Dialogue, Military and Industry: The Future of Textile Technologies, Innovation and New Product Development. This session will focus on the future of advanced textile technologies and their application to textile-based individual and organizational equipment and the soldier as a system. Military panel members will highlight known future requirements and the advanced textile technologies expected to address those needs. Business panelists will discuss specific, recently-developed technologies expected to meet known DoD priorities. Finally, representatives of industry associations will highlight member businesses' emerging research and development activities in both woven and nonwoven technologies expected to meet as-yet unforecasted DoD requirements. Dialogue with industry and military audience partners is encouraged, with the goal of identifying the "art of the possible" for advanced textile technologies to enable and enhance the equipping, enabling, protection and sustaining of the future warfighter.
Dialogue, Military and Industry: Workforce, Inflation, Supply Chain and Other Market Forces Impacting Acquisition and Delivery of Clothing, Textiles and Tactical Equipment to the Military. This session will focus on having a frank and collegial dialogue about how industry and DOD can together embrace best practices to replenish and sustain our fighting forces. This can best be accomplished by understanding each other’s challenges.
Military Service Dialogue with Industry will discuss current and programmed future requirements, acquisition processes and current and future acquisitions, and will dialogue with industry about production capacity and challenges for products within various commodity categories, as outlined below. Speakers and industry may also dialogue about priorities, production challenges and opportunities to integrate advanced technologies into products within these commodity sectors.
DLA Commodity Focus. DLA will discuss programmed future requirements,acquisition processes and current and future acquisitions, and will dialogue with industry about production capacity and challenges for products within various commodity categories, as outlined below. Speakers and industry may also dialogue about priorities, production challenges and opportunities to integrate advanced technologies intoproducts within these commodity sectors.