Project Announcement: Improved Hardware Sustainment through Solid State...
The U.S. Armed Forces are partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to expand the understanding of Cold Spray capabilities to repair more parts for the aerospace and ground...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Long-Term Sustainment of Aging Aircraft Systems Phase II
The U.S. Navy is partnering with industry and academia to develop a streamlined long-term sustainment strategy extending the life of aging aircraft and critical systems to maintain the viability of the...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Improving Medical Equipment Maintenance and Sustainment...
The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to develop an integrated training simulator based on the actual hardware and systems associated with a new ground MEDEVAC vehicle that will stand...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Marine Propulsion Drivetrain Digital Twin to Support...
The U.S. Navy is partnering with industry and academia to demonstrate the use of best practice digital analytics for ship machinery health monitoring for a class of ship having extensive historical...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Maintenance Sustainment Strategy Implementation – Phase II
The U.S. Air Force is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to explore alternative options of maintenance and sustainment strategies to increase capabilities, reduce...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Clean Mobile Energy Storage System to Reduce Maintenance
The U.S. Navy is partnering with industry and academia to create a Mobile Energy Storage System (MESS) that combines power generation with energy storage all in a package that can be easily and safely...
View ArticleSources Sought: Advanced Diagnostics and Prognostics Systems for Combat Vehicles
NCMS is assisting the U.S. Army in seeking an industry partner(s) that have concepts and/or technologies to design and develop advanced maintenance systems for Army Ground Combat Vehicle and Robotic...
View ArticlePandemic Adaptive Supply Chains: A Future-Proof Approach
NCMS President and CEO, Lisa Strama co-authored the following article with partners from the University of Texas at San Antonio, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Stanford Research Institute...
View ArticleNCMS congratulates the finalists for the 2020 CTMA Technology Competition
It was a difficult decision with over 50 excellent submissions, but the panel of DOD judges have chosen the finalists for the 2020 CTMA Technology Competition. Each finalist will make a 10-minute...
View Article2020 Maintenance Innovation Challenge Accepting Submissions Now
The 2020 Maintenance Innovation Challenge (MIC) is the perfect venue to showcase revolutionary and evolutionary innovations to the DOD maintenance community. The Military Services, Defense agencies,...
View ArticleFunding Deadline for New CTMA Projects is August 14
Important deadline: The window for receiving FY19 funding via the CTMA’s Cooperative Agreement is closing soon. Funding must be received in house no later than Friday, August 14, 2020 in order to...
View ArticleMeet Dr. Cosima Boswell-Koller
Unfamiliar with the greater Detroit metropolitan area, Dr. Cosima Boswell-Koller was doubtful that she would find a job in the Ann Arbor area that combined her diverse educational background in the...
View ArticleJoint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) Gets International Attention
JAIC is the DOD’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Center of Excellence providing a critical mass of expertise to help the DOD harness the game-changing power of AI. To help operationally prepare for AI,...
View ArticleNew Synapse Application Introduced at Latest Joint Intermittent Test Working...
Recently NCMS member Universal Synaptics unveiled its new software application, Synapse, to the Joint Intermittent Test (JIT) Working Group. This software is an upgrade enhancement to the Intermittent...
View ArticleIntroducing the NCMS Digital Proving Grounds
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View ArticleThe Sarcos Guardian XO Full-Body Powered Exoskeleton Wins 2020 CTMA...
Ann Arbor, MI—The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) is pleased to announce that the Sarcos® Guardian XO® Full-Body, Powered Exoskeleton won the 2020 Commercial Technologies for...
View Article2020 Maintenance Innovation Challenge Accepting Submissions
As part of the DOD Maintenance Symposium, the Maintenance Innovation Challenge (MIC) is an important venue to present innovative technologies in front of a large cross-section of DoD decision–makers....
View ArticleMeet Kyle Considine
Being deployed with the U.S. Army over his 17–year career, Kyle Considine would be away from home for months at a time. When the time came to find a new position, he was looking to leverage his...
View ArticleAM Training in Marine Corps Builds Future Workforce
One of the greatest ironies of the recession of the mid–2000s was many skilled manufacturing jobs, including those in additive manufacturing (AM), remained unfilled. During a period when unemployment...
View ArticleRECAP – 2020 AM Workshop
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a game-changing technology for the DOD which is why more than 180 government, industry, and academia AM experts registered for the 2020 AM Workshop hosted by the Office...
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