Why Attend
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Direct Access
Hear priorities and execution signals from government, lab, military, and industry leaders.
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Actionable Insight
Follow the changes affecting modernization, acquisition, supply chain resilience, and mission readiness.
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High-Value Networking
Meet the organizations shaping deterrence delivery across policy, programs, and execution.
Who Should Attend
The Summit is designed for the leaders, operators, strategists, and business partners working across the nuclear deterrence enterprise.
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🏛️ Federal Government & Military
The one unclassified forum where policy meets the people executing it. Senior officials from NNSA, DOE, DoD, and the military services gather here to align priorities, hear from peers across the enterprise, and engage directly with the contractors and labs driving modernization forward.
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🔬 National Laboratories & Research
Where lab leadership shapes the national conversation. Directors, program leads, and senior researchers from the DOE’s weapons labs use NDS as the stage to articulate priorities, build relationships across the enterprise, and engage the industry partners critical to executing their modernization missions.
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⚙️ M&O Contractors & Weapons Complex
Every major site. Every M&O. Under one roof. The contractors running the nation’s nuclear production facilities — and the engineering, construction, and supply chain firms backing them — converge at NDS to coordinate, compete, and build the relationships that move the modernization mission forward.
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🏗️ Defense Industry, Technology & Services
Your customers are in this room. From multi-billion-dollar primes to specialized technology providers breaking into the NSE, NDS is where defense industry firms build the government relationships, market intelligence, and competitive positioning that determine who wins — and who doesn’t — in the modernization era.
Why NDS 2027 Matters
The nuclear enterprise is operating under rising demands for modernization, responsiveness, execution discipline, industrial-base resilience, and strategic alignment. NDS is built to help attendees understand what is changing, what it means for their organizations, and where action is required next.
Attendees Come to NDS to:
- Understand the latest federal priorities and mission pressures.
- Hear how leaders are approaching delivery, risk, and readiness.
- Identify what changes matter for programs, partnerships, and planning.
- Return with insight they can use immediately.
The Right People. The Right Conversations.
NDS brings together senior officials, program leaders, lab executives, field-office leadership, contractors, integrators, and emerging providers from across the U.S. nuclear enterprise.
Featured 2026 Speakers
Hear from senior leaders across government, the national laboratories, the military, and industry as they address the priorities, pressures, and opportunities shaping deterrence delivery.
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Brandon Williams
Under Secretary for Nuclear Security at Department of Energy & AdministratorNational Nuclear Security Administration -
Admiral Richard Correll
CommanderU.S. Strategic Command -
Kevin Cramer
United States SenatorState of North Dakota
Registration Options
Choose the registration category that fits your organization.
Group discounts: When two-four people register in a group, each person will receive 15% discount off cost of registration by using the discount code GROUP when registering online at the payment stage of the process.
What You’ll Cover at NDS 2027
From policy to execution, the program is designed to help attendees understand both strategic direction and operational realities across the enterprise.
Program Focus
- Modernization and production
- Mission execution and field-office priorities
Enterprise Delivery
- Contracting and acquisition
- Industrial base and supply chain
Readiness and Innovation
- Labs, technology, and AI
- Workforce, readiness, and resilience
Who You’ll Meet
Meet leaders and teams from across federal agencies, NNSA field offices and M&O organizations, national laboratories, prime contractors and integrators, and specialized contractors, technology firms, and suppliers.
2026 Sponsors
2026 Participating Organizations
The Nuclear Deterrence Summit brought together the organizations that design, fund, operate and secure the U.S. nuclear enterprise. From DOE, NNSA and the national laboratories to prime contractors, integrators, universities and specialized SMEs, this is where government and industry come together to align on modernization, production, NC3, cyber resilience and workforce readiness.
Be in the Room for NDS 2027
