CTMA
Project Announcements
January 8, 2025
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to validate the application of a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) logistical data exchange software capability that can be used when operating within a multinational environment.
January 8, 2025
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.
January 8, 2025
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to assess and demonstrate how AI and ML can be leveraged for business and data driven process management, models, dashboards, and reports.
January 3, 2025
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to clearly analyze the impacts of deferred maintenance to establish an understanding of the temporal relationship between un-serviced end items and subsequent component failures.
January 3, 2025
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to demonstrate highly electrified vehicle power distribution and protection components, to enable significant operational advances in highly electrified military vehicles.
December 17, 2024
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to assess the current ship repair acquisition strategy as well as the performance and capacity of the industrial base.
December 10, 2024
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to develop non fluorinated coatings for vehicle parts that could achieve similar/better performance to traditional coatings or metal plated parts.
December 10, 2024
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to assist DOD organizations in their digital transformation and sustainment operations efforts, so they can adapt and exceed the challenges presented by our nation’s near-peer competitors.
December 10, 2024
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to leverage advanced commercial digital engineering principles, tools, processes, and best practices to develop and demonstrate the redesign of critical vehicle components to make them lighter.
December 10, 2024
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to improve the sensitivity of light detection using the principle of cycling exciting process (CEP) to develop semiconductor imaging arrays capable of improving vehicle safety, operational performance and reduce maintenance and sustainment costs.
December 10, 2024
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.
December 10, 2024
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.
November 25, 2024
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.
November 19, 2024
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to leverage advanced knowledge graph and data mesh tools and processes to understand the complexities and interactions of product development artifacts and identify potential system integration discrepancies. Using an XM 30 Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle as a surrogate, this effort will provide a new innovative approach of implementing knowledge graph and data analytics tools to define a baseline set of metrics and combine and analyze large amounts of program data to identify technical and integration anomalies and disconnects.
November 19, 2024
The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to advance the state-of-the-art in automated metals testing and analysis methods and processes. Current technologies and processes make new material and process certification time consuming and costly. The overall goal of this initiative is to compress this testing time from months to weeks and in some cases from weeks to days.