Today's D Brief: D1 Tech Summit starts with DepSecDef; Taliban advances; Defining ‘extremism’; Lasers from space; USS Ford shock video; And a bit more.
Ben Watson | June 21, 2021
The Pentagon’s Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks keynotes the first day of activities for this year’s Defense One Tech Summit, our annual event gathering leaders and innovators across military, government, industry, and academia to talk about emerging technologies and their impact on the future of national security. And like 2020, this year’s event is entirely online.
This year’s summit is a five-day affair featuring officials from the National Security Agency, Congress, the Missile Defense Agency, Pentagon cyber policy, the Space Development Agency, the Air Force Research Laboratory, U.S. Special Operations Command, and more. DepSecDef Hicks will deliver her scheduled remarks today just after 1 p.m. ET.
This afternoon at 2 p.m. ET: JADC2. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall of the Joint Staff will discuss the U.S. military’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control (or, JADC2) as well as the future of multi-domain operations, the emerging technologies needed to make it a reality, and what sort of challenges might lie ahead. Defense One’s Patrick Tucker moderates that discussion.
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