NCMS

MAY 12, 2023

The US Navy is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to leverage commercial industry best practices, tools, and emerging technologies to refine and optimize processes that improve organizational production, maintenance, and sustainment outcomes at a shipyard.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing 40

NCMS

MARCH 31, 2023

The US Air Force is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to fully integrate the B-1 Lancer into a digital engineering environment.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing 40

NCMS

MARCH 24, 2023

A current CTMA project, Enhanced Audit Software Readiness Tool, brings together industry partner Ricardo Defense with the US Army […] The post Audit Readiness Tool Enhances Software with Embedded AI appeared first on National Center for Manufacturing Sciences.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing 40

NCMS

MARCH 16, 2023

The US Army is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to develop a framework for future sustainment after the US divestiture of the M1A1 through continued US Army development of common components, with unique component development being the responsibility of the new users.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing 40

NCMS

MARCH 31, 2023

The US Army is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to assess and demonstrate the impact of a technology-enabled integrated decision support platform on maintenance and sustainment of current and future commercial and warfighting operations.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing 40

NCMS

MARCH 16, 2023

The US Air Force is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to validate the establishment of an agile training program that can be tailored to aid and guide the transformation of traditional legacy acquisition system development and sustainment organizations into Lean-Agile enterprises.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing 40

NCMS

MARCH 16, 2023

The US Army is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to advance the state of the art in tools and processes to establish a new digital ecosystem integrated with current government systems and processes.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing 40

NCMS

MARCH 16, 2023

The US Army is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to advance commercial technologies and processes to more effectively and efficiently identify hazardous chemicals contained in parts and components found in military vehicles and other equipment.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing 40

NCMS

MARCH 16, 2023

The US Army is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to design and integrate a scalable high voltage Modular and Open System Architecture (MOSA) into a hybrid system to assess how the technology can improve reliability, availability, and maintainability across a range of vehicle types.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing 40

NCMS

JANUARY 25, 2023

The US Marines is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to develop the strategy and verify/ validate prototype software for a maintenance organization’s use of Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, with advanced mathematical algorithms in Supply Chain Management to increase parts availability and reduce customer (..)

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Supply Chain Prototype  Manufacturing 40

NCMS

JANUARY 25, 2023

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to improve the state of the art in software diagnostic tools, problem investigation methods, and agile development processes to properly integrate new electronic components and their associated firmware and software onto a legacy vehicle to ensure (..)

Electronics 40

Electronics Function Manufacturing 40

NCMS

JANUARY 25, 2023

The US Army is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to advance the state of the art in systems safety and model-based systems engineering tools to integrate autonomous system hardware and software that will result in an integrated autonomous system that is safe, reliable, and easy to maintain.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing 40

NCMS

AUGUST 24, 2022

The US Army is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to develop a resin-based, non-weld patch repair that will allow for quick, temporary, on-site repairs of vital equipment. For more information about this ongoing project contact CTMA@ncms.org.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing 40

NCMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The US Navy is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to demonstrate how automation and complementary innovative technologies can improve maintenance and sustainment for ship fleets to reduce repair down time and cost and improve time at sea.

Robotics 40

Robotics Robotics Automation Manufacturing 40

NCMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The US Army is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to develop and qualify new rubber formulations with higher load capacities and better wear characteristics to improve the longevity of track systems for heavy commercial and military vehicles.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing 40

NCMS

AUGUST 13, 2022

The US Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps are partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to enhance and expand demonstration of an integrated set of data, tools and processes that provide a common operating picture of all resource requirements across an aircraft maintenance organization to help improve overall aircraft readiness. (..)

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing 40

NCMS

AUGUST 24, 2022

The US Navy is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to integrate the demand and supply planning processes, identify process controls and accountability standards, and develop scalable process automation initiatives with the capability to iterate divergent data sources.

Supply Chain 40

Supply Chain Process control Sourcing Automation 40

NCMS

AUGUST 22, 2022

The US Army is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to develop a Bradley Processing Unit (BPU) design (A common fire control system for BFVs) using technology that is obsolescence resistant while providing smart growth for anticipated functionality.

Electronics 40

Electronics Function Manufacturing 40

NCMS

AUGUST 22, 2022

The US Army is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to develop, pilot, refine, demonstrate, and document strategic processes that are flexible and sustainable and provide organizational decision makers an effective means to mitigate risks caused by manufacturing and sustainment supply chain disruptions.

Supply Chain 40

Supply Chain Manufacturing 40

NCMS

AUGUST 13, 2022

The US Army is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to assess and demonstrate the impact of a technology enabled integrated decision support platform on maintenance and sustainment of current and future commercial and warfighting operations.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing 40

NCMS

AUGUST 3, 2022

The US Navy is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to test, optimize, and validate a Navy Confined Spaces Monitoring System (CSMS) for insertion into confined space working environments within shipyards, primarily relating to conducting maintenance and sustainment activities.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing 40

NCMS

AUGUST 22, 2022

The US Air Force is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to validate the establishment of an Agile coaching and training program that can be tailored to aid and guide the transformation of traditional legacy acquisition system development and sustainment organizations into Lean-Agile enterprises that can independently (..)

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing 40

NCMS

AUGUST 13, 2022

The US Army is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to advance the state of the art of workload tracking and workforce planning tools using CECOM’s current SAP-based ERP system as a testbed.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing 40

NCMS

AUGUST 3, 2022

The US Army is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to modify a commercial-off-the-shelf advanced braking and suspension system to allow for integration onto a legacy military vehicle to demonstrate improved reliability, readiness, and safety and reduce maintenance and sustainment costs.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing 40

Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 16, 2023

Projects carried out under NCMS’s Commercial Technologies for Maintenance Activities (CTMA) Program include development of: Ruggedized sensors for collision avoidance systems. Digital twin and digital analytics for ship machinery health monitoring. Advanced diagnostics and prognostics systems for autonomous vehicles.

Electronics 52

Electronics Manufacturing 52

NCMS

MAY 12, 2023

The US Army is partnering with industry and academia on a multi-phase CTMA initiative to provide an integrated product architecture using a MBSE approach. The overall goal is to realize a single digital representation of an asset’s complete system.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing 40

NCMS

AUGUST 24, 2022

The US Army is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to transform a single-function radar sensor into a multi-functional system that is software adaptable and will provide expanded functional capabilities without adding additional parts and hardware components that can malfunction.

Function 40

Function Electronics Manufacturing 40