Author: Timothy Phillis Company: US Army / RDECOM / ARDEC Phone: (309) 782-4909 Email: timothy.c.phillis.civ@mail.mil Additive Manufacturing (AM) or 3D Printing is a disruptive technology, which allows the Warfighter to perform expeditionary repair and mitigate down time, caused by battle damage and depleted supply. AM can be used to shorten the design to production cycle […]
Read More »Author: Jeremy Johnson Company: Robins AFB/Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex Phone: (478) 327-2659 Email: jeremy.johnson.5@us.af.mil The Asset LifeCycle Information Management (ALCIM) program addresses the Air Force Sustainment Center’s (AFSC) high priority technology need to provide operational efficiency metrics of key manufacturing machinery, assess the need for proactive maintenance using advanced machine learning algorithms, and provide […]
Read More »Author: Mil Ovan Company: Navitas Systems Email: movan@navitassys.com PROBLEM STATEMENT The Department of Defense owns and operates large fleets forklift trucks for material handling purposes. Many of these forklift trucks are electric, powered by very large lead acid batteries. While sufficient for low intensity warehouse applications, the 100+ year old lead acid chemistry has inherent […]
Read More »Author: NAVSEA Tactical Innovation Implementation Lab & Naval Underwater Warfare Center Keyport Company: US Navy Phone: (360) 507-8745 Email: janice.k.bryant@navy.mil Surface coating inspection, removal, and reinstallation are often the critical path in ship maintenance. To modernize the Navy’s approach to surface coating removal, the NAVSEA Laser Ablation Fielding Team embraced the task of gaining approvals, […]
Read More »Author: Mike Clark Company: AFSC 309 EMXG/MXDEB Phone: (801) 775-3548 Email: michael.clark.9@us.af.mil EMXG’s support team recently completed a rehost of F-16 Signal Acquisition Unit (SAU) to the CBATS/DXR Test station. The CBATS (Common Benchtop Automated Test System) is a member of the Department of Defense “Family of Testers” that was developed as a common platform […]
Read More »Author: Nathan Hughes Company: USAF Phone: (801) 775-2270 Email: nathan.hughes@us.af.mil Cadmium is a soft metal used as a thin corrosion inhibiting coating on steel parts such as landing gear and missile ground systems shock isolators overhauled at Ogden Air Logistics Complex (OO-ALC). Cadmium was originally specified for these systems due to its excellent corrosion inhibition […]
Read More »Author: Richard Crowther Company: USAF Phone: (801) 586-5361 Email: richard.crowther@us.af.mil Ogden Air Logistics Complex (OO-ALC) has made great strides in the last few years with robotic LASER coating removal technology. Incredible efforts from Engineers, Technicians, 309 AMXG, Department of Defense (DoD) contractors, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center / Enterprise Zone Program, and OO-ALC leadership […]
Read More »Author: Mark Rorabaugh Company: United States Air Force Phone: mark.rorabaugh@us.af.mil Email: (801) 775-4471 Hexavalent chromium dust is eight (8) times more likely to cause cancer than asbestos. Hazardous chromium, cadmium, and other dusts are generated by common industrial processes and all sustainment centers (“depots”) of all Department of Defense (DoD) components subject personnel to these […]
Read More »Author: Nathan Rigoni Company: US Army AMRDEC Phone: (256) 876-4620 Email: nathaniel.c.rigoni.civ@mail.mil Integrated Data Environment for Automated Labeling (IDEAL) Maintenance Innovation Challenge DoD Maintenance Symposium Army rotorcraft routinely capture a large amount of sensor data covering a range of information from engine performance and gearbox vibration to aircraft orientation and outside environment. This data acquisition […]
Read More »Author: Stephen Jogerst Company: 436 MXG USAF Phone: stephen.jogerst@us.af.mil Email: (302) 677-2193 Aircraft maintenance personnel have no method to search or retrieve historic maintenance data by precise coordinates on a given aircraft. This capability limitation of the current Maintenance Data Collection (MDC) systems has resulted in countless instances in which maintainers are unable to determine […]
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