6th Annual Joint Fires Summit Returns with Senior Defense Speaker Lineup

Defense Strategies Institute is pleased to announce the 6th Annual Joint Fires Summit, taking place February 24-25, 2027, at the Jackson Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

As the Department of War modernizes fires for contested, multi-domain operations, the Joint Force has to find the right target, share information across the services, and deliver the right effect before the opportunity is gone. The Summit will convene senior leaders and decision-makers from across the Department of War, the Joint Staff, combatant commands, military services, acquisition organizations, academia, and industry to look at how integrated fires capabilities are delivered and fielded.

This forum will cover building a resilient Joint Fires Network, modernizing targeting and effects, scaling munitions and precision strike production, integrating offensive and defensive fires, building expeditionary maritime fires, and synchronizing non-kinetic effects with joint fires.

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2027 Confirmed Speakers

• Miranda Oden, SES – Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, ASA(ALT)
• RADM Joaquin J. Martinez de Pinillos, USN – Vice Commander and Flag Lead for Maritime Fires Executive Agent, U.S. Pacific Fleet
• Col Alex Constantine, USAF – Senior Materiel Leader, Joint Fires Network Integrated Program Office, PAE C3BM
• COL Corrie Brice, USA – Director, Army Multi-Domain Targeting Center, Fires Center of Excellence, Fort Sill
• COL Shannon Thompson, USA – Directed Energy, CPE Defense Fires, PAE Fires
• COL Charles Kean, USA – Commander, 1st Multi-Domain Task Force
• LTG (Ret) Neil Thurgood, USA – SVP, Army Strategy, Anduril Industries; Former Director, Army RCCTO
• LTG (Ret) Robert Rasch, USA – Founder & President, R3 – Rasch Advisory Group, LLC; Former Director, Army RCCTO
• VADM (Ret) Jon Hill, USN – Vice President & General Manager, Air Dominance & Strike Weapons, Lockheed Martin; Former Director, MDA
• Dr. Patrick Stadter – Mission Area Executive, Theater Defense, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
• Scott Lee – Director, Chief Engineer, Army Multi-Domain C2 and Operations, MITRE
• MG (Ret) Al Shoffner, USA (Event Moderator) – Former Commanding General, Fires Center of Excellence and Fort Sill
  

DSI is now welcoming Sponsors and Exhibitors for the forum. To learn more, please contact Markos Andriotis.

Active-duty US military and government personnel attend complimentary. Those interested in participating in the Joint Fires Summit can visit Defense Strategies Institute’s website. Anyone interested in learning more or sending questions please contact Nikole Barto.