancing space-based tactical communications to support ground operations and enhancing USAF tactical communications for cyberspace and information dominance are just a couple of the broad range of topics that will be broached at this year's iteration.

The team specializes in the extensive research and development of our Summit's content and focus areas, and we will assemble the most respected minds in the networking and communication technology community as well as key policy makers military and civilian offices. Our non-partisan approach allows us to reach across all services and organizations to bring together a truly holistic group of decision makers and solution providers.

At our Symposium You Have the Ability To:

Gain Education & Insight: Walk away with knowledge gained from our senior level speakers on some of the complex challenges facing the tactical communications community

Build Partnerships: The agenda is designed to allow for ample networking opportunities and the ability to engage in constructive dialogue among all in attendance.

Influence: : Help foster ideas! Share your own insight and knowledge during our interactive sessions. All attendees are encouraged to address our speaker faculty and each other with their questions, comments or ideas.

Exhibit and Sponsorship Information:

The 2024 Tactical Communications Summit provides opportunities for exhibit space, round table discussions, product demonstrations, luncheon, and cocktail receptions.
Contact us for sponsorship information

2024 Confirmed Speakers

  • Elizabeth Durham-Ruiz, SES, Director, C4 and CIO STRATCOM
  • Mike Dean, SES, Director, DoD CIO C3 Infrastructure Office of the DoD CIO
  • Garrett Shoemaker, SES, Director, Software Engineering Center, CECOM SEC, APG MD
  • Garry Bishop, SES, Deputy Director, Operational Test & Evaluation, Land and Expeditionary Warfare DOT&E
  • Dave Burns, Deputy SML, Enterprise IT and Cyber Infrastructure Division AFLCMC/HNI
  • Greg Kuperman, PhD, PM, Strategic Technology Office DARPA
  • MG (Ret.) Peter Gallagher, USA, SVP, Tech Solution, CACI Former Director, Network CFT, AFT
  • Phu “Phil” Tran, Chief Engineer, Tactical SATCOM Acquisition Delta, MilComm & PNT Directorate Space Systems Command
  • Paul Mehney, Vice President, Strategy and Communications, THALES
  • MG (Ret.) Mitchell Kilgo, USA, Executive Partner, Federal Government Region, Gartner Former Commanding General, U.S. Army Communications Electronics Command, (Event Moderator)

Please fill in your name and email to receive the Summit Agenda of this event.

Venue

151 St. George
151 St. George Blvd, 20745
Oxon Hill, National Harbor, MD

Hotel rooms are available at a discounted rate:
THE WESTIN WASHINGTON NATIONAL HARBOR
Address: 171 Waterfront St.
National Harbor, Maryland 20745

THE HYATT PLACE NATIONAL HARBOR
123 Waterfront St.
National Harbor, Maryland, United States, 20745

AC HOTEL NATIONAL HARBOR
156 Waterfront Street
National Harbor, Maryland
*Please Note: This discounted partner rate will be available starting 60 days before the event begins.

Parking: Parking details will be provided to registrants one week before the event in the “Event Logistics” e-mail.
Event details
Organizer : DSI
Event type : Conference
Reference : ASDE-25078