DLIF
Defense Logistics Innovation ForumUpdated 2026
MG founder Nino Marcantonio led the DTIP Future Innovations Forum (2019 to 2022) and the Defense Logistics Innovation Forum (2023 to 2025). A three-month forum that puts logistics and sustainment technology in front of the offices that own the requirement, including the NAVSEA PEO USC PMS 501 thread that originated the program in 2023.
Overview
What you get
Three months connecting logistics and sustainment innovators with NAVSEA and defense stakeholders.
Technology showcase
Constrained, mission-relevant agenda — not a trade-show booth.
Ecosystem navigation
So companies stop treating "the Pentagon" as one customer.
Facilitated introductions
Against mapped PEOs and program offices.
Roadmap and competitive context
What is already funded, what is still a gap.
Technology
Key areas of interest
Five domains drive the forum agenda.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Robotics & Autonomous Systems
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Operational Energy Resilience
- Quantum Sensing
September 2024
Achievements
Seventeen innovative capabilities delivered in a single year.
In September 2024, working with OUSD(A&S), DLIF delivered 17 innovative capabilities to the National Armaments Directors Innovation Working Group, specifically supporting the Ukrainian Contracting Working Group.
Leadership
Mr. Steve Moretto's qualifications
- BS in Industrial Engineering, University at Buffalo
- MS in Engineering Administration, Virginia Polytechnical Institute
- MS in National Resource Strategy, National Defense University
- Stanford Executive Program Graduate
- DAWIA Level 3 in Program Management; Systems Engineering; Production Management; Science & Technology Management; Business, Cost Estimating & Financial Management
Contact
Mr. Nino “Typhoon” Marcantonio
Founder, Marcantonio Global · DoW Senior Strategic Technology Advisor · Director, Defense Logistics Innovation Forum
202-631-8710 · nino@marcantonioglobal.com
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