- Stakeholders from across Maryland and the greater Mid-Atlantic region
- Community leaders committed to supporting installation missions, service members, military families and veterans
- Military installation leaders from Maryland bases
- Federal and state government collaborators
- Defense Industry Partners and Federal Contractors
- Defense and Community Leadership
- Community and Quality of Life Stakeholders
- Military Technology and R&D
- Defense Industry Members
- The Big Change Bang - What Shifting Defense Priorities and RIFs Mean to Maryland
- Bracing the Workforce Tide - What Goes Down Can Rise Again
- Beyond the Pale: Game Changing Partnerships & Collaboration
- Resilience v. Readiness
- Lighthouse Station: Growing Emerging Clusters, Strengthening the Backbone for Critical Technologies: Computational Biology, Quantum and PNT
- Housing, Child Development, Soldier and Family Quality of Life
- Smart Arsenal
- Building the Defense Workforce of Tomorrow
- Military Tech innovation in Maryland
- Military Health Technology
- Hypersonics
- Autonomous Systems & AI
- Directed Energy
- Advanced Materials
- C5ISR
- Microelectronics
- Maryland Lighthouse economic sectors (Including: Aerospace & Defense including Position/Navigation/Timing, Quantum Technologies, and Life Sciences including Computational Biology)
This event will bring together military leadership, defense communities, and industry representatives for two days of collaboration.
Hosted by the Maryland Department of Commerce, Maryland Economic Development Corporation, and the Federal Business Council, Inc., the Maryland Defense Forum is set to host discussions on building military: resilience and readiness; critical Department of Defense (DoD) technologies; supply chain diversification; government contracting challenges; and more.
This opportunity will give military communities a chance to meet with key DoD representatives and work together to address issues surrounding the economic vitality of Maryland’s military installations. The Maryland Defense Forum is targeted to a variety of individuals, including members of the defense industry and federal contractors; DoD leadership; academia; community leaders supporting installation missions; service members, military families, or veterans; and federal, state, and local government workers.
Maryland’s military installations have an annual economic impact of more than $60 billion and support roughly 400,000 Maryland jobs. As a top economic driver for the state, these installations drive innovation and create boundless opportunities for Maryland businesses.