2024 Maintenance Innovation Challenge
The Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense – Materiel Readiness is pleased to announce the return of the Maintenance Innovation Challenge (MIC) with live presentations from the finalists at the DOD Maintenance Symposium in Salt Lake City, UT, December 10-13, 2024. Submissions will be accepted through Sunday, October 6th, 2024.
About the Competition
The DOD Maintenance Innovation Challenge (MIC) competition is open to new innovations that include novel technologies, unique collaborative business relationships, resourcing strategies, business processes, production processes, and any other transformative capability that has the potential to make maintenance and sustainment more agile, effective, efficient, and affordable. The review and selection process provides great exposure as the top five innovations and the final winner are determined by senior DOD sustainment leaders.
Finalists will present their solutions in person at the always popular and heavily attended MIC breakout session at the 2024 DOD Maintenance Symposium. Audience members at the MIC session will have the opportunity to select the MIC People’s Choice Award winner from the finalists based on their presentations.
The online submission process involves only a 500 words or less abstract (Outline provided), a photo or graphic of the capability, and a short demonstration video no longer than 3 minutes. Submissions are encouraged from the government, academia, and industry. The submission period is now open! The deadline for entering is Sunday, October 6th, 2024.
