CTMA

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to develop high-temperature resistant coatings to improve the safe operation and fire protection for EV and hydrogen-powered vehicles. The overall goal is to develop next-generation intumescent solutions that are melamine and borate-free while maintaining or even exceeding fire resistance performance.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to create a prototype portable manufacturing system capable of advanced manufacturing to augment maintenance and sustainment activities in locations where standard supply chains have unacceptably long lead times for delivery. The overall goal is to create a system that can allow for rapid production of parts that enable at least temporary repair while new replacement parts are in transit.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to develop a machine learning prediction tool that can optimize a tool path of Ambient Reactive Extrusion (ARE) material, which will be capable of minimizing deformation, improving dimensional stability, and enhancing overall quality of printed parts.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to identify and demonstrate variants of expeditionary maintenance and repair facilities (EMRF) that are effective in providing a low risk and cost-effective path to the advancement and demonstration of manufacturing support technology.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to investigate several different approaches to improve the safety of electric vehicle (EV) batteries through the development of high temperature adhesives and cutting-edge dielectric materials.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to improve the sustainability and/or productivity of coatings while maintaining the expected properties and performance for a variety of applications. This will be achieved with two key focus areas related to coatings technology: cure chemistry and binder design.

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 demonstrate cost efficient and high-performing maintenance and sustainment plans to enable the operation of current aircraft arresting system (AAS) capabilities and/or ancillary hardware associated with airport operations.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to advance the state of the art in systems safety and model-based systems engineering tools to explore new methods that will ensure complex hardware and software components and subsystems can be properly and safely integrated into a full autonomous system.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to introduce a new alternative strategy of developing high quality and long-lasting friction stir tools for joining high temperature materials. The overall goal will be to improve the performance, reduce the cost, and increase the service life of friction stir welding (FSW) tools.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to advance the state-of-the-art in analysis, systems engineering and integration tools and processes to develop, integrate, and test new immersive simulation solutions that will improve reliability, performance, and training quality for simulation training systems.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to demonstrate how data-driven decisions resulting from the application of a reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) approach can reduce unnecessary maintenance and costs during equipment refurbishment.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to demonstrate the benefits of scenario-based training through the development of a curriculum covering the functional level product support management and integration (PSM/I) tasks performed by a pre-selected logistics workforce.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to deploy an airfield foreign object debris (FOB) detection and collection system known as the Surgical+Systematic “SuSy” solution.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to adapt modern commercial best-in-class controllers to various systems on equipment to assess the benefits of replacing aging/last-generation controllers with today’s more universal technology. This initiative will develop control systems that are ruggedized, able to withstand harsh conditions as well as able to withstand near continuous use.