CTMA Project Announcements

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to advance the state of the art in advanced dust collection and HVAC systems tailored for hazardous materials and integrating them into a depleted uranium testing and production facility.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to define and demonstrate a scalable model for deploying integrated expertise to address critical challenges in nuclear vessel disposition, including inactivation, defueling, decommissioning, and disposal processes.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to demonstrate the deployment, set-up and operations of a sample of next-generation X-Hangar system in various environmental conditions that incorporate improvements in durability, mobility, power efficiency, and signature management. The overall goal is to transition the mature X-Hangar prototype into a field-ready capability for operational use.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to develop a comprehensive, integrated framework that optimizes the full lifecycle management, performance assessment and demonstrations, and long-term sustainment of unmanned underwater systems (UsX).

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to explore and document how remote AM can innovate manufacturing processes for rapid response and recovery in disaster areas and contested environments, converting traditional “push” logistics into a sustainable and cost-effective on-demand “pull” model.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to advance the state-of-the-art in automated metals testing and analysis methods and processes. Current technologies and processes make new material and process certification time consuming and costly. The overall goal of this initiative is to compress this testing time from months to weeks and in some cases from weeks to days.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to advance the state-of-the-art in commercially operated, turnkey training and sustainment centers that integrate modern, modular infrastructure with realistic operational and sustainment environments designed to replicate high-risk conditions across industry and government use cases.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to advance the state of the art in advanced manufacturing tools and processes required to streamline the development of customized mobile storage units and workshops to support the fielding packages of multiple combat vehicles. Using specific vehicle toolkits as surrogates, the overall goal will be to demonstrate a new approach to manufacturing customized mobile maintenance storage units and workshops.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to establish and demonstrate the “digital backbone” capability required to enable smart manufacturing capabilities within a specific DoW facility. The overall goal is to advance and demonstrate an integrated digital capability within the facility that strengthens data continuity, connectivity, and usability across advanced manufacturing operations.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to demonstrate how a structured program management methodology, combined with data-driven decision-support tools and workforce transition resources, can preserve continuity and improve performance of strategic acquisition management for maintenance and sustainment during organizational restructuring.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to establish and demonstrate a repeatable, data-driven process for improving sustainment logistics by enhancing an AI/ML software tool with advanced mathematical algorithms.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to advance the development and demonstration of sphere brake technology. This project will continue the success of Phase I by modifying a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) advanced braking and suspension system, that has already been proven to be effective, on a sample set of newer commercial vehicles.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to help supply chain managers address, through data and documentation, efforts to improve the agility and resilience of the performance-based and strategic acquisition contracting efforts to support maintenance and sustainment activities with a multi-pronged approach.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to advance the state of the art in advanced Metrology and Calibration (METCAL) technologies and processes to optimize complex non-commercial solutions to meet new weapons system/platform availability requirements.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to assess the capability of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) Liquid Metal Printing (LMP) technology that does not require de-binding, sintering, and is powder-free, with the ability to support maintenance and sustainment requirements with reliable, repeatable, and timely repairing of parts.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to advance the state-of-the-art in analysis, facilities modernization, advanced immersive simulations, and communication tools and processes to demonstrate new training solutions that optimize individual and crew performance and training system facilities and simulator availability.