Should You Register Early for the Discount?
The final agenda is published in January, but our tentative program published below provides a strong indication of what you can expect this year. You can also check out last year’s agenda.
Should You Register Early
for the Discount?
The final agenda is published in January, but our tentative program published below provides a strong indication of what you can expect this year. You can also check out last year’s agenda.
Who Should Attend
NSI Impact?
Who Should Attend NSI Impact?
Security Operations Leaders
Site FSOs & AFSOs
Corporate FSOs & AFSOs
Technical & Program Support
Tentative 2026 Program
Final Agenda Will be Published in January
The final agenda is published in January, but our tentative program published below provides a strong indication of what you can expect this year. You can also check out last year’s agenda.
General Sessions
Regardless of title or size of organization, if you’re in a security role you will take away a ton of value from Impact General Sessions.
Get briefings from top security experts who remind you exactly what makes your program and your role so vital to business interests and U.S. national security. Enhance your understanding of evolving threats and emerging risks.
Held just 100-days into the new year, NSI Impact is your first opportunity to connect in person with government and industry leaders shaping the policies that will effect your day to day.
Grow in your ability to engage with business colleagues and leadership in a way that burnishes your reputation and benefits your career.
National Security & Threats
Impact Sessions
China Increasingly Targeting U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Gen. Tim Haugh, frm. Director of NSA Invited
The United States is Facing a New Era of Threats Beyond Earth
United States Space Force Invited
Top Insider Risk Challenges in 2026
Not Just Primes: Nation-States Target Everyone in the DIB Supply Chain
Bailey Bickley, Chief of DIB Defense, NSA Cybersecurity Collaboration Center Invited
Strategies for Dealing with AI Threats to Security
Policy Insights in Action
Impact Sessions
Navigating the Evolving Security Clearance Landscape
Perry Russell-Hunter, Director, DOHA
DCSA Industrial Security 2026: Issues, Priorities and Answers
Matt Redding, Associate Director, DCSA
DCSA Priorities, Plans & Points of Emphasis 2026
Daniel Lecce, Assistant Director, DCSA
NISPPAC: Evolving Policies & Ongoing Work You Should Be Paying Attention To
Isaiah “Ike” Rivers, CSO, Astranis Space Technologies, NISPPAC Industry Spokesperson
Career Success
Impact Sessions
CSO Panel: The Surprising Path to Leadership Roles in Industrial Security
Dan Payne, ManTech • Lisa Reidy, General Dynamics •
Moving Into a Successful Career in Security Operations
Impact Breakouts – Track 1
Breakout Sessions: Track 1
This track is fundamentally about greater efficiency and effective approaches for running the programs that protect contracts and the classified & controlled unclassified information you’re responsible to safeguard – in other words, your business.
Join this track to get real-world advice and up to date information from NISPOM insiders and industrial security colleagues – adapt what you learn to your unique situation to keep your facility, programs and teams compliant and inspection-credible.
Facility & Program Execution Track
Impact Sessions
The Readiness Loop: Integrating Self-Inspection, CAP, and Audit into One System
Contract Security in Motion: From DD254 Intake to Audit-Ready Proof
New Ideas & Approaches for Your Security Awareness Program
Proving Control: How to Keep Classified and CUI Handling Audit-Ready When You Don’t Have an Army
Award-Ready for CMMC Phase 1: A Small & Mid-Size Contractor’s Action Plan
PERSEC That Survives Inspection: From Eligibility to Evidence
Cyber/IS Interfaces the FSO Actually Runs
Breakout
Sessions: Track 2
Impact Breakouts – Track 2
This track is fundamentally an interactive forum that platforms accomplished operational security leaders. Follow and participate in an integrated discussion of operations strategies, execution and real-world feedback loops.
Join this track to learn what does and doesn’t work for your colleagues and peers in other organizations. Get real, actionable insights and successful practices you can adapt to your own structure, culture, and current level of operational maturity.
Security Operations Leadership Track
Impact Sessions
Managing Security Across Multiple Sites and Programs Without Losing Control
From Inspection Prep to Continuous Readiness
Modernizing Security Oversight: Turning Data and Digital Tools Into Force Multipliers
Strategies to Build and Sustain a High-Performing Security Team
Trusted Workforce at Scale: Managing Continuous Vetting and SEAD-3 Across Thousands
Building an Enterprise Evidence COE: Turning Readiness Data into a Living System
Getting IT, HR and Program Teams on Board for Mutual Benefit
Unique Networking Experience
Make Valuable New Connections
Impact Networking
NSI Impact provides a unique environment (not too big, not too small) to connect with a diverse cross-section of the national security community from organizations large and small, in various roles and different stages of career and experience.
Technology & Service Providers
Top Solution Providers
Impact Sponsors & Exhibitors
The relaxed atmosphere at NSI IMPACT makes it easy to meaningfully connect with solution providers.
Ask questions, listen in, and learn without pressure so you can decide which solutions are likely to make your job easier and your work more efficient.
Free Resources &
Program Support
Free Resources & Program Support
Agency-to-Industry Outreach
Impact Security Awareness Fair
Connect with government agency teams who’s mission is to support your program.
You’ll get new ideas and discover free resources available to make your job easier and your program more successful.