(Attend the Pre-Conference workshop for an additional $199 to your registration price – includes lunch in the Skyview Room).
*Pre-Conference Workshop is closed to Press.
As the U.S. continues to navigate the complexities of the evolving international landscape, advancing the strategic deterrent remains vital for national security. This pivotal workshop offers a unique opportunity to expand perspectives and deepen understanding of the challenges and opportunities that are shaping the modernization effort.
In this 3-part session, leading experts will delve into the critical facets of integrated modernization. They will emphasize the importance of synchronizing efforts to effectively address emerging threats, and illustrate how modernization influences operations, workforce, and overall mission execution. The speakers will delve into strategies to mitigate risks associated with non-nuclear components, and supply chain challenges and the importance of maintaining the integrity and reliability of our deterrence capabilities.
The experts will also focus on NSE collaborative opportunities between the DOE/NNSA and DoD, and innovative approaches such as contracting and public-private partnerships imperative for advancing our strategic objectives. To close out the session attendees will hear from key figures in the NSE who will provide valuable insights and updates on current research and development, milestone achievements, and plans for the NSE.
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This session will discuss the latest priorities for the NNSA Leadership including, workforce recruitment and retention, ongoing challenges in infrastructure while building for future needs and requirements, monitoring pit production in accordance with DoD needs including the changing security landscape and maximizing NNSA capabilities for other challenges.
This session will address the maturing partnership among Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States under the AUKUS trilateral agreement, which enables cooperation essential to Australia’s capacity to safely build, operate and maintain a conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarine capability. The agreement serves as a critical platform for ensuring stability, fostering innovation, and bolstering shared defense capabilities. The session will explore recent developments and successes within the AUKUS framework, highlighting collaboration efforts in advanced technology sharing, infrastructure modernization, and nuclear-powered submarine capabilities.
In an era marked by rapid technological advancement, geopolitical shifts, and evolving security threats, NNSA lab directors face unprecedented challenges in the development, maintenance, and modernization of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Join the directors of Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories to explore the future landscape of nuclear weapons development, focusing on strategic solutions to emerging challenges.
Discussions will cover the integration of cutting-edge technologies, maintaining safety and security in a rapidly changing environment, workforce development, and the role of international collaboration. Attendees will gain insights into navigating the complexities of nuclear deterrence, ensuring national security, and sustaining innovation in the face of budgetary and political constraints and what comes next.
Join us for an engaging morning keynote focusing on the ongoing relationships and communications between NNSA headquarters, the field offices, and the M&O partners. This session will discuss current updates, expectations and progress for delivery schedules, performance metrics and milestones.
NNSA continues to pursue its current pit production goals annually at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and at the Savannah River Site. This session will discuss current updates, expectations and progress for pit production schedules.
Gain insights into the operational challenges and strategic initiatives at the (NNSA) sites. This session will feature key leaders from various NNSA facilities who will share their perspectives on managing site operations, maintaining safety standards, and advancing mission-critical objectives. Attendees will hear about the latest developments in site management, collaboration across facilities, and the innovative approaches being employed to ensure national security and technological advancement and guidelines to assist sites to move into the next phase.
A thriving domestic nuclear fuel cycle is critical for civilian nuclear energy, but also has important implications for national security. This panel will discuss strategies for revitalizing America’s nuclear fuel supply chain — from mining to conversion to enrichment – to meet unobligated national security needs as well as civilian requirements.
In an increasingly interconnected world, the threats of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) pose significant challenges to global security. This session will explore the critical intersection of counterterrorism and nonproliferation, focusing on strategies to prevent the acquisition and use of WMDs by state and non-state actors.
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) infrastructure modernization initiative is a decades-long effort to modernize and expand the facilities and infrastructure needed to produce nuclear weapons. The initiative uses data-driven and risk informed decision making tools to ensure efficiency and repeatable results for construction projects, repurposing, upgrading current capabilities including, uranium enrichment, plutonium pit production, lithium processing, and tritium processing, are reliable for the future nuclear stockpile.
Digital engineering will help the Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) meet the crucial operational needs of nuclear deterrence, as well as other mission areas that deliver critical systems to the nation. At last year’s event, NNSA stated that digital engineering was a top priority and since then, it established a Digital Transformation Steering Group to address both challenges and solutions for the implementation. Digital engineering can be applied to many capabilities that facilitate increased collaboration while reducing the time required to execute programs, by shifting away from traditional and cumbersome paper-based documentation. This panel will discuss the capability that is in the process of establishing for the NSE, and how it will benefit our enterprise.
Staffing shortages and mismatches of skills with work requirements pose risks to production goals, cleanup initiatives, and national security implications. NNSA and its contractors have developed a workforce planning processes and tools to accurately predict the mix of skills and quantity of personnel needed to deliver the NNSA mission today and tomorrow. This panel discusses techniques for projecting multi-year workforce needs in a complex environment, including identifying the skills and qualifications projected to be in the highest demand and recruiting, training, and retaining personnel to meet that demand.
Join us for a vibrant evening at the Tacos & Tequila Fiesta, a special networking reception designed to bring attendees together in a relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere. Sponsored by Fluor, this lively event invites you to indulge in a delicious taco station and savor our specialty margaritas and refreshing mocktails as you mingle with industry peers and leaders, all while enjoying the lively music that sets the perfect backdrop for conversation and connection. The reception will take place in the exhibit hall, providing the ideal setting for making meaningful connections amidst the flavors of Mexico.
Don’t miss this opportunity to enjoy great food, delightful drinks, and engage in inspiring discussions. Whether you’re looking to unwind after a day of sessions or to spark new collaborations, the Tacos & Tequila Fiesta Reception promises to be an unforgettable highlight of the event!
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Do our current risk management processes really support fully informed decision making at all levels, from strategic down to technical risk? This session will first explore how our definitions of risk and our tools do or do not support effectively analyzing, integrating, and managing risks to achieve our objectives. Then, the discussion will shift to the decision makers, focusing on the challenges they face and how they can best use knowledge of risk to navigate the path to success.
Join our national laboratory weapons program directors to discuss a non-classified overview of current weapons programs, the challenges of design and maintenance projects dealing with system alterations, life-extension, stewardship, the impact and consequences of recapitalization, schedule compression due to mission expansion, and initiatives for improved mission delivery.
Join this session to hear the latest perspectives on emerging technology, and digital innovation, the evolving global environment, and force modernization for STRATCOM’s global mission.
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