Over the past decade, numerous industries have adopted product lifecycle management (PLM) software that integrates design, engineering, production, cost, and maintenance data into a digital thread, providing manufacturers and end users a multi-functional view of a product’s life cycle. PLM software facilitates quality improvements, cost reductions, supply-chain flexibility, and more informed decision making. In 2020, the CTMA Program completed a collaboration with Siemens that […]
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Winner of the 2019 CTMA Technology Competition, Atmospheric Plasma Solutions (APS) is dedicated to advancing plasma technology. Located in the world-renowned Research Triangle region of North Carolina, APS is a leader in the cutting-edge, rapidly expanding field of plasma technology. The company designs and currently builds in-house high-performance plasma power supplies and delivery systems that […]
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The highly anticipated 2022 CTMA Partners Meeting, scheduled for May 3-5 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, has announced this year’s keynote speakers: Steven J. Morani Steven J. Morani is a member of the Senior Executive Service and currently serves as the Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment. In this capacity, he is the principal staff […]
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The US Army’s Jointless Hull project is developing one of the world’s largest 3D metal printers—capable of printing components as large as 20 feet x 30 feet x 12 feet—thanks in part to the work of a CTMA collaborative project entitled “Optimizing Facilities to Ensure Reliability and Maintainability of Large 3D Metal Printers.” The CTMA […]
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Public displays of US Navy aircraft, spanning a sixty-year history from WWII to Desert Storm, demonstrate the technological advancements that have made our country’s air power the most formidable force on earth. Yet, until 2014, the Department of Defense (DOD) had not been briefed on the condition of approximately 1,200 static historical displays of Navy […]
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HII is a global engineering and defense technologies provider with a 135-year history of trusted partnerships. A leader in mission-driven solutions, HII assists the Department of Defense (DOD) by developing, integrating, and managing the sensors, systems, and other assets necessary to support intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations. The ISR group handles exploitation and analysis […]
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Ann Arbor, MI, March 15, 2022—The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) is pleased to announce that, on 15 March 2022, the B-1 System Program Office (SPO) at Tinker AFB, OK, awarded a six-year $100M follow-on contract to Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) to continue the B-1’s Digital Engineering (DE) transformation. […]
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Ann Arbor, MI, March 15, 2022—The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) is pleased to announce that, on 15 March 2022, the B-1 System Program Office (SPO) at Tinker AFB, OK, awarded a six-year $100M follow-on contract to Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) to continue the B-1’s Digital Engineering (DE) transformation. […]
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In recent years, the US Army aviation community has made great progress in utilizing metal additive manufacturing (AM) technology to fabricate individual structural components needed to repair aircraft. Now the Army wants to advance metal AM manufacturing capacity to produce primary structure and mission-critical parts. “This CTMA project, Additive Material Property Evaluation, and Demonstration (AMPED), […]
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DAES Group is a global equipment and solution source supporting aerospace OEMs, commercial airlines, military, and MROs since 1994. DAES drives value to our clients through consulting support, business operations management, technical assistance, quality control, training, facilities improvement, capital equipment, tools, component repair and after-sales services. When working with DOD partners, our focus is delivering […]
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