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| March 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: Climax Portable Machine Tools, Inc. (www.cpmt.com) Manufacturer of Portable Metal Cutting Machine Tools used in the repair and manufacturing of industrial machinery and equipment. Providing both standard and custom built tools.Optomec, Inc. (www.optomec.com) Supplier of advanced manufacturing equipment for the Electronics, Photovoltaic Display and Defense industries using clean technologies to fabricate and repair next generation end-products with improved functionality at lower cost. Intel Corporation (www.intel.com) Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products, and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Founded in 1968 to build semiconductor memory products, Intel introduced the world’s first microprocessor in 1971. Why should you come to April 4-6 Quantico, VA 1) Project Opportunities – the funding model for the CTMA program has evolved from congressionally-directed funds to service-directed funds. Since January 2010, the CTMA program has received over $17 million in funding for projects, which is far above the $6 million annual average we received from 1998-2009. We are on-track for receiving substantially more project funding in this calendar year as well. 2) Our focus on technology development and deployment – CTMA projects span DoD technology readiness levels 5-8, with a strong focus on delivering capability to the DoD. Therefore, project teams are in better positions to continue to deploy their technologies to other DoD facilities when the project has been completed. 3) Reach into DoD – The CTMA program has well established relationships with all the DoD depots, and have expanded relationships into the intermediate repair facilities in all the services as well. Now we are making inroads in establishing new relationships with Program Executive Officers, weapon system programs managers and chief engineers who establish DoD needs and drive technology development and deployment. Coming to the Symposium will expose you and your technology developments to a wide variety of DoD personnel. If you can fill a DoD need, the CTMA program offers an opportunity to meet those needs. The CTMA cooperative agreement offers a convenient contracting mechanism to DoD organizations to quickly apply funds to new project efforts, and to bring collaborative teams together to solve their highest priority issues. It is not too late to register, and to reserve a tabletop display to further educate Symposium participants about your technology solutions. The agenda and registration can be found at http://www.ncms.org/2011CTMA/agenda.htm. Project Approval: Corrosion Resistant Solid State Thin-Walled Component Joining for Maintenance and Repair Applications Phase II Phase I of this project created a design for a bolt-on replacement to the current belt up structure of the HMMWV. The purpose of the replacement cage is to provide a nonintrusive low weight structure that produces a pallet for a low weight composite and reduced weight metallic armor solutions while including main components of the armor into the structure, resulting in a stiffer overall end result. Emphasis was placed on hydroforming and Deformation Resistance Welding (DRW) welding to produce a final design that, while meeting the crucial criteria in advancing the current structural and weight characteristics, is also feasible as a cost effective solution at the production level. Phase II will validate the DRW technology as both a tool for the direct manufacture of next generation military vehicle with specific reference to space frame structure development. The initiative of this phase of the DRW design study will follow close collaboration and coordination between the industrial team and the Program Manager Tactical Vehicles US Army to identify weight savings opportunities on the HMMWV that also hold applicability for currently fielded vehicles (RESET/RECAP) and future vehicle programs such as JLTV and GCV. 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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