2018 DoD Maintenance Symposium confirms maintenance is key to readiness Maintenance is the generator of readiness. Get the parts and we’ll generate the weapons systems—generate the readiness. Throughout the 2018 DoD Maintenance Symposium, held in Tampa, FL, December 17-20, recurring topics of innovation, collaboration, and empowerment underpinned the event theme of Maintaining America’s Lethal Competitive […]
Read More »Congratulations to Jim Michael, president of Maglogix® LLC, who wowed the audience at the Maintenance Innovation Challenge, part of the DoD Maintenance Symposium that took place December 17-20 in Tampa, FL. His presentation, along with supporting testimonial from Susan Simms, NAVSEA Tactical Implementation Manager at the Puget Naval Shipyard, beat out the other 73 submissions […]
Read More »Congratulations to Universal Synaptics and Lockheed Martin on their agreement to work together to help the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) solve intermittent faults. With a DoD goal of 80% mission-capable rates for certain critical aircraft platforms, Universal Synaptics’ Intermittent Fault Detection technology will be used to discover random fault anomalies in multi-domain electronics as […]
Read More »The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) was voted “Best 10 X 20 or Larger Booth” for its interactive footprint at the 2018 DoD Maintenance Symposium held in Tampa, FL from December 17-20, 2018. The 20’ X 30’ centrally-located space hosted seven technologies that ranged from fluid analysis to stand-up abrading machines, and wet blast […]
Read More »NCMS is assisting the U.S. Army Rock Island Arsenal to locate technology to chrome plate the ID of M4/M16 (.562 Cal) and M2 (50 Cal) barrels to government specifications. This technology would be needed for internal surfaces only. Responses to Sources Sought should provide: • A value-based submission (completed Cost Summary Form) • Capabilities Summary […]
Read More »Congratulations to the 76th Commodities Maintenance Group, Tinker Air Force Base, who took home the Maintenance Innovation Challenge Overall Winner Award at the 2018 Defense Maintenance Symposium. They are working diligently to sustain the U.S. Air Force’s aging KC-135 Stratotanker, B-1 Lancer, B-52 Stratofortress, E-3 Sentry, and E-6 Mercury aircraft. With the difficulty of obtaining […]
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