CTMA Project Announcements

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to leverage current best practices across the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) to create and demonstrate a standardized, executable process to enable new commercial partners to operate in secure environments. The primary objective of this effort is to demonstrate the ability of commercial industries to utilize DIB security practices to elevate commercial security standards.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to demonstrate a roadmap for utilizing a specific domestic semiconductor foundry as a source of next-generation radiation-hardened microelectronics. This initiative will establish a defined path toward ITAR and CUI compliance, a supporting infrastructure for secure data handling and design-to-fab workflows, and a foundation the foundry can build on toward full Trusted foundry status.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to demonstrate the that nucleated foam technology can achieve better aircraft engine cleaning results than traditional methods while using fewer maintenance man-hours (MMHs). Additionally, this initiative seeks to continue performance data collection to statistical significance, enabling the transition from schedule-based washing to condition-based, predictive maintenance.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to establish the processes, analytical tools, and decision framework required to proactively manage the diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages (DMSMS) risk of a specific aircraft platform. The technical implementation goal is to deliver a repeatable, data-driven construct that connects component-level obsolescence and supply risk to aircraft availability and mission capability.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to advance the state of the art in Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA), engineering and design tools, and dual-use smart display technologies to develop a new common display panel solution that increases maintainability and interoperability across different vehicle variants with diverse software applications and communications systems.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to rapidly advance integrated photonics technologies and the ecosystem required to viably manufacture them to a level of maturity that can be demonstrated and applied to address communication and operational issues in an RF-denied environment.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to demonstrate modernized shipyard operations by creating a unified digital ecosystem that standardizes infrastructure, equipment and procedures across facilities.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to demonstrate how aging equipment such as CNC machines can be analyzed and upgraded with new technology components to enhance performance and reliability.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to build a pilot version of a hull inspection and repair robot capable of in-theater inspection of a vessel’s hull for damage and performance of repairs.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to repurpose the Honeywell precision far target locator (pFTL) system to Honeywell’s inertial navigation system known as the Tactical Advanced Land Inertial Navigator (eTALIN) system in order to enable counter unmanned aerial system (CUAS) engagement capability for a common remotely operated weapon station (CROWS) in a GPS denied environment.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to complete the design, fabrication, and hardware characterization of the mixed-signal application-specific integrated circuit (MS-ASIC) V2 and V3, enabling the low-cost chip-scale atomic clocks (LC CSAC) to achieve its size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) targets for both military and commercial deployment.

The US Department of War 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.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to utilize state of the art (SOTA) commercial technologies to establish domestically manufactured radiation-hardened processors to improve the quality and supply of these critical inputs to commercial, aerospace, and defense markets.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to establish an integrated capability that accelerates the generation of decision-quality engineering data for producing critical forged and cast components for engines, industrial power generation systems, heavy machinery, maritime propulsion systems, and large-diameter piping.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to leverage commercial industry best practices, tools, and emerging technologies to refine and optimize processes that improve organizational production, maintenance, and sustainment outcomes at specific shipyards.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to leverage innovative technologies to modernize legacy systems and enable faster, more accurate predictive analytics that support the government sponsor’s maintenance and sustainment objectives in alignment with Combat Surge Readiness goals.