AM Workshop 2025

Data Management and C3 Network Operations:

AdvM&R is fundamentally a digital manufacturing process that relies heavily on the digital thread. This group will explore bringing AdvM&R data to the Defense Industrial Base’s digital ecosystem from the CONUS-based industrial base, to the OIB, to in-theater fabrication cells, to allies and their industrial base. The group will focus on validation of a draft joint C3 network Capability Development Document (CDD) and draft required Key Performance Parameters (KPPs) for the DoD. Subtopics will include: Command, Control and Communications of globally-distributed advanced manufacturing capabilities through a Common Operating Picture, data repositories/exchanges, workflows, PM/cognizant engineering approvals, cybersecurity, the role of AI/ML, intellectual property, and training on use of enterprise systems. The group will participate in a wargame to ensure all potential urgent needs are accounted for within the planning to enable the AdvM&R Action Officer (AO) designated by the Joint Force Commander to execute a manufacturing response to a demand signal.

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AdvM&R Operations Sustainment:

Effective deployment of Joint expeditionary and in-theater AdvM&R capability can enhance operational agility, resiliency, and self-sufficiency. The group will look at operations and sustainment to validate a draft joint materiel solution capability description and employment concepts. Within the materiel solution capability description, the group will need to identify gaps and propose key performance parameters that incorporate requirements for all Services operating environment conditions and sustainment needs.

The group will consider the following important Subtopics:

• Joint Logistics Enterprise and DLA implementation, Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP), Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs), Intellectual Property (IP), materials, qual/cert, feedstock material (store/handling/transport) standards.
• Proliferation of AM systems – AM production capacity/availability visibility, enterprise feedstock materials, connection to data (CJCOP-O)
• Adaptive Deployment Packages/Exercises – Pre-positioning equipment, materials, data, and trained personnel.
• In-theater considerations to support operations: generation and use of material equivalency charts, infrastructure and logistics (power, space, transportation and handling, environmental, communications, operational (security, sustainment, personnel, feedstock/raw materials, waste handling), and strategic opportunities (mission, interoperability, scalability, legal).

This group will evaluate and wargame the capability options and the Joint standardized BDAR part categorization checklists (provided by the JAMWG) to account for any gaps in the planning and to enable the AdvM&R AO designated by the Joint Force Commander to execute a manufacturing response to a demand signal.

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DIB Surge Production Operations:

Operationalizing advanced manufacturing technology requires a look at how DoD does business. The AM Workshop has recognized this fact from the beginning. This group will look at surge operations with US Industry and collaboration with our allies and coalition partners. This group’s approach will require agile contracting, flexible business models, growing the supply chain, intellectual property rights, specially negotiated license rights, engineering change processes, life cycle sustainment plans, coalition agreements, agreements with and co-production with international partners, sustaining AM systems (materials, technical support, and training). The group will review a draft DoD contracting guidebook and identify gaps and propose solutions to support DoD Program Offices and its supply chain with special focus on supporting systems in a contested logistics environment. The group will participate in a wargame to ensure all potential urgent needs are accounted for within the guidebook to support Joint Force Commander in-theater operations. 

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