DETERRENCE SYMPOSIUM AGENDA

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Symposium Registration & Breakfast
 
8:00 AM - 8:05 AM
Opening Remarks

Rear Admiral Thomas Buchanan, Director, Plans and Policy, United States Strategic Command 

8:05 AM - 8:15 AM
Welcoming Remarks: Commander's Assessment

Admiral Richard Correll, Commander, United States Strategic Command 

8:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Panel #1: Confronting Strategic Threat Vectors

Moderator: TBD

Panel:

  • Lt Gen Michael Lutton, Deputy Commander, USSTRATCOM
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Break
 
9:50 AM - 10:20 AM
Keynote Speaker: NDS and Nuclear Strategy Review

Hon Elbridge Colby, Under Secretary of War for Policy

10:20 AM - 11:00 AM
Fireside Chat: The Shaping and Formation of the NDS, w/Q&A

Hon Elbridge Colby, Under Secretary of War for Policy

Moderator: TBD

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Break
 
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Lunch
 
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Keynote Speaker: U.S. Strategy and Global Stability

TBD

1:00 PM - 1:20 PM
Break
 
1:25 PM - 2:45 PM
Panel #2: NDS Line of Effort 1: Defend the U.S. Homeland
 
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Break
 
Media Roundtable
 
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Panel #3: NDS Line of Effort 2: Deter China in the Indo-Pacific Through Strength, Not Confrontation

Moderator: TBD

Panel:

  • Maj Gen AnnMarie Anthony, Director Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Center, USSTRATCOM
5:30 PM
Informal Reception
 
7:00 AM - 7:45 AM
International Breakfast
 
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Symposium Registration (AS REQ) & Breakfast
 
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Keynote Speaker: U.S. Strategy and the Nuclear Security Enterprise

TBD

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Panel #4: NDS Line of Effort 3: Increasing Burden-Sharing with U.S. Allies and Partners

Moderator: TBD

Panel: TBD

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Break
 
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Panel #5: NDS Line of Effort 4: Supercharge the Defense Industrial Base

Moderator: TBD

Panel: 

  • TBD
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch
 
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Keynote Speaker: Air and Missile Defenses: Golden Dome and Beyond

TBD

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM
General Larry D. Welch Writing Award Presentation
 
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Break
 
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Panel #6: The 2026 National Defense Strategy: A Framework for Force Planning

Moderator: TBD

Panel:

  • TBD
3:15 PM - 3:50 PM
Closing Comments

Admiral Richard Correll, Commander, United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)

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