Project Announcement: Advanced Coatings for Edge Protection
The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to identify corrosion protection coatings that provide superior corrosion protection at the edges of materials. This will increase the life span...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Aviation Maintenance & Supply Ontology
The U.S. Armed Forces are partnering with industry and academia to understand the relationships between existing representative databases which are very large, containing complex and potentially...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Digital Manufacturing Integration for Supply Chain
The U.S. Army and Marine Corps are partnering with industry and academia to assess the capability of an innovative Campfire design environment using digital manufacturing and Additive Manufacturing to...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Additive Manufacturing Contracting Guidebook – Phase II
The U.S. Navy is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase project to create a singular comprehensive and organized document to lay out the various business models, contractual strategies,...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Ground Vehicle Maintenance Trainer
The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to advance the state of e-learning, cloud-based training, and networked training capabilities. The initiative is to develop a prototype Bradley...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Radiator Manufacturing Process Innovation
The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to implement manufacturing process innovations for copper-brass radiators. This project will evaluate and validate product reliability due to...
View ArticleProject Announcement: CBM+ Data Characterization for AI-Based Predictive...
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) is partnering with industry and academia to develop a solution that provides a replicable, standard process to support the assessment and...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Additive Manufacturing Processes for Design,...
The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to demonstrate how AM can improve efficiency and lower costs of traditional manufacturing processes by incorporating design for AM principles and...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Maintenance, Sustainment, and Fund Management Process...
The U.S. Armed Forces are partnering with industry and academia to demonstrate methods to improve the agility, efficiency, and effectiveness of financial and sustainment business practices for a global...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Supply Chain Management of Real-Time Data
The U.S. Navy is partnering with industry and academia to identify a process and methodology to gain insight into the supply chain for the critical subsystems and components within both the Aviation...
View ArticleNCMS, DoD Identify Significance of Intermittent Fault Testing
On 30 May 2019, the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) – Crane Division hosted the Department of Defense (DoD), Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD), with industry partners Universal Synaptics,...
View ArticleComposite experts from all over the world converge at Patuxent River Naval...
On June 4-6, 125 government and industry representatives involved in the composite industry or composite projects gathered to share best practices, technology innovations, and challenges. The Joint...
View ArticleAM Workshop ReCap
In an ongoing effort to facilitate additive manufacturing (AM) technology transition into the Department of Defense (DoD) maintenance and sustainment arena, over 200 representatives from the...
View ArticleNCMS Member Company heads to Portugal to Attend Prestigious Incubator
It’s important to de-paint and de-grease ships on a regular basis. It’s a labor-intensive and hazardous process. But NCMS member SurClean’s laser ablation technology has garnered a lot of attention...
View ArticleCybersecurity Survey Open to Industry, Help Guide DoE Policy
NCMS is working on a new cybersecurity initiative to advance the state-of-the-art in cybersecurity for the advanced manufacturing industry. Energy efficient advanced manufacturing is essential to our...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Corrosion Detection Under Coatings – Phase II
The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to continue a project that identifies current and emerging technologies employed in Non-Destructive Evaluation of coated surfaces. Phase II will...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Supply Item Logistics Capability Initiative – Phase III
The U.S. Navy is partnering with industry and academia on the third phase on an ongoing project to upgrade select business functions. This initiative will assess the capability of a...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Evaluating Software to Maximize Maintenance Operations
The U.S. Navy is partnering with industry and academia to demonstrate that the transition from legacy IT tools/systems to Single Page Applications (SPA) that can greatly improve maintenance,...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Electronic Component Risk Mitigation for Vehicle Programs
The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to identify design improvements for advanced computing processor assemblies that will lead to lower maintenance and sustainment costs. The project...
View ArticleFunding Deadline for New CTMA Projects is August 9
Important deadline!: The window for project funding through Commercial Technology for Maintenance Activities (CTMA)’s Cooperative Agreement is closing very soon. Funding must be received in house no...
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