Dr. Steven G. Wax, performing the duties of assistant secretary of defense for science and technology, provides welcome remarks at 8 a.m. EDT; and Deputy Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer Margie Palmieri provides keynote remarks at 8:05 a.m. EDT; and other senior officials speak, at the National Defense Industrial Association's Emerging Technologies for Defense Conference & Exhibition at the JW Marriott, Washington, D.C.