Nuclear Deterrence Summit 2027

The Summit is designed for the leaders, operators, strategists, and business partners working across the nuclear deterrence enterprise.

• 🏛️ 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.

                 

• 🔬 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.

                     
• ⚙️ 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.

                 

• 🏗️ 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.

                 

Government and industry don’t just present at NDS — they sit in the same room, at the same tables, working through the same problems. That’s what attendees consistently say makes it different from a typical industry conference.

Hear from senior leaders across government, the national laboratories, the military, and industry as they address the priorities, pressures, and opportunities shaping deterrence delivery. 

The Nuclear Deterrence Summit draws senior officials, program leaders, lab executives, field-office leadership, contractors, integrators, and emerging providers from across the U.S. nuclear enterprise. In 2026, the Summit brought 723 registrants together to align on modernization, production, NC3, cyber resilience, and workforce readiness — from DOE, NNSA, and the national laboratories to prime contractors, integrators, universities, and specialized SMEs.