CTMA Project Announcements

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase initiative to advance the state-of-the-art in analysis, facilities modernization, advanced immersive simulations, and communication tools and processes to demonstrate new training solutions that optimize individual and crew performance and training system facilities and simulator availability.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to advance the state of the art in engineering support and planning tools, models, and processes to optimize and demonstrate a fair share sustainment model that enables equitable allocation of sustainment responsibilities among multiple stakeholders.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to advance the state of the art in Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and processes to improve technology integration, maintenance and sustainment activities, and resource and program decision making across various product lifecycles.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to advance and demonstrate a passive radio frequency identification (pRFID) capability that automates tool and property inventory tracking for a specific facility, thereby creating an actionable system for real-time tool and property accountability.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to demonstrate a digitized system that will optimize resources and throughput to achieve key performance metrics.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to build on the success of the first phase of this initiative, which established a proof-of-concept software solution for optimizing maintenance scheduling, resource allocation, and short/long-term planning.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to demonstrate a repeatable way to plan engine sustainment across contract costs, maintenance demand, and market conditions.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to demonstrate, in an operational maintenance and sustainment environment, that AI-enabled industrial base analysis can identify the parts, suppliers, and production constraints governing readiness for a defined platform group and convert that understanding into sourcing options a sustainment organization can act on.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to demonstrate and advance a portfolio of leap-ahead technologies toward domestic manufacturing and qualification readiness, while establishing shared test infrastructure that benefits the broader industrial base.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to operationalize a government-directed mission capable (MICAP) remediation process that uses modern digital engineering to clear out microelectronics obsolescence backlogs. Instead of relying on the old, expensive “build-test-fix” hardware cycle, this project will use virtual verification & validation (V&V) to get replacement designs right the first time.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to develop, integrate, and demonstrate advanced digital manufacturing and sustainment capabilities that result in an online-accessible, applicate program interface (API)-connected, cyber-assessed enterprise capability. The overall goal is to utilize advanced computational design and digital manufacturing technologies to rapidly convert mission requirements into production-ready technical data packages that enable more responsive advanced manufacturing workflows.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to assess the scalability of the benefits of a particular legacy aircraft’s integration into a digital engineering environment on production and the vendor base. Since this legacy platform has invested heavily in diverse digital engineering solutions, it makes an ideal platform to utilize as a surrogate to demonstrate the benefits of DE scalability for producing low quantity but high impact legacy systems.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to mature and transition advanced manufacturing technologies that improve production, qualification, and sustainment capabilities for DoW and commercial applications. The overall goal is to establish reusable manufacturing capabilities, qualification approaches, execution guidance, and workforce resources for broad adoption.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to demonstrate an innovative and repeatable approach for addressing the growing challenge of component obsolescence in legacy aircraft by developing and validating a replacement solution for a critical obsolete component on a specific aircraft platform.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMAinitiative to expand US based alloy processing options and creation of specialty plate alloys that offer weight reduction, cost savings, and field repairability for vehicle fleets. The overall goal is to demonstrate the fabrication of large steel plates with optimized heat treatment for the best combination of strength, hardness, and toughness at size for armor plate manufacturing and repair applications.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to develop, evaluate, and demonstrate an improved production process for critical safety webbings by enhancing current shuttle loom manufacturing processes. The overall goal is to demonstrate a modernized production process that results in at least a 50% reduction of production lead times and to establish a flexible manufacturing environment capable of rapidly scheduling short-run production cycles without extensive downtime.