CTMA Project Announcements

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to build an end-to-end workforce development solution for shipyard operations, beginning with attracting a capable and available workforce, providing accelerated training, ensuring placement fit and retention post training within the Maritime Industrial Base (MIB).

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an 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 Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to establish and demonstrate a unified, agile framework to assess, deploy, and sustain advanced energy solutions. The overall goal is to develop an interoperable framework built on automated regulatory alignment, lifecycle resilience planning and multi-sector coordination to provide a consistent, repeatable, and validated process for planning, maintenance and sustainment of advanced energy requirements.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to develop repeatable methods to assess water-related risks at specific military installations and identify mitigation strategies to improve sustainment of mission-critical systems. The overall goal is to develop a validated methodology that enables the assessment, anticipation, and mitigation of mission and operational impacts from water disruptions.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to advance the state of the art in novel diagnostic tools, technologies, and processes to rapidly identify maintenance failures and repair advanced electronic devices and cables in a manner that is cost effective, extends equipment useful life, and can be completed safely and efficiently by maintainers.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to advance the state-of-the-art in modeling and simulation tools and processes to optimize a Sharrow ship propeller design to improve ship performance by enhancing propulsion efficiency and reducing energy loss.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to advance the state of the art in novel diagnostic tools, technologies, and processes to rapidly identify maintenance failures and repair advanced electronic devices and cables in a manner that is cost effective, extends equipment useful life, and can be completed safely and efficiently by maintainers.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to prototype and experiment with a transformational autonomous logistics capability: a fully autonomous vessel designed to move shipping containers for essential supplies and equipment in oceanic, littoral, and coastal environments to meet the volume of supply requirements.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to improve maintenance and sustainment processes for specific legacy CNC machinery relied upon to produce mission-critical components that must meet exacting performance standards. The overall goal is to demonstrate the reduction in downtime and improved machine utilization that can be gained through integrating technologically improved critical machinery components that normally require long lead times to obtain.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to utilize state-of-the-art onshore semiconductor manufacturing technology to demonstrate radiation hardened IP building blocks on both GF 45nm and Intel 18A technology that can be used to increase performance and lifespan in mission critical microelectronics.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to develop a semi-autonomous heterogenous robotics platform to accelerate the repair of large castings and forgings. This robotic solution will utilize increasing levels of autonomy to augment and enhance DIB workforce productivity by more rapidly performing repair operations.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to improve operational availability of US ships and systems by providing critical infrastructure that simultaneously enhances prototype experiment and testing requirements focused on innovation and establishes counterfeit detection activities at multiple classification levels through the maintenance and sustainment supply chain.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to develop an enhanced set of tools and processes that provide an integrated approach to engineering and logistical tasks to improve mission readiness for DOD aircraft.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to develop new methods for industrial scale processing of various ferrous alloy systems (steels) at different levels of domestic maturity to improve manufacturability, engage the workforce, and perform R&D analysis of steels and their product forms.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to advance state-of-the-art in the development and testing of new metal alloys in ways that can reduce the overall costs and time required for this critical field.