CTMA Project Announcements

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to advance the state of modern plating solutions and manufacturing processes.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to establish a repeatable, scalable model for the fleet-wide integration of small unmanned surface vessels (sUSV) systems that address standardization of maintenance and sustainment procedures, and that develop a relevant and immersive training program with a responsive global logistics and support infrastructure.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to demonstrate how robotics and automation can improve maintenance, sustainment, and manufacturing operations for airplane depainting.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to advance the state-of-the-art in advanced materials and innovative manufacturing processes to enhance the durability, reduce maintenance costs, and improve operational readiness of transparent armor for commercial and military applications. The goal is to analyze potential alternative materials and manufacturing and testing procedures to identify transparent armor solutions that have no delamination issues.  

The US Department of Defense 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 Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA 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 US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to demonstrate the technologies and capabilities required to ensure a resilient domestic supply of electrodeposited (ED) copper foil, strengthening national security and reinforcing supply chain resilience.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative with an overarching goal of vastly improving legacy processes and facilities in a 3-stage approach starting with a deep understanding of the current processes necessary to bring products to market.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to advance the state of the art in advanced Metrology and Calibration (METCAL) technologies and processes to optimize complex non-commercial solutions to meet new weapons system/platform availability requirements.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to advance the state of the art in the advanced manufacturing and supply chain technologies and processes to demonstrate how reliability methods can help produce better products on schedule, within reduced costs, and require less maintenance.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to develop, enhance, evaluate and demonstrate a wide variety of decision-making tools and innovative maintenance and sustainment technologies including an examination and testing of modular and integrated solutions for maintenance and sustainment activities that will contribute to optimized maintenance, repair and overhaul processes.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to continue development and maturing of a comprehensive decision analysis tool to determine the most optimal and cost- effective solution to support a future modernized approach to overhaul a variety of ships.

The US Department of Defense (DOD) and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) are partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to conduct an Industry Collider Day (ICD) exercise to bring together experts from government, industry (large and small businesses) and academia to discuss potential solutions for improving global supply chain performance.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to advance the state of the art in automated processes and tools to optimize Field Sustainment Packages (FSPs) and improve the fielding, maintenance and sustainment of new vehicle systems.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to create and demonstrate analytical tools to assess spare parts for a specific legacy aircraft, identifying where pricing exceeds commercial comparables and where streamlined technical specifications could reduce costs without compromising capabilities.