NCMS is thrilled to announce that, after a two-year hiatus, our highly anticipated 2022 CTMA Partners Meeting will be held in person May 3-5, 2022, at the Delta Hotel in Virginia Beach, Virginia. We cordially invite you to attend this special event—the only forum exclusively devoted to improving Department of Defense (DOD) maintenance and sustainment. […]
Read More »Boston Engineering Corporation (www.boston-engineering.com) has been providing engineering consulting services for over 25 years. As an engineering design firm, Boston Engineering supports the entire product development process—from providing product engineering consulting to delivering the product lifecycle management (PLM) tools and infrastructure. Boston Engineering is ISO-certified and applies its phase-gate process to ensure that projects succeed within tight deadlines, focused budgets, and stringent […]
Read More »Additive manufacturing (AM) has been a game-changing technology for rapid prototyping and production in many industries, enabling more components to be manufactured domestically. As the Air Force increases its need for producing hard-to-source parts via AM, it is essential to develop quality control processes to validate flight-critical components. To achieve this objective, NCMS has collaborated with the Air Force and Comet Technologies USA for a CTMA project. Titled Computed Tomography for Quality Control for Additive Manufacturing Parts, it began in September 2020 and is scheduled to wrap […]
Read More »When service members’ lives are endangered during tactical operations, natural disasters, accidents, and medical emergencies, MEDEVAC personnel serve as a lifeline by providing care and transportation to treatment facilities. Increasingly, military forces operate over extended distances, requiring longer travel to medical centers for surgery or other procedures, which can put critical patients at risk. During transit by ground or air, MEDEVAC responders must maintain patients’ stability. As the well-established theory of the golden hour has shown, stabilizing major trauma patients within 60 minutes of […]
Read More »As the Army modernizes its combat fleet, it has identified the need for light weighting its vehicles. The need to be expeditionary is driving the need for a lightweight combat vehicle force that is more maneuverable and requires less maintenance. One challenge is finding suitable lightweight and high-performance materials for construction. Many new materials are not always viable due to production, finishing, and assembly issues. But a more significant challenge is developing methods for joining of dissimilar materials and the […]
Read More »The personnel who sustain radiological systems need state-of-the-art simulation training to learn how to handle worst-case scenarios without being exposed to actual radiological hazards. Yet existing trainings use outdated and unrealistic methods. To improve training for the radiological sustainment community, NCMS began a project in September 2020—Advanced Radiation Detection Indication and Computation (RADIAC) Technology—that gathers experts from four Naval shipyards (Puget Sound, Portsmouth, Pearl Harbor, and Norfolk), along with industry partner Radiation Safety & Control Services (RSCS). The project team has […]
Read More »The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) announced both winners of the 2021 CTMA Technology Competition at the Finalists Presentation event on December 8, which was broadcast live over the web. The Overall Award winner is Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Lab (ARL), for a “Multifunctional Automated Repair System (MARS)” and the People’s Choice Award winner is Everactive, Inc., for a “Batteryless Remote Monitoring for the IIoT.” The contest is NCMS’s annual event that highlights […]
Read More »Michigan Technological University (MTU) is a public research university in the city of Houghton, Michigan, in the state’s Upper Peninsula. Its colleges welcome 7,000 students from more than 50 countries. A leader in cybersecurity education and research, MTU is home to the Center for Cybersecurity, specializing in research related to information security and biometrics, privacy protection, trusted software engineering, […]
Read More »Maintaining fleet readiness for the US Navy has always required high-level planning involving mountains of data of diverse types and quality. Unfortunately, data alone cannot point the way to a better approach to maintenance and sustainment. The ability to collect appropriate data sets, integrate and analyze them with incorporation of domain knowledge, and produce an executable action plan is what’s needed to make sustainment operations more effective. The Department of Defense has long recognized that digital processing and data science holds the key to enabling a condition-based maintenance (CBM) […]
Read More »TQS, Inc., has been providing systems engineering, enterprise software development, dating mining and analysis, and advanced testing systems and services to government and private industry clients since 1994. Veteran-owned and operated, TQS has extensive experience solving challenges throughout the entire supply chain, from procurement, sustainment analysis and planning, to maintenance, repair and overhaul. Within its systems engineering division, TQS has designed product lifecycle management support methodologies for a wide range of uses. For example, it designed and conducted many poor-performance analyses on F-16 avionics failure issues, which enabled the identification of the root cause of costly “bad […]
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