Chemistry of Combat: Rebuilding America’s Energetics Base

The United States has an opportunity to build a new energetics enterprise that can support the scale and adaptability modern warfare demands. Rising munitions requirements, advances in manufacturing and chemistry, and a growing number of innovative new entrants have created new possibilities to expand production capacity, modernize aging facilities, and move promising energetic materials more rapidly into weapons systems. 

Join Hudson Institute for a discussion of how the US can build a more resilient and flexible energetics base that can meet sustained demand while accelerating the development of new capabilities.

Agenda:

1:00 p.m.–1:15 p.m.: Welcome and introductions.

1:15 p.m.–2:15 p.m.: Panel I—The Energetics Problem: Can the US Produce What the Next War Requires?

2:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.: Panel II—Building the Next Energetics Base: New Chemistry, New Entrants, New Manufacturing.

3:45 p.m.–4:45 p.m.: Panel III—From Molecule to Munition: Fixing the Transition Problem.

5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.: Networking Hour.