CTMA Project Announcements

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.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to advance the state of the art in lean design and modeling, simulation and analysis (MS&A) tools and processes to assess current system design and identify opportunities for alternative designs and insertion of advanced technologies that support improved system performance and manufacturability, and reduce acquisition, maintenance, and sustainment costs over a product’s life cycle.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to assess how AI and ML can be leveraged to develop software solutions that provide situational awareness of operational demand and supply requirements.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to advance the state of additive manufacturing (AM) capabilities and program response to provide a more agile and flexible manufacturing solution for composite parts to eliminates long lead times for various identified parts.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to create and demonstrate an innovative and integrated training environment for Radar Navigational mission essential training.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to develop procedures to refurbish B1 stabilizers to increase existing repair capability until the refurbishment process is developed and validated.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase initiative to assess how AI and ML can be leveraged to develop software solutions that provide situational awareness of operational demand and supply requirements.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to advance the state-of-the-art in new environmentally compliant coating processes against existing SAE 2406 hard chrome plating and demonstrating improvements in performance.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to improve the efficiency of rotorcraft repair. The overall goal is to test and demonstrate new essential technologies and facility services that can perform their intended function at a specific dynamic component repair facility.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to investigate, review, and improve in-depth analysis of AI/ML efforts previously conducted at specific facilities.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to fulfill a required expertise in visual display systems (VDS) for trainers in specific units to capture and identify current deficiencies in the current VDS, and a path towards improving and upgrading them.

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMAinitiative to demonstrate how duplicating parts and assemblies through reverse engineering, technical data package development, prototyping, and performance validation can reduce the impact of parts obsolescence.