CTMA

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to assess the current ship repair acquisition strategy as well as the performance and capacity of the industrial base.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to develop non fluorinated coatings for vehicle parts that could achieve similar/better performance to traditional coatings or metal plated parts.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to assist DOD organizations in their digital transformation and sustainment operations efforts, so they can adapt and exceed the challenges presented by our nation’s near-peer competitors.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to leverage advanced commercial digital engineering principles, tools, processes, and best practices to develop and demonstrate the redesign of critical vehicle components to make them lighter.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to improve the sensitivity of light detection using the principle of cycling exciting process (CEP) to develop semiconductor imaging arrays capable of improving vehicle safety, operational performance and reduce maintenance and sustainment costs.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to advance the state of the art in the advanced manufacturing and supply chain technologies and processes to demonstrate how reliability methods can help produce better products on schedule, within reduced costs, and require less maintenance.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to enable the transition of AM throughout the DOD and its industrial base, taking a holistic approach regarding the research of feedstock, advanced materials and processes, automation and controls, post-processing, and non-destructive testing (NDT) evaluation for the qualification, inspection, and assurance of parts being produced via AM.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to develop a semi-autonomous heterogenous robotics platform to accelerate the repair of large castings and forgings.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to leverage advanced knowledge graph and data mesh tools and processes to understand the complexities and interactions of product development artifacts and identify potential system integration discrepancies.  Using an XM 30 Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle as a surrogate, this effort will provide a new innovative approach of implementing knowledge graph and data analytics tools to define a baseline set of metrics and combine and analyze large amounts of program data to identify technical and integration anomalies and disconnects.

The US Department of Defense 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 Defense 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-prong approach.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to develop two methods to reduce the cost and schedule of manufacturing and sustaining parts for military ground vehicles that have traditionally been made using metal castings. These two methods will both utilize additive manufacturing (AM) but in different ways.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to leverage advanced digital engineering, modular open system architectures, software development tools, and rapid prototyping tools and processes to design and deliver “technology integrated demonstrators” for evaluation faster and with less risk then in the past.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to leverage advanced light source analysis tools and methods to improve material identification, determine cause(s) of failures in transparent materials, develop and test remedies and expand a material data base for various transparent and other associated materials.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to assess and demonstrate 1) the impact of an agile software solution that supports decision making through data analytics using AI/ML techniques and 2) their effect on modernization, maintenance and sustainment, and readiness of current and future operations.