Project Announcement: Size, Weight, and Power-Cooling (SWaP-C) Reduction by...
The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to redesign a common LRU for the fire control system of a combat vehicle system that will take up less volume, use less electrical power, require...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Adoption of Emerging Sustainment Technologies – Phase III
The U.S. Marine Corps is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phased initiative to assess the capability and understanding of proactively addressing the challenges associated with embracing...
View ArticleProject Announcement: High-Power Electrical Distribution Unit Redesign for...
The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to advance the state of design for high-power electrical distribution and motion controls to improve reliability and reduce lifecycle costs of...
View ArticleSources Sought: Industry Seeks Ceramic Additive Manufacturing Partner
Nahsai, an Ann Arbor-based advanced materials start-up focused on aerospace and defense applications, has patented materials and processes to tailor the electrical properties of specific ceramic...
View ArticleNational Academy of Engineering Elects 87 Members and 18 International Members
NCMS Board Member Thomas R. Kurfess elected to The National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an...
View ArticleSave the Date: Additive Manufacturing Workshop June 23-24, 2020
Additive manufacturing is sweeping through the DOD and disrupting how maintenance and sustainment is accomplished. This model workshop is a follow-up to the Business Model Workshop held in 2019. The...
View ArticleRegister now for the NCMS Technology Showcase at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard
The 2020 NCMS Technology Showcase at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, June 10, 2020, is a rare opportunity to introduce innovative technology to key decision–makers and end-users. This event, held on base,...
View ArticleCTMA—DOD’s Sustainment Innovation Accelerator celebrated at Partners Meeting
The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) and the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense for Materiel Readiness are pleased to announce the annual CTMA Partners Meeting to be...
View ArticleCTMA Technology Competition Showcases Innovative Technology to Key...
In conjunction with the CTMA Partners Meeting, the CTMA Technology Competition is the perfect venue to present innovative maintenance and sustainment technologies to a cross-spectrum of DOD...
View ArticleNCMS introduced innovative technologies at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard
NCMS hosted another Technology Showcase at the U.S. Naval Shipyard at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, January 23-24, 2020. The event introduced new and innovative technologies, products, and processes that could...
View ArticleAir Force to Transition Munitions System Demonstrated Through a CTMA Initiative
The U.S. Air Force needed a single authoritative system to manage safety, security reliability, maintenance, availability and accountability of a $25B conventional munitions stockpile due to decreased...
View ArticleOpportunity for Industry: Naval Undersea Warfare Center-Division Keyport...
Purpose The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) – Division Keyport (NUWCDIVKPT) (https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NUWC-Keyport/) is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) as part...
View ArticleEvaluating Software Solutions to Maximize Maintenance Operations – Phase II
The U.S. Navy is partnering with industry and academia in a multi-phase initiative to demonstrate the transition from legacy IT tools/systems to Single Page Applications (SPA) to improve maintenance,...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Maintenance Planning Tool Development for Fuel and...
The U.S. Marine Corps is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase initiative to provide a concept for fuel management and tracking that offers visibility of fuel stores and demand in...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Industrial Business Reform – Phase II
The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to demonstrate innovative, cost effective solutions to address agile and efficient business operations, auditability, enterprise risk and data...
View ArticleProject Announcement: F-35 Joint Program Office Digital War Room – Phase IV...
The F-35 Joint Program Office is partnering with industry and academia to integrate data to answer simple questions about components causing maintenance or production issues such as: where does the...
View ArticleCTMA Partners Meeting Postponed; Competition On As Scheduled
Given the escalating concerns around COVID-19, NCMS has made the decision to postpone the CTMA Partners Meeting scheduled for May 5th-7th, 2020 in Quantico, VA. Our main priority is the health, safety...
View ArticleNCMS Awarded Fourth Consecutive CTMA Cooperative Agreement Contract
Ann Arbor, MI — The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) announced today that it has been awarded a fourth consecutive Commercial Technologies for Maintenance Activities (CTMA) Cooperative...
View ArticleNCMS Responds to COVID-19 Pandemic
The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) is closely following developments regarding COVID-19 and evaluating all of our activities to determine the best course of action. The health and...
View ArticleARL Requests Support for COVID-19 Response
The Army Research Laboratory is soliciting ideas from the NCMS community for additive manufacturing parts to help hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Initial topics of interest include respirators...
View Article