Week in Review

AOC 2022 was tremendously successful week. More than 2,600 EMSO professionals participated in the event, which featured an excellent symposium program focused around the "EMSO Playbook" theme, and an outstanding exhibit hall showcasing advanced technologies and services across a wide range of EW and SIGINT applications.

The symposium program provided attendees with insights from 84 keynote speakers, presenters, panelists and moderators. Keynote session topics ranged from NATO transformation and DOD acquisition developments for EMSO to Information Operations and Artificial Intelligence. Spotlight Sessions covered cross-cutting topics on young engineers; EMSO strategy on Capitol Hill; EMSO governance; and EW and EMSO-related requirements, science and technology development, and acquisition. The Program Managers' Briefing Series included four sessions on Navy/USMC, Air Force, Army and directed energy programs, with 19 panelists and moderators providing critical insight into their priorities and plans. And the eight breakout sessions covered specific topics, such as JADC2, 5G/Next G, counter-C5ISRT, cognitive EW, supply chains, and coalition EMSO and integration.

In the exhibit hall, It is clear that the DOD's open systems standards and middle tier acquisition pathways have helped to grow the EW and SIGINT industrial base. On the show floor, 143 organizations offered advanced technologies and a range of services for EMSO applications. This figure was nearly one-third larger than last year's event, and many companies were relatively young and exhibiting on the AOC show floor for the first time.

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