075 – NUVU and NUVU-IR… 21st Century Tools for Non-Destructive Digital Inspection

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 […]

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074 – “CBM+ for Field Asset Readiness”

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, […]

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073 – “COMFRC Enterprise Wide Deployment of VR Paint SIM”

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. […]

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072 – “Innovation Testing Team”

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 […]

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071 – “PCRT Resonance Analytics to Qualify Additively Manufactured Parts”

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 […]

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070 – “Smart Data Cleanser for Just-In-Time Maintenance Risk Discovery”

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 […]

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069 – “Improving In-Process Control for Thermal Spray”

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, […]

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068 – “Slam Sticks Accelerating Maintenance”

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. […]

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067 – “KC-135 VHF Data Link (VDL) Ramp Tester”

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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066 – “Flightline Armament Test: the NEW New”

Author: Stephen T. Sargeant, Major General, USAF (Ret.) Company: Marvin Test Solutions, Inc. Phone: (949) 263-2222 Email: SteveS@MarvinTest.com A warfighting armament test gap exists today across many legacy 4th and 5th generation aircraft due to the inability of current O-level armament test equipment to functionally test MIL-STD-1760 based smart weapon systems. The current USAF handheld […]

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