Atlas Copco Tools & Assembly Systems (ACTA) is a global leader in industrial assembly solutions, specializing in smart, connected tools and engineered systems that drive productivity, quality, and sustainability. Our portfolio includes advanced tightening tools, torque and angle analyzers, error-proofing systems, machine vision, and software platforms that support Industry 4.0 transformation.

At our North American Applications Center (APC) in Auburn Hills, Michigan, we design and deliver custom-engineered solutions tailored to the unique needs of defense, aerospace, automotive, and heavy manufacturing sectors. Our high-performance teams collaborate with customers to develop ergonomic, data-driven systems that improve operator safety, reduce rework, and ensure traceable quality.

ACTA serves a wide range of government and defense customers, including U.S. Navy shipyards, depots, and prime contractors. We are ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, and 17025 certified, and our PF8000 controller platform supports advanced analytics, remote diagnostics, and predictive maintenance.

Problem Statement:

• Manual assembly processes lack traceability and repeatability
• High rework rates due to inconsistent torque application
• Limited visibility into tool performance and joint quality
• Ergonomic risks in shipyard maintenance environments
• Need for data-driven maintenance and predictive diagnostics

Avathon harnesses proven AI technology to bolster military readiness, improve decision advantage, and optimize defense operations. Backed by a decade of successful commercial deployments, we provide practical, readiness-focused solutions to upskill maintainers and leverage predictive analytics, partner with the armed forces to enhance domain awareness and decision making, and enable modernization of the defense industrial base by optimizing capital equipment uptime, predicting engine failures, and strengthening supplier quality control through advanced technologies like deep learning NLP, generative AI, and computer vision.

Problem Statement:

Declining mission-capable rates, skilled labor shortages, and increasingly complex systems are straining military maintenance operations. Slow workflows, parts delays, and limited supply chain insight degrade readiness and overload personnel – especially those with less experience.

BG Workforce Solutions is a Lexington, KY based leader in workforce modernization and digital transformation. We provide the Department of Defense and Allied Partner Nations with innovative enterprise software tools and training solutions needed to build and sustain skilled technical workforces.

Problem Statement:

• The Defense Industrial Base suffers from a severe shortage of skilled labor across critical trades and disciplines.
• Highly experienced Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) retire or leave, taking their knowledge with them.
• It takes too long to upskill new entrants to the workforce, and legacy training methods are inefficient.
• Workers are challenged to find and access critical information at the point of work – they demand capable knowledge support tools.
• Organizations have difficulty identifying, tracking, and developing skills and capabilities within their workforce.

In today’s dynamic environment, effective supply chain management is crucial to achieving our nation’s strategic objectives. Blue Yonder Defense Solutions (formally known as One Network Enterprises) is leading the way in revolutionizing supply chain operations and the organic industrial base by focusing on a single solution for multi-tier and multi-enterprise collaboration. This includes areas such as supplier inventory, forecast, capacity, schedule, and order collaboration. Our approach leverages seamless integration and a robust foundational supply chain network to enhance efficiency, agility, resilience, and sustainment.

Our solutions provide real-time visibility into multi-tier supplier inventory, enabling better stock management and reducing excess inventory. By facilitating collaborative forecasting, we align suppliers and manufacturers on-demand projections, reducing errors and enhancing demand planning accuracy. Blue Yonder Defense Solutions tools enable collaborative capacity planning, allowing DOD activities to identify bottlenecks and optimize production schedules. Our platform enhances scheduling and order management, reducing lead times and improving order accuracy through synchronized collaboration.

Problem Statement:

In today’s dynamic environment, the Defense Organic Industrial Base faces significant challenges in achieving efficient and resilient supply chain operations. The lack of a unified solution for multi-tier and multi-enterprise collaboration hampers the ability to maintain optimal stock levels, align supply with demand, and ensure timely order fulfillment to meet mission requirements. This fragmentation leads to inefficiencies, increased costs, and reduced responsiveness to warfighter demands.

Boston Engineering is a leader in sustainable digital transformations, implementing innovative technologies, and developing road maps to solve tomorrow’s business challenges. Leveraging the latest in emerging technologies, such as Sustainment Robotics (SR), Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Internet of Things (IoT), and more, Boston Engineering helps you bring innovation to bear on your mission. Whether leading ideation, developing proofs of concept, building consensus, providing training, or handling post implementation support, simply Image the Possibilities and Boston Engineering will expand your capabilities to innovate.

Problem Statement:

• Maintenance and sustainment of our weapons systems is being challenged by shrinking experienced workforce and increases in our national retirement rate.
• Nascent workers require training and mentoring before achieving the proficiency of highly skilled workers
• Nascent workers often experience work package execution issues and must leave the work site to seek advice or help with decisions enabling continued work execution
• Many maintenance requirements are discovered only after a weapon system reaches its destination. Knowledge gathering in route to the shipyard is not captured well today.

FARO is the leading global source for 3D measurement, imaging and realization technology. For 40 years, FARO has provided industry-leading technology solutions that enable customers to quickly and easily measure their world and then use that data to make smarter decisions faster. FARO continues to be a pioneer in bridging the digital and physical worlds through data-driven reliable accuracy, precision and immediacy. FARO’s global headquarters is located in Lake Mary, Florida. The company also has a technology center and manufacturing facility located in Exton, Pennsylvania, containing research and development, manufacturing and service operations.

Problem Statement:

• In order to stay competitive, you need to meet increasingly strict quality standards — and do this as cost-effectively as possible. You can’t invest in a quality control or inspection solution only to find out that it doesn’t perform as you expected, or that it requires significant changes to your team’s workflow, skills or software.​
• Traditional Bridge style CMMs and other stationary measurement methods do not alone provide the mobility and versatility required by today’s manufacturing standards.

HYTORC is the most trusted name in the industry. HYTORC makes industrial bolting safer and simpler. With 50 years of experience focused entirely on developing the highest quality industrial bolting systems and tools, from steel mills and mining equipment to refineries, power plants, and wind turbines; we have developed solutions for every bolting application imaginable. For custom projects, our highly experienced engineering team is at your service to design the most efficient solution for your job with simple, safe, and economical pricing in mind. We are consistently improving upon existing products, and developing new tools, based on feedback from the people that use our tools every day. Our latest product line features patented industry-firsts like hands-free operation to keep tool operators at a safe distance from the application, onboard documentation systems to provide job accountability and assurance, and industry-leading bolt load accuracy to reduce nut loosening and joint failure.

Problem Statement:

Many companies have Bolting Issues:

• Torquing, Tightening, Specifications to be met.
• Incorrectly tightening or torquing bolts can cause fingers to be severed.
• Over-Torquing bolts can cause substrates to weaken and crack
• Under-Torquing allows bolts to come loose and wreak havoc
• Incorrect maintenance procedures lead to equipment loss,
• Loss of time and manpower.

Luna Labs USA solves complex technical challenges and translates innovation into real-world impact. The company works with government agencies, defense organizations, and commercial customers to develop high-performance products at the intersection of materials science, systems engineering, and biotechnology.

Luna Labs combines deep technical expertise, state-of-the-art equipment, and an interdisciplinary approach to define problems clearly, test new approaches, and iterate quickly toward practical solutions. With extensive experience supporting government-driven research and development as well as serving non-government entities, the company moves technologies from early-stage concepts to field-ready solutions.

Guided by a vision to advance healthcare, safeguard the environment, and protect critical infrastructure and personnel, Luna Labs focuses on advanced materials and surface protection, corrosion monitoring and asset integrity, biomedical technologies, and human performance systems. The company brings the agility of a small business and the capabilities of a larger organization to engineer, test, and deploy solutions that perform in customers’ most demanding environments.

Problem Statement:

• Operational and safety risks: Corrosion threatens the readiness and safety of aircraft, vessels, infrastructure, and equipment.
• Variable corrosion in moving assets: Ships and aircraft experience corrosion accumulation based on usage, making consistent monitoring essential.
• Need for quantifiable data: Condition-based maintenance requires reliable, measurable corrosion data for both bare and coated alloys.
• Ineffective traditional methods: Current corrosion monitoring is labor-intensive, inconsistent, and often misses early signs of deterioration.
• Challenges with coated surfaces: Quantifying corrosion under coatings is difficult and typically relies on destructive testing methods.

PartWorks LLC delivers field-deployable technologies for digital MRO, repair validation, and aircraft structural enhancement. Originally conceived to address the challenges of repairing structural fastener holes in hybrid materials subject to galvanic corrosion, our platform integrates point-of-action data acquisition, geometry capture, and component traceability to enable full repair lifecycle documentation and structural hole repair implementation.

The RepĀR™ system generates instantaneous local coordinate systems without external trackers, allowing fast, accurate capture of as-found geometry. The PrecisionFx tool supports high-force, high-speed bushing installation with real-time digital logging of critical process parameters—ensuring traceability and validation at the point of action. TitanLoc bushings emulate shrink-fit performance and have demonstrated superior average push-out resistance, improving long-term durability. StrataX bushings incorporate engineered residual stress profiles that mitigate crack growth and extend service life. EdgeMax repairs corroded or damaged fastener holes using geometry-preserving methods that maximize edge margin retention, enhancing structural reliability. These integrated solutions serve both defense and commercial aerospace customers who require fast, reliable, and digitally traceable repairs across global maintenance operations.

Problem Statement:

• Geometry loss and overdrilling reduce edge margin during repairs
• Fatigue cracks and corrosion undermine structural joints
• Manual repair records lack consistency and retrievability
• Current tooling lacks integrated digital traceability

Technology Solution Statement:

• EdgeMax repairs corroded holes while preserving edge geometry
• StrataX mitigates fatigue with compressive stress-engineered bushings
• PrecisionFx enables real-time digital validation of installations
• TitanLoc enhances reliability with high push-out resistance

Combining the real and the digital worlds makes it possible to seamlessly integrate the entire value chain from design to realization, while optimizing with a continuous flow of data. A true Digital Enterprise is able to harness the unlimited power of data by gaining valuable insights to make fast and confident decisions – and to create best-in-class products through efficient production.

Problem Statement:

Aging infrastructure, inefficient layout and old equipment are contributing to longer maintenance times, increased costs and reduced fleet readiness.

Customer driven manufacturer’s representative organization, providing solutions for world class manufacturers in nearly every aspect of test and measurement.

Problem Statement:

Aged, legacy, obsoleted test and design hardware.

Sunrez Corp, founded in 1986, specializes in the formulation and application of ultraviolet (UV) cure composite materials. These single component systems- available as resins, putties, or pre-impregnated fiberglass repair patches- remain workable indefinitely and cure only upon exposure to UV light. This enables easy handling across a wide range of temperatures, humidity levels, and field conditions, followed by rapid, on-demand curing.

Sunrez Corp has focused on infrastructure rehabilitation efforts and has led the way in UV cure resin systems in both Cure-In-Place-Pipe (CIPP) and the Wind energy sector. Sunrez has increasingly applied its knowledge of composite materials, coatings, and fabrication technologies to programs in support of the US military that range from increased weather resistance, lightweight armoring materials and down-range. Our formulations are no VOC, no HAP and non-flammable for improved worker safety, easy shipping and reduced emissions.

NAVSEA has evaluated Sunrez UV cure materials and issued drawing NAVSEA 630-9014545 “Repair Patch Composite Ultra-Violet Cured, Installation and Details” to guide proper handling and installation under the Phase 1 drawing package. Additional drawing packages and expanded use cases are expected to be released soon.

Sunrez materials provide end users with a versatile solution for repairing corrosion, cosmetic damage, cracks, sealing, pipe wrap, bulkhead repair, and more. They bond effectively to a wide range of substrates including aluminum, steel, copper-nickel, composites, and some plastics.

Problem Statement:

Coast guard assets experience damage and corrosion and fast, straightforward repairs not requiring hot work and corrosion protection are needed

Synergy BIS (Synergy) brings over 20 years of experience supporting mission-critical initiatives for U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and other federal organizations. Synergy employs more than 600 highly credentialed professionals, with 436 certifications across leading technology domains and platforms. Synergy is recognized for its deep expertise in agile software development, enterprise system modernization, secure cloud architecture, DevSecOps, and innovative digital transformation underpinned by rigorous quality standards including ISO 9001:2015, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, and CMMI Level 3. As a trusted partner to the USCG, Synergy delivers scalable, resilient solutions aligned to complex mission needs.

Problem Statement:

Federal organizations rely on aging systems, manual processes, and disconnected tools to manage maintenance, logistics, and engineering activities. These environments limit visibility across the software development lifecycle and increase the effort required to maintain accuracy, security, and compliance.

As operational demands continue to grow amid siloed data and fragmented workflows, the result is delayed decision-making, increased technical debt, increased costs from rework and inefficient manual processes, as well as reduced agility in responding to evolving priorities.