Mark Your Calendars! The Air Force Research Laboratory will host the 2024 Strategic Interchange Meetings (SIM) at the General Jacob E. Smart Conference Center, located on Joint Base Andrews, MD, during the week of April 15-19, 2024.
The 2024 SIM will focus on the Department of the Air Force's key strategic drivers shaping major DAF investments, the plans and challenges associated with achieving strategic objectives, and enabling integrated capabilities of the future force. Attendees can look forward to hearing from senior leaders from across the Department of the Air Force!
SIM Event
- Focus: This event will be by invitation only for those companies that are registered. Participants will have the opportunity to sit in and listen to subject matter experts about the DAF’s strategic drivers shaping major DAF investments, the plans and challenges associated with achieving strategic objectives, and enabling integrated capabilities of the future force.
- Classification: SECRET//NOFOR
- Dates: 15 – 19 April 2024 (Travel/Administration Day is the 15th; full agenda to follow)
- Location: The General Jacob E. Smart Conference Center, Joint Base Andrews, MD
Target Audience
The SIM informs Industry’s large, medium, and small businesses. This event will include presentations and discussions with objective of positively informing future investments, Industry’s Corporate Investment Strategies, Independent Research & Development (IR&D) technology portfolios, and new or revised approaches to collaborating and partnering with Industry.
What’s In It For You?
The world is evolving, and the Department of the Air Force response is altering the ways we plan for, invest in, and develop both capabilities and concepts for the Future Force. Participation in this Strategy Interchange Meeting offers:
- Opportunities to learn the DAF’s Future Force strategies, efforts, challenges, and investments geared towards securing strategic advantages for our Airmen and Guardians
- Insight into the Department’s interests in a wide array of technology areas and concepts
- Potential to inform future IR&D and commercial investment around known areas of interest to the Department
- Potential to obtain validated technical and threat information from government sources to inform future business models and investments
- Gain connection to numerous DAF stakeholders and customers
- Ability for you to network throughout the Department and with potential new industry partners
Summaries of Prior SIMs can be found here:
Registration & Preparation (on-line)
- The SIM is open to U.S. Defense Companies Only. Participants must be either a DoD employee or a DoD contractor with a valid DD Form 2345, Military Critical Technical Data Agreement. If you wish to participate and do not already have a DD Form 2345, a guide to completing the form can be found here. Completion of this form may take up to four weeks. This phase will allow participants time to complete this process ahead of the SIM. Note: This approval process is outside the control of the AFRL so please verify your current status and/or apply ASAP!
*Due to the classification level, all attendees must possess at the minimum a SECRET//NOFOR Security Clearance*
- Dates: 16 February 2024 – 15 March 2024
Attendee Registration / DD2345
- Industry Attendee Registration: Click HERE
- Send a copy of company’s certified DD2345 to the AF IR&D Office.
- DoD Employee Registration: Click HERE
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Future Updates
All subsequent updates and any additional information will only be posted to this Defense Innovation Marketplace website. Any key documents deemed of high importance to this dialogue with industry will be provided. Please note some government data distribution statements may vary, meaning some documents may be limited to U.S. Government Agencies and/or Department of Defense (DoD) employees/contractors. Partnering with defense-experienced companies is strongly suggested for firms that do not fall within these categories.