Digital Engineering for Defense Summit

The Department of War is focused on accelerating the delivery of advanced warfighting capabilities to the Joint Force with greater speed, agility, and efficiency.  As systems become increasingly complex, digital engineering is emerging as a critical approach for designing, developing, delivering, and sustaining next generation defense capabilities.  By leveraging integrated digital environments, model-based systems engineering, and advanced data-driven tools, the DoW is transforming how defense systems are engineered across the acquisition and sustainment lifecycle.

Defense Strategies Institute’s 4^th Annual Digital Engineering for Defense Summit will explore the implementation of digital engineering tools, technologies, and strategies that are modernizing defense systems, accelerating capability delivery, reducing program cost and risk, and improving interoperability across the services.  Attendees will hear from leaders across the community on efforts to integrate digital transformation initiatives, including modeling and simulation, digital twins, digital threads, AI/ML, and emerging technologies across the services, federal government, academia, and industry.  Sessions will explore what it means for programs to be “born digital”, highlight real-world implementation efforts, and examine how digital engineering is enabling faster, more collaborative development of mission-critical systems. Join us at the 2026 Summit to engage and collaborate with key stakeholders to share best practices for engineering innovation and discuss strategies for accelerating digital engineering adoption across the defense enterprise.

DSI’s team specializes in the extensive research and development of our Summits’ content and focus areas, and we will assemble the most respected minds in digital engineering and digital transformation across military, academia, and industry.  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.

• Gain Education & Insight: Walk away with knowledge gained from our senior level speakers on some of the complex challenges facing the digital engineering 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.

DSI’s Summit directly supports DoW and Government priorities by providing a conduit for officials to efficiently reach audiences outside of their respective offices that directly impact their department’s mission success, at no charge to the government, and in an efficient expenditure of time.

DSI’s Summit will provide a forum to address and improve internal and external initiatives, meet with and hear from partner organizations, disseminate vital capability requirements to industry, increase visibility within the larger community, and generally support their mission.

The Summit is open and complimentary to all DoD and Federal employees and is considered an educational and training forum.

(Industry and academia members are charged a fee for admission)

Summit is CLOSED TO PRESS / NO RECORDINGS