June 4, 2026

TPP Defense Summit Puts Focus on Tech & Innovation

The Patuxent Partnership’s 2025 Defense Summit covered an array of topics last month keeping the focus on “Technology, Innovation and Capability to the Warfighter.” An audience of more than 200 attended the full-day program of dynamic panels and speakers, including NAWCAD leadership.

TPP Defense Summit Delivers Day of Dynamic Speakers, Panels

Defense Summit

The Patuxent Partnership’s 2024 Defense Summit welcomed dynamic speakers and panels to a full-day program that covered an array of topics with a focus on accelerating capabilities and acquisitions for the US Navy. Keynote speaker was Assistant Secretary of the Navy Russell Rumbaugh. Steve Spehn, deputy science advisor with the US European Command, was the event moderator.

Rumbaugh Keynote Speaker at Summit

Rumbaugh

Russell Rumbaugh, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management & Comptroller), is the scheduled keynote speaker for The Patuxent Partnership’s 2024 Defense Summit on March 27, 2024, at the University System of Maryland at Southern Maryland.