009 – “Navitas Systems Starlifter Lithium Forklift Battery For Material Handling Productivity Improvements”

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 […]

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044 – “Automated Unfunded Requirement (UR) System (AURS)”

Author: Greg Moten Company: 412th Maintenance Group USAF (Dept of Defense) Phone: (661) 277-6844 Email: gregory.moten@us.af.mil Automated Unfunded Requirement (UR) System (AURS) The 412 MXG unfunded requirement (UR) development and execution process had a stakeholder satisfaction rating of 2.9 out of the 5.0 goal. The mediocre rating was influence by the lack of efficiency of […]

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042 – “UTC and Maintenance Recovery Team Process”

Author: Capt Ryan Huff Company: USAF Phone: 479-4504 Email: ryan.huff.2@us.af.mil At first glance, organizing and posturing teams to be ready to deploy at a moment’s notice does not sound like the most innovative breakthrough of the 21st century. However, if you are managing limited resources at the world’s busiest maintenance en route squadron, a personnel […]

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040 – “Artificial Intelligence (AI): Improved DoD Maintenance Responsiveness for Greater Warfighter Readiness and Lethality

Author: Michael L. George Company: AI Technologies, Inc. Phone: (214) 215-4455 Email: mike@entropy2718.com Problem Statement Identify and eliminate operating wastes such as scrap, rework, excess tooling set-up time and costs hindering maintenance response times and limiting warfighter capabilities, mission readiness and lethality. These wastes are faced everyday across the DoD… in Fleet Readiness Centers (FRCs), […]

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035 – “PRC2 and DevSecOps”

Author: Brent VanDerMeide Author email: brent.vandermeide@us.af.mil Author phone: 801-989-6360 Company: USAF The PRC2 team’s most recent success has been taking an organic team that was entrenched in following an out-of-date process known as waterfall software development and embracing an effective method known as Agile which is similar to many leading industry practices. These rapid releases […]

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