Future Force Capabilities

Authors should submit abstracts relevant to the abstract categories. Abstracts should be clear and address Armament System technologies, enablers, and integration providing benefits to the community at large.

Submission Deadline: Monday, June 24, 2024

Notification Deadline: End of July 2024

Final Program: Early September 2024

While the division strongly discourages marketing, it is recognized that presentations involving innovation, emerging technologies and new systems may have the appearance of a “sales pitch.” The division encourages the innovation and initiative of companies, commands and individuals who are addressing solutions to capability gaps, advancing the state of the art, addressing weapon system integration providing unique production capabilities or related supporting capabilities. Attention to “lessons learned,” operational capability and evolving impact of industrial base capability are of interest. International participation is welcomed.

It is the responsibility of each author to obtain approval to attend sufficiently far in advance of the conference to allow NDIA to publish an accurate program.

Submit Your Abstract

Multiple Submissions

Authors may submit multiple abstracts for presentations. However, the maximum number of presentations allowed for any author is two. This allows for the broadest range of technical presentations.

Tips for Authors

Since numerous abstracts will be submitted, it is important that the abstract clearly outline the summary of the project objectives, results, benefits to the warfighter an U.S. and allies defense capability. Abstracts with direct link to the Armament Conference theme and discuss specific capability benefits have the best chance of being selected. Preference will be given to those abstracts that provide a concise and thorough summary of the project objectives and results. Make your title as concise as possible to facilitate its listing in the conference program. Submissions must be appropriate for an open 20-minute oral presentation which includes 5 minutes for questions and answers. Presentation guidelines will be provided with notices of presentations selected.

It is the author’s responsibility to secure approval for participation and travel prior to submitting an abstract.

Conference Registration

Primary authors of abstracts that are selected for presentation are required to register and pay a reduced conference fee. Fee guidelines and criteria will be provided as soon as possible. Please keep this in mind prior to submitting an abstract.