Pre-Summit Focus Day
9:00 am - 9:50 am Registration & Breakfast
9:50 am - 10:00 am Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
10:00 am - 11:00 am Congressional Perspectives to Bolster DE Development and Integration into Armed Services
- NDAA 2019 and its affect on DE competencies
- Congressional initiatives to spur DE operationalization and integration into the Services
- Considerations on FY2020 and ongoing DE efforts
11:00 am - 11:30 am Morning Networking Break
11:30 am - 12:45 pm Updates on the Congressional Directed Energy Caucus
- Current DE Caucus lines of effort
- Efforts to expand DE educational outreach
- DE caucus current recommendations for DE technological development
12:45 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Driving the Department’s DE Research: Current DE Priorities
- Vision for a DoD DE Technology Plan: technological priorities
- Out of development and onto deployment: necessary next steps
- Challenges of integrating HELs
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Networking Break
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm ACC Directed Energy Lethality Activities: DE Challenges & Opportunities
- Driving laser beaming capabilities in support of advanced lethality
- Challenges associated with DE integration efforts: necessary next steps
- Initiatives to put DE capabilities into the Warfighter’s hands