On Wednesday October 18

Virtual meeting **Membership not required**

Mini Drones in Modern Warfare

Mini-drones are cheap and plentiful, and are filling the role of reconnaissance, artillery, and electronic warfare in Ukraine. At the same time, they are employing all the aspects of counter measures against these same things. Brief intro summary of how small cheap commercial equipment is replacing million dollar systems.

With speakers Chuck Weis and Lt Col Alex “STOIKY” Goldberg

Mini-drones are cheap and plentiful, and are filling the role of reconnaissance, artillery, and electronic warfare.  At the same time, they are employing all the aspects of counter measures against these same things. Brief intro summary of how small cheap commercial equipment is replacing million dollar systems.

1530 CST Chuck Weiss is the current NDIA Lone Star Chapter Treasurer. Chuck has 39 years experience in defense contracting at Texas Instruments and Raytheon. He has worked on a variety of missile programs and intelligence services.

1540 CST Lt Col Alex “STOIKY” Goldberg is the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) lead for Strategic, Defense, and Commercial Engagement in Austin, Texas. Currently, Alex is responsible for implementing the innovation strategy of the Office of the Secretary of Defense throughout the southwest region of the U.S, as well as acting as the primary liaison between the DoD, venture capital, private equity, and startup communities.

3:30 PM Meeting starts.  Presentation, Q&A

4:30 Meeting ends, networking until 5:00pm

Event is free and open to the public. 

RSVP link and zoom info is here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ndia-lone-star-october-engagement-meeting-mini-drones-in-modern-warfare-tickets-738179222927?aff=oddtdtcreator

Questions?  Contact Patricia Baumhart at pbaumhart@me.com

On Wednesday September 13

Virtual meeting  **Membership not required**

Systems-of-systems approach to Autonomous Operations at scale

With speakers Andrew Carter, ResilienX Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, and Don Berchoff, TruWeather Solutions CEO

 

5:30 PM Networking starts

6:00 PM Presentation, Q&A, demo

7:00 PM Networking until 7:30

 

Event is free and open to the public.  Please RSVP here

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ndia-lone-star-chapter-september-member-engagement-meeting-tickets-700438007937?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

Questions?  Contact Patricia Baumhart at pbaumhart@me.com

 

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89293266893?pwd=ZUF2WTZITEl3d0VjU2h4QlhlUkp3QT09

Meeting ID: 892 9326 6893. Passcode: 925287

On Wednesday August 9

Hybrid meeting, In-person and virtual ** Membership not required **

Active Digital Twins

With speakers Starr Long, Executive Producer, The Accelerator Agency, and Jim Young, Managing Director of Atomic Maps.

Active Digital Twin – a virtual representation or digital replica of a physical object, system, or process – is a digital counterpart that mirrors the characteristics, behavior, and attributes of its physical counterpart in real-time or near-real-time. Active Digital Twins, which georectify data, are becoming increasingly popular in defense, cities and countries as a tool for decision-making and more.

And, we’ll visit CBRE’s Liquid Galaxy demo room. https://liquidgalaxy.org

5:30 PM Networking starts
6:00 PM Presentation, Q&A, demo
7:00 PM  Networking until 7:30 PM

Event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP here

Questions? Contact Patricia Baumhart at pbaumhart@me.com.

F2F: 500 W 2nd Street , Austin, Texas

Zoom: 

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84439781487?pwd=bzNnVDJvTEVHYVlNUGRrbTg3M1Bqdz09
Meeting ID: 844 3978 1487. Passcode: 196004

Event is free –  membership is not required to attend this event – please RSVP :

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ndia-lone-star-chapter-august-member-engagement-meeting-tickets-663663534497

 

On Thursday July 13!

Hybrid meeting: in-person and virtual, **Membership is not required to attend this event**

Space-based Multilayered Optical-mesh-network

With Mark LaPenna, Chairman, CEO and Founder of Xenesis, a telecommunications company which uses lasers in space, to communicate data across vast distances.

Xenesis’ space based multilayered optical-mesh-network leverages dynamic address logic in transporting data (agnostic) from any point of origin to any point of presence at speeds up to 10 Gbps with lowest possible latency.

6:00 PM Networking starts
6:30 PM Meeting starts
7:30 PM Meeting ends; networking until 8 PM

Event is free and open to the public. Details here, please RSVP.

Questions? Contact Patricia Baumhart at pbaumhart@me.com.

F2F:

Join by Zoom

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82709835208?pwd=MTQ1NGpZcjllbkQrSXNESTZaRkVHQT09

Meeting ID: 827 0983 5208. Passcode: 086551

 

On Thursday, June 29th

**Membership is not required to attend this event**

Accelerating Semiconductor Manufacturing supporting defense technologies

With Ed Hendricks, Dir Bus Dev NextFlex

Manufacturing USA consists of a national network of linked manufacturing institutes. Each has a unique technological concentration but is also designed to accelerate U.S. advanced manufacturing as a whole.

NextFlex’s mission is to advance U.S. manufacturing of Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE). NextFlex delivers on this mission through public-private partnerships that facilitate printed flexible technology innovation and commercialization, accelerate advanced manufacturing workforce development, and promote a sustainable ecosystem for advanced manufacturing. Taking advantage of FHE’s ability to conform to organic shapes, electronic capability can now be incorporated into new and emerging consumer, medical and industrial products that, when combined with rapid advancements in data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), enable real-time decisions and analysis.

NextFlex is participating in 4-Year DOD grant for accelerating semiconductor manufacturing supporting Defense technologies led by UT Austin/Austin Technology Incubator and the National Security Innovation Council (NSIC). Under this grant, NextFlex will provide access to advanced microelectronics prototyping and manufacturing facilities and provide manufacturing/engineering support to emerging Texas-based defense-manufacturing companies.

6:00 PM Networking starts

6:30 PM Meeting starts

7:30 PM Meeting ends; networking until 8pm.

 

Event is free and open to the public.  Please RSVP here.

Questions?  Contact Patricia Baumhart at pbaumhart@me.com

 

Join by Zoom 

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87603864358?pwd=UlRwbktRZUJQOS9PR2FVNGpSR2pQdz09

Meeting ID: 876 0386 4358. Passcode: 796661