SOF Week
Special operations community and industry; strong capture and business-development venue.
- Dates
- May 3 to May 6, 2027
- Where
- Tampa, FL
- Cost
- Ticket $460 to $850. Full conference: non-profit/academia $460 early bird, $525 standard, $605 last chance; small business $555-700; industry $690-850. Page shows some inconsistent dates; confirm with organizer.
- Type
- Conference · Paid ticket
- Organizer
- SOF Week / USSOCOM-NDIA
- Last checked
- October 23, 2026 against the event’s own site
Official site and registration
Cheaper ways in: Full-time student $125; exhibition-only $190-275; active duty military, US and partner nation government, and credentialed media are complimentary.
Speaking opportunities
Speakers are invited
Speaker/topic recommendations were due Oct 2, 2026 via form.
Who goes
Roles and segments the organizer or our research tag this event for.
Segments: Defense and government contracting, Military transition and veterans, Cybersecurity for defense
Roles: capture manager, defense program manager, transitioning service member, cleared cybersecurity engineer
The field it serves: Aerospace & Defense
- Verified open jobs
- about 20,717
- Typical posted salary
- $127,000 a year (middle half $103,000 to $162,000)
- Entry or early-career level
- 29% of openings
- Employment, year over year
- +0.3% in manufacturing, the closest BLS sector
Source: NextChapter job data, jobs verified live in the last 7 days.
Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 1,279 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.
Source: NextChapter job data: level read from the full posting, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.
Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, seasonally adjusted payroll employment, September 2026.
Full Aerospace & Defense snapshot: jobs, pay, layoffs and conferences
Employers at this conference
Exhibitors, sponsors and speakers we have found on the event’s own lists.
- Accelint Sponsoring 2026
- Accrete Sponsoring 2026
- AeroVironment Sponsoring 2026
- AEVEX Sponsoring 2026
- Air Center Helicopters Sponsoring 2026
- Akima Sponsoring 2026
- Amazon Kuiper Sponsoring 2026
- Anduril Sponsoring 2026
- Applied Intuition Sponsoring 2026
- Astranis Sponsoring 2026
- Axonius Sponsoring 2026
- Bank of America Sponsoring 2026
- Battelle Sponsoring 2026
- Bombardier Defense Sponsoring 2026
- CACI Sponsoring 2026
- Capgemini Sponsoring 2026
- Carahsoft Sponsoring 2026
- Cellebrite Federal Solutions Sponsoring 2026
- Deltek Sponsoring 2026
- Draganfly Sponsoring 2026
- EchoMAV Sponsoring 2026
- Google Public Sector Sponsoring 2026
- Lockheed Martin Sponsoring 2026
- Nightwing Sponsoring 2026
- Redcat Sponsoring 2026
- Skydio Sponsoring 2026
- Skylotec Sponsoring 2026
- Textron Sponsoring 2026
Read from the event’s own pages: sofweek.org.
Industries and functions
Where it is and who it is for
Held in Tampa, FL. Local jobs, employers, layoffs and other conferences nearby are on the place pages.
Past and planned editions
- 2027: May 3, 2027 to May 6, 2027, Tampa, FL
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