CHANTILLY, Va. -- The Department of the Air Force Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management hosted an Industry Day May 9, 2025, here, in the latest installment of an ongoing campaign to keep vendors, suppliers, and subcontractors apprised of development and projected requirements of the DAF BATTLE NETWORK – a system-of-systems that galvanizes the department’s C3BM capabilities.
The event was broken into an unclassified morning session featuring a program overview with updates presented by Gordon Kordyak, PEO C3BM deputy, along with an engaging question and answer exchange with other C3BM leaders and acquisition officers. The session was followed by a closed door, classified portion in the afternoon that allowed for a more detailed conversation and information transfer.
With almost 150 companies represented at the event, C3BM Industry Day attracted a broad swath of commercial vendors, from globally recognized corporations to smaller one- and two-person operations.
Generically, the purpose of “industry days” is to foreshadow for the commercial sector where government requirements are headed, so that acquisition needs might be met earlier in time.
Kordyak has a more ambitious, albeit practical, vision for the C3BM Industry Day practice and the role the commercial sector can play in informing government technology development, while it’s still in its earliest phases.
“I want to create a feedback loop that allows industry to raise a red flag and warn us, when there’s an iceberg ahead and we’re not seeing it,” Kordyak said.
C3BM hosts two industry days per year and the next is tentatively scheduled for this fall.