34 Additive Manufacturing of Carbon Nanotube Metal Matrix Composites
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Read More »075 – “NUVU and NUVU-IR… 21st Century Tools for Non-Destructive Digital Inspection” Author: Dr. Yogesh Mehrotra Company: Materials Technologies Corporation Phone: (203) 502-8900 Email: YMehrotra@AboutMTC.com Problem: Given DoD’s aging hardware inventory, Readiness & Sustainment remain ever dominant themes across all DoD services. In his May 2011 testimony before Senate Armed Services Committee, now retd. AF […]
Read More »Author: Naveen Sydney Company: hyperFIELD Phone: (850) 276-9356 Email: naveen@hyper-field.com In May 2018, Defense Secretary James N. Mattis discussed our National Defense Strategy. He outlined that a critical part of the nation’s competitive, military advantage is a reform of the DoD’s business practices and budgets for technological innovation to increase lethality. He stated that cyber, […]
Read More »Author: Gabe Draguicevich Company: NAVAIR FRC-SW Phone: (619) 545-7740 Email: gabriel.draguicevich@navy.mil The Virtual Reality Paint Simulator (VR Paint SIM) system provides a realistic training experience prioritizing hands-on practice and technique development. The system motivates practice through friendly competition as well as increases practice time as a result of reducing part prep, cleaning, and drying times. […]
Read More »Author: Vincent C. Stamper Company: Naval Intermediate Maintenance Facility PacNorWest Phone: (360) 340-2781 Email: vincent.c.stamper1@navy.mil The use of industrial processes in and around sensitive systems and equipment aboard naval assets pose risk. To mitigate this risk, restrictions on the use of these processes are in place, based on the best testing methods available at the […]
Read More »Author: Patricia M. Knighten Company: Vibrant Corporation Phone: (505) 918-5974 Email: pknighten@vibrantndt.com Additive manufacturing (AM) techniques have advanced dramatically in recent years and can solve the Department of Defense (DoD) maintenance and material readiness challenges of diminishing supply sources, part obsolescence, and service life extensions, while reducing operating costs of aging platforms. Before the potential […]
Read More »Author: Gerry Falen Company: Robins AFB/Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex Phone: (478) 222-2912 Email: gerald.falen@us.af.mil • Roughly half of Air Force maintenance data is poorly coded, which degrades individual aircraft and fleet analysis. It is no small feat to correct that coding — after identifying rare subject matter experts, the corrections could take four years […]
Read More »Author: Michael Lucis, David Ward Company: USAF AFMC 76 PMXG Phone: (405) 739-2948, (405) 582-1941 Email: michael.lucis@us.af.mil In an effort to modernize the monitoring and control of thermal spray, three innovative sensors were developed and are being put into use in the 76 PMXG thermal spray area: the plume-optimization camera, the in-situ coating properties sensor, […]
Read More »Author: Stephen Hanly Company: Mide Technology Phone: (781) 306-0609 Email: shanly@mide.com Slam Stick was developed for the Navy under the DoD Rapid Innovation Fund (RIF) ONR BAA RIF 11-023 and provides engineers a cost-effective wireless vibration, temperature, and atmospheric pressure data logger that can be used anywhere in the world to quickly identify system problems. […]
Read More »Author: Daniel Edlin Company: Tinker AFB, 76 AMXG Phone: (405) 736-7367 Email: daniel.edlin.1@us.af.mil KC-135 aircraft are re-flown to test data link communications due to the absence of a local system capable of broadcasting a very high frequency (VHF) communication signal. In FY18, 12 aircraft required re-flight due to data link repairs, with each requiring an […]
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