Emerging and Enabling Technology Conference
August 24 - 27, 2009 Huntsville, Alabama
The Richard C. Shelby Center for Missile Intelligence Auditorium
Welcome to the 2009 Emerging and Enabling Technologies Conference webpage.
The Emerging and Enabling Technology Conference will focus on the identification of worldwide emerging technologies which have the potential to be most promising or most disruptive to national security. The conference is sponsored by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) / Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC), the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) / U.S. Army Forces Strategic Command (ARSTRAT), Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Emerging and enabling technologies are those of which basic scientific and engineering principles are becoming sufficiently well understood and the outlines of potential applications are beginning to take shape. Emerging and enabling technologies to be discussed during the conference will be those which reflect worldwide activities aligned with Intelligence and Security, Missile & Weapon Science, Space & Rocket Science, Aviation Science, Communications Information Science, Materials & Materials Science, Software Technology, Electronics Technology, and Cyber Technology.
Conference Objectives
The identification of emerging and enabling technologies of interest to contributing participants.
The enumeration of potential applications and potential implications if implemented for those technologies.
Recommendations or actions to overcome or mitigate limitations or weaknesses in the development of emerging and enabling technologies.
Identification of potential science and technology investments for those technologies believed to be the most promising or the most disruptive to national security.