2025 Agenda

Monday, January 27th

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  1. 8:00 am — 12:00 pm

    Pre-Conference Workshop

    The Pre-Conference Workshop is available to all attendees for an additional fee of $199.  Details coming soon!  

    Sponsored by:

    TechSource, Inc.
  2. 2:00 pm — 2:15 pm

    Welcome to the 2025 Summit!

  3. 2:15 pm — 3:00 pm

    Opening Keynote: Updates from NNSA Leadership

    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.

  4. 3:00 pm — 3:30 pm

    Networking Break

  5. 3:30 pm — 4:15 pm

    Furthering the AUKUS Partnership and the Path Forward

  6. 4:15 pm — 5:00 pm

    Navigating Future Challenges in Nuclear Weapons Development: Strategic Solutions for NNSA Lab Directors

    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.

  7. 5:00 pm — 7:00 pm

    Networking Reception

    Sponsored by:

    Longenecker & Associates

Tuesday, January 28th

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  1. 7:30 am — 8:30 am

    Networking Breakfast

    Sponsored by:

    Anser
  2. 8:30 am — 9:15 am

    Morning Keynote: Strategic Policy and Planning

  3. 9:15 am — 10:00 am

    Pit Production Current Updates and Future Projections

    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.  

  4. 10:30 am — 11:30 am

    Perspectives from NNSA Site Operations

    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.

  5. 10:00 am — 10:30 am

    Networking Break

  6. 11:30 am — 12:30 pm

    National Security Implications of the Front End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle

    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.

  7. 12:30 pm — 1:30 pm

    Networking Luncheon

    Sponsored by:

    Honeywell Federal Solutions
  8. 1:30 pm — 2:30 pm

    Counterterrorism and Nonproliferation: Safeguarding Global Security

    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.

  9. 2:30 pm — 3:30 pm

    Infrastructure Initiatives and the Path Forward

    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.

  10. 3:30 pm — 4:00 pm

    Networking Break

  11. 3:30 pm — 4:30 pm

    Digital Engineering Implementation in Nuclear Weapons Delivery

    Digital engineering will help the Nuclear Security Enterprise 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. For example, Sandia National Laboratories experienced increased efficiency, achieved higher performing and better optimized systems across all platforms with digital engineering. Perspectives from the NNSA and from other stakeholders working at specific sites will provide an update to this top priority.

  12. 5:00 pm — 6:00 pm

    Workforce Development Challenges, Successes and Future Plans

    Plagued by staffing shortages that pose threats to production goals, cleanup initiatives and national security implications, NNSA has developed a workforce planning process to help ensure that future budget requests better reflect staffing needs. These processes include, recruitment, emergency preparedness and multi-year workforce projections and plans, including identifying the professions that are projected to be in the highest demand.

  13. 6:00 pm — 7:30 pm

    Networking Reception

Wednesday, January 29th

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  1. 7:30 am — 8:30 am

    Networking Breakfast

    Sponsored by:

    The Aerospace Corporation
  2. 8:30 am — 9:30 am

    Morning Keynote: Office of Defense Programs

  3. 9:30 am — 10:30 am

    Weapons Directors Update

    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.

  4. 10:30 am — 11:00 am

    Networking Break

  5. 11:15 am — 12:00 pm

    Global Threats and International Security

    This session will discuss the ongoing policies to protect the nation from nuclear threats, build stronger international partnerships and bring new ideas and technologies to the global nonproliferation initiatives.

  6. 12:00 pm — 1:00 pm

    Fireside Chat with STRATCOM Commander

    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. 

  7. 1:00 pm — 1:00 pm

    Conference Ends

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