Project Announcement: Demonstration of Advanced Coatings for Sustainability Phase II

The U.S. Navy is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phased CTMA initiative to demonstrate advanced coating technologies developed specifically to mitigate the impacts of harsh environments on military aircraft. The goal is to demonstrate the viability of the technology, to accelerate technology modifications that will address military-specific issues, and to accelerate the maturation […]

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Project Announcement: Redesign of Vehicle Components for Improved Manufacturability and Maintainability

The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to leverage advanced commercial Design for Manufacturing/Design for Maintainability principles, tools, processes, and best practices to develop and demonstrate a vehicle component redesign process.  A comprehensive analysis and assessment will be applied to recommend options for streamlining manufacturability and improving maintainability across four […]

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Project Announcement: Improving Thermoset Composite Processes to Enhance Mechanical Performance of Additive Manufactured (AM) Parts

The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to develop and demonstrate a process and system for inserting continuous fibers into a UV curable liquid resin and/or Additive Reactive Extrusion liquid resin while the part is printing during the AM process. The goal is to provide both commercial and military maintenance […]

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Project Announcement: Advanced Manufacturing to Increase Aircraft Functionality and Sustainability – Phase III

The U.S. Air Force is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to improve the state of advanced materials, virtual prototyping, virtual visualization, advanced manufacturing, and simulated maintenance planning. The goal will be to conduct an all-aspect analysis and operational simulation of an aircraft kit that will temporarily modify an existing aircraft […]

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NCMS Technology Showcase featured in September Issue of Salute

Originally published in Salute September 16, 2021 PSNS & IMF held a kick-off briefing the day before the event where Technology Insertion Office personnel and a representative from the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences helped department heads, division heads and innovation folks from throughout the command understand how they could best use the event to […]

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