Sources Sought: Urgent – NCMS is Assisting the U.S. Air Force in Seeking...
The U.S. Air Force has an immediate need for 1 billet of materials to create Dorsal Longerons (DL) for the B-1. All suppliers that have this material available are encouraged to respond. Problem...
View ArticleIn-person events are back and better than ever—Six reasons to attend
It seems hopeful that pandemic restrictions will continue to be lifted and more activities for large groups can be planned. Slowly and with caution, face-to-face events are re-emerging as the preferred...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Vehicle Load Mapping to Reduce Maintenance and...
The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to develop the process and template of model-based system engineering models for a full vehicle in the area of vehicle design loads. The process...
View ArticleProject Announcement: 3D Printing for Improved Maintenance and Sustainment of...
The U.S. Navy is partnering with industry and academia to utilize commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) metal 3D printing technology to support maintenance and sustainment requirements with reliable,...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Advanced and Holistic Vehicle and Subsystem Design...
The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to demonstrate a more effective and efficient engineering and design approach toward improving vehicle sustainment, survivability, occupant...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Innovative Carbon Fiber and Graphitic Foam Solutions...
The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phased initiative to focus on the development and testing of low-cost mesophase pitch as a precursor for the production of carbon and...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Modern Business Platform for Improvements to...
The U.S. Air Force is partnering with industry and academia to demonstrate that a commercial-off-the-shelf industrial internet of things (COTS/IIoT) connectivity and analytics platform can perform...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Advanced Composite Materials to Improve Mobile...
The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to advance the state of new composite technologies and design processes to improve the functionality and lifecycle of rigid wall shelters. Using...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Manufacturing and Integration of Lightweight Composite...
The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to perform a technology assessment and evaluation on lightweight thermoplastic and thermoset composites to determine the relationship between...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Improved Sustainment and Maintenance of Workload...
The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to provide Communications Electronics Command (CECOM) dedicated analytic subject matter expertise and programmatic support with a focus towards...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Advanced Modular Automation Solutions to Improve...
The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to advance the state of new modular automation, robotic technologies, and manufacturing processes to provide a more agile and flexible production...
View ArticleNew Guideline on Intermittent Fault Detection To Appear in DOD Electronic...
Intermittent fault issues are an ongoing problem for electronics across the military. Those that occur in a line replaceable unit/weapon replaceable assembly (LRU/WRA) and weapon systems electrical...
View ArticleNCMS Remembers Longtime Friend and Colleague Gabe Draguicevich
On June 15, 2021, NCMS lost a colleague, an enthusiastic supporter, and friend. Gabriel Draguicevich (or just Gabe as most people called him) was a division director for new technologies in the...
View ArticleCSAT 2021 Spotlights Point-of-Need Technologies
Cold spray technology is an innovative, flexible, and efficient high-velocity additive-manufacturing method that accelerates metal powders or nonmetallic particles to form a coating or freestanding...
View ArticleAirless Tire Technology is a Game Changer for the U.S. Army
In 2019 a U.S. Army team took an airless tire on a trip to the Amazon rainforest to test the technology on the Army’s Light Tactical All-Terrain Vehicles (LTATV) to see how it would hold up in extreme...
View ArticleNew Technology Brief Program Launched
NCMS has launched a new periodic communication, called the NCMS Technology Briefs, which will highlight NCMS’s cultivation and growth of innovative technologies. Through our management of government...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Joint Additive Manufacturing Acceptability (JAMA)
The U.S. Air Force is partnering with industry and academia to provide supply chain, cost analysis, and engineering technical expertise as needed to demonstrate using documentation and part examples as...
View ArticleDOD Promotes Additive Manufacturing Expansion, Standardization, Training...
The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) would like to spotlight a recent news article by the US Department of Defense (DOD) announcing it has developed new policies and programs to...
View ArticleDirty Hardware Abatement | Elimination of Cadmium and Hexavalent Chromium in...
By Matthew Withun, PEO Ground Combat Systems The U.S. Army and other DOD agencies still use hexavalent chromium and cadmium plated mechanical parts, electrical components, and fasteners on many of its...
View ArticleProject Announcement: Adhesive Performance Improvements to Support...
The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia to investigate and validate the performance of a variety of adhesives across various substrates with different surface characteristics to support...
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