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| January 2011
Welcome to The CTMA Connector, a monthly newsletter designed to provide news and ideas about the Commercial Technologies for Maintenance Activities (CTMA) program. The CTMA program is a joint Department of Defense/National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (DoD/NCMS) effort promoting collaborative technology development between industry and the DoD maintenance and repair facilities. This newsletter highlights ongoing projects, serves as a forum for promoting new project ideas, and provides other news of interest to the program. Our goal is to stimulate your participation and solicit your input. Feel free to submit items for the newsletter as well as any suggestions to make it more useful. More information about the program can be found at http://ctma.ncms.org/. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the CTMA Connector, send a message to: listserv@listserv.ncms.org with “subscribe CTMANewsletter” or “unsubscribe CTMANewsletter” in the message body. We welcome the following companies/organizations into NCMS: University of Louisville (www.louisville.edu) The University of Louisville is a state supported research university located in Kentuckys largest metropolitan area.Portal Dynamics Inc. (www.portal-dynamics.com) Portal Dynamics integrated solutions represent an extensive understanding into how information and telecommunication technologies can improve the way your work is conducted. Among these are web-based applications involved in inventory life cycle management, the tracking of physical assets, and facilitated workflows.The Pacific Center for Advanced Technology Training (PCATT) at Honolulu Community College (www.pcatt.net) PCATT provides leadership and training in advanced technologies to enhance economic and workforce development programs and initiatives in the State of Hawaii and the Pacific Rim.Universal Synaptics Corporation (www.universalsynaptics.com) Since 1996, Universal Synaptics Corporation, based in Ogden, UT., has been an industry leader in detecting and isolating elusive intermittent faults, and spent years in the “trenches” researching and solving complex diagnostic and testing problems. Their research into the primary root causes of intermittent / No Fault Found (NFF) problems and the massive digital testing void that exists today with conventional scanning test equipment, led to the development of the patented Intermittent Fault Detector (IFD), hardware neural network and all-lines-all-the-time wiring / circuit analyzer test solutions. Enjoy a chance to get perspectives from Deputy Depot Commanders at this years 2011 CTMA Symposium April 4-6 Quantico, VA The CTMA Symposium:
The Symposium will focus on the rapid response to the needs of the warfighter and will include DoD experts on warfighter needs, depot deputy commanders outlining their current needs, and project showcases/presentations. The working agenda and registration can be found at http://www.ncms.org/2011CTMA/agenda.htm. Recently Completed Project: Automated Intensifier Measurement System (AIMS-II) DoD Participants: U.S. Army CECOM; U.S. Army Tobyhanna Army Depot (TYAD); U.S. Navy NSWC Crane; U.S. Army RDECOM CERDEC, Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate There are approximately 900,000 image intensifier tubes in the field. Roughly 10,000 of these image intensifier tubes are returned annually from the field and are demilitarized (destroyed) due to a lack of retesting verification. However, image intensifier tubes identified for demilitarization in the field have successfully passed MIL-Specs in Automated Intensifier Measurement System (AIMS-II) re-evaluations at continental U.S. (CONUS) depots. Returning reevaluated and fully functional tubes to the warfighters via AIMS-II can save $15-22.5M annually and can reduce the nearly two-year new tube procurement backlog; thus providing our warfighters with the night vision devices required to support their mission readiness. AIMS-II is a NIST-traceable, calibratable, machine vision system developed to produce rapid, automated, quantifiable, and reproducible results on all 21 of the primary image intensifier tube inspections. The image intensifier tubes are the main optical component in night vision devices. AIMS-II is a self-contained, temperature controlled, test set capable of calibration and operation in normal light levels and has a footprint of 4½ x 6 x 6 (h x w x d). AIMS-II represents:
The AIMS-II system has been delivered to Tobyhanna Army Depot (TYAD), which is now testing Army image intensifier tubes (MX-10130) that have been returned from the field and potentially eliminate unnecessary demilitarization of image intensifier tubes. This CTMA project included development efforts by The Pennsylvania State University through its Electro-Optics Center (Penn State EOC), which enabled the upgrade of this unit to accommodate the MX-10130 tube type and led to the accelerated upgrade of an existing prototype-to-production AIMS-II test set to support the Armys (TYAD) tube testing mission. Customers and/or end users will be U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps depots, image intensifier tube manufacturers ITT Technologies and L-3 (Northrop Grumman Electro Optical Systems), as well as other entities that utilize image intensifier tubes in their products. The NCMS Program Manager is Doyle Maleche, doylem@ncms.org, 360-782-1370.Equipment Available: A completed CTMA program has surplus equipment available to DoD facilities or NCMS members.
If you are interested in more information, please contact Chuck Ryan at chuckr@ncms.org. We appreciate your feedback. Please contact Chuck Ryan with suggestions or input on other topics that would be of interest to you in this newsletter. The CTMA Program is sponsored by the Department of Defense; the content of this newsletter does not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the government; no official endorsement should be inferred. |
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