CTMA Project Announcements
November 11, 2025
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to reduce the impacts of counterfeit parts and products on business operations and viability. The overall goal is to provide critical infrastructure that enhances prototype experiment and testing requirements focused on counterfeit detection activities.
November 11, 2025
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to advance the engineering processes and tools needed to safely design, install, operate, and assess prototyping and advanced manufacturing equipment. The goal will be to accommodate the need for disposable or attritable systems in an existing research and development facility.
November 11, 2025
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to provide research support and actionable recommendations to an Office of Industrial Base Policy, closing critical knowledge gaps and establishing a framework for effective future policy design and implementation.
October 24, 2025
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to demonstrate how integrating real-time assessment data with the Sailor Self-Sufficiency Ecosystem (SSES) strengthens training, competency tracking, and sustainment outcomes for repairs, material upgrades and corrosion assessments.
October 24, 2025
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to demonstrate how integrating real-time assessment data with the Sailor Self-Sufficiency Ecosystem (SSES) technology strengthens training, competency tracking, and sustainment outcomes for corrosion prevention and mitigation processes.
October 23, 2025
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to make aircraft landings on aircraft carriers safer and more reliable.
October 23, 2025
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to enhance small watercrafts research, development, test, evaluation, acquisition, maintenance and repair ecosystem.
October 22, 2025
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to expand the capacity of the Workshops for Warriors’ Welding Program to enable the training of more welding professionals.
October 22, 2025
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to advance the state of the art in agile software development, collaborative environments, and modeling and simulation tools and processes to update and sustain aviation maintenance commercial and government off the shelf (COTS/GOTS) software applications, so they are more reliable and resilient against cyber threats.
October 22, 2025
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to demonstrate how commercial-off-the-shelf technology can be adapted to public sector workflows to reduce administrative burden, improve production visibility, and support scalable modernization. The industry team will prototype and validate the use of Floor2Plan shipyard operations software at a public shipyard.
October 22, 2025
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to conduct research and planning to define the technical, infrastructure, and safety requirements for a potential forward-deployed, containerized energetics production system that comprises six 20-foot modules.
October 22, 2025
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 qualification and testing of advanced coatings through digital models.
October 22, 2025
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to bolster the advanced manufacturing capacity in the INDOPACOM region. The overall objective is to demonstrate, develop, and improve prototype manufacturing, casting, forging, maintenance, repair, & overhaul capabilities and facilities in the region.
October 22, 2025
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to advance facility-level energy infrastructure in the INDOPACOM region to establish agile, reliable, affordable, and resilient electrical power to support advanced manufacturing, maintenance, and sustainment operations.
October 13, 2025
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to develop low-cost isotropic and mesophase pitch-derived synthetic graphite and battery anode-based materials.
October 13, 2025
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to introduce advanced technologies into rotorcraft maintenance and sustainment that will improve the efficiency of rotorcraft repair. The overall objective is to establish the specific needs to improve immediate sustainment operations and shape the design of future maintenance infrastructure.




