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Project Announcement: Long Term Tire Storage – Phase IV

The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to evaluate tire degradation challenges over the life of the tire.  Phases I & II focused on better understanding the causes of tire...

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Project Announcement: Membrane Water Filtration System Development – Phase II

The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phased initiative to demonstrate an easy-to-use, robust water filtration system.  In Phase II, the thermoplastic filtration membrane...

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Project Announcement: Improved Watercraft Coatings – Phase II

The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phased project to identify, develop, and demonstrate coatings that improve the lifetime, efficacy, and ease-of-use of watercraft...

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Project Announcement: Advanced Modeling and Simulation, Tooling and...

The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to provide a tested, affordable, and safe redesign of vehicle components for a military vehicle utilizing the latest and most advanced commercial...

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Project Announcement: Crane Alternatives to Improve Maintenance Capacity,...

The U.S. Navy is partnering with industry and academia to conduct research solutions that will allow the industry to evaluate newer technologies in lifting and handling in order to examine their...

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Project Announcement: Computed Tomography for Quality Control for Additive...

The U.S. Air Force is partnering with industry and academia to demonstrate and examine the processes and methodologies needed to verify the quality of AM components.  This includes providing assistance...

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Desktop Metal Receives Multi-Million Dollar Award From Department of Defense...

Desktop Metal is a leader in mass production and turnkey additive manufacturing solutions, offering the fastest metal 3D printing technology in the market, up to 100 times the speed of legacy...

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Meet NCMS Project Manager Scott Benton

After three decades with PPG, Scott Benton has chosen NCMS to begin his second career. It’s not a surprising choice for Benton who spent the last 13 years working on PPG government–funded projects,...

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Team SUB Small Business Sustainment Technology Showcase Offered Companies...

NCMS partnered with SEA OOK Team SUB to host the Small Business Sustainment Technology Showcase on September 16-17, 2020 at the Navy Yard, Washington DC. This virtual event showcased innovative...

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Temple Allen’s SAM Scaling Tool Gets “Standing” Ovation from Maintainers...

Temple Allen recently delivered three of their Stand-Up Abrading Machines (SAM) Scaling Tools to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. The SAM had been demonstrated at the shipyard twice through the CTMA Program...

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Eclypse International Wiring Technology Garners Rave Reviews and $15M Award...

The F/A-18 aircraft has been flying since the late 1970s and has been a multi–role workhorse for both the Navy and Marine Corps. As with many of the DOD air platforms, wiring issues are a constant...

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2019 CTMA Technology Competition Winner Impresses Norfolk Naval Shipyard

Atmospheric Plasma Solutions won the 2019 CTMA Technology Competition, which included $50K toward a CTMA project with the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Now that the year-long project is concluding, there is...

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Program Executive Officer Ground Combat System Combat Capabilities...

The Air Force chose to utilize the CTMA Program to conduct demonstrations and evaluations of this innovative inspection technology. Computed Tomography for Quality Control for Additive Manufacturing...

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Six Finalists Announced for the 2020 Maintenance Innovation Challenge

The Maintenance Innovation Challenge (MIC) is an important venue to present innovative technologies in front of a large cross-section of DOD decision-makers The MIC aims to elevate and expand the call...

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Project Announcement: Advanced Membrane Electrode Assemblies (MEA) for Fuel...

The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to prototype high-temperature Polymer-Inorganic Composite (PIC) proton-exchange membranes and related nanostructured electrodes for improving the...

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Project Announcement: Solid Film Lubricants for Improved Maintenance and...

The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to evaluate promising solid film lubricant technologies in a currently relevant internal combustion engine to replicate and document the...

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Project Announcement: Chemical Agent Resistant Coating (CARC) Process...

The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to investigate substrate effect on corrosion resistance as part of the chemical agent resistant coating system on Army ground vehicle systems....

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Project Announcement: Advanced Mobile Universal Electric Tester (AMUET)...

The U.S. Navy is partnering with industry and academia on a project that will introduce new AMUET technology combined with automated processes that can be deployed across the naval industry as...

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Project Announcement: Elimination of Hexavalent Chromium/Cadmium for...

The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phased initiative to evaluate Zinc Nickel (ZnNi) as a replacement for Cadmium plating with Hexavalent Chromium for fasteners. This...

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Project Announcement: Optimization of Exhaust Seal Material to Improve...

The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to leverage new commercial materials and optimization processes to design a new engine exhaust seal that is more reliable and less susceptible to...

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