CTMA Project Announcements

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.

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 an initiative to research, acquire, and validate an EFCO TDI CNC Boring and Facing Machine as a modern, multi-functional replacement for aging legacy machining equipment used in submarine hatch maintenance, seeking to transition the capability from concept to practical shipyard use.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to demonstrate onshore semiconductor manufacturing technology, government funded microelectronics (IP, chips, die, or modules), and a secure storefront model providing modular, scalable open access to integrated circuits and microelectronics. The overall goal is to ensure microelectronics for critical systems can continue to be sustained and maintained by replacing legacy technologies with state-of-the-art (SOTA) technologies.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to develop methods to rapidly and accurately characterize how new materials or manufacturing methods will perform outdoors anywhere in the world. The overall goal is to enable the proactive planning of corrosion mitigation practices and quickly characterize the improvement in corrosion performance through the introduction of AM materials.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to develop the processes, analytical tools, and strategic framework necessary to support a long-term, cross-service maintenance and sustainment strategy for commercial derivative propulsion systems. The overall goal is to identify and quantify opportunities to optimize maintenance, supply chain, and contracting strategies, and enable joint demand aggregation and contracting approaches that improve purchasing power and strengthen supplier stability.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to demonstrate how organizations can engineer, stabilize, and prepare critical water sources and facilities for state-of-the-art automated water purification and monitoring.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to demonstrate a manufacturing system for unmanned aerial systems (UASs) that utilizes advanced computational design and digital manufacturing technologies capable of rapidly converting mission requirements into production-ready technical data packages.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to establish an integrated support package for the F-35 enterprise, enabling the synchronization of readiness integration, aircrew flight equipment (AFE) sustainment, and sustainment execution. The overall goal is to establish methodologies that improve fleet management, predictive sustainment, and aircraft availability.

The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to fully integrate the B-1 Lancer into a digital engineering environment. This initiative will use the B-1 to provide a methodology that exemplifies how to build detailed digital twins for legacy vehicles where significant technical data is missing.