Category Manufacturing

The importance, and challenges of Defense systems Reliability, maintainability, and availability (RAM) and it’s improvement

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Reliability, maintainability, and availability (RAM) are three system attributes that are of great interest to systems engineers, logisticians, and users. Collectively, they affect both the utility and the life-cycle costs of a product or system.   Although significant improvements have…...

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DOD Identifies and Manages Manufacturing Risk and Readiness using MRLs

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The Department of Defense (DOD) has a well-documented history of taking much longer and spending much more than originally planned to develop and acquire its weapons systems. In particular, as systems transition from development to production, programs experience significant manufacturing…...

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Growing threats to ICT supply chains, DOD implements Supply Chain Risk management (SCRM) in acquisition

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The rapid evolution of technology and outsourced manufacturing has created new opportunities, as well as new challenges and risks. Organizations today are under increased pressure to improve product designs as well as manufacturability and sustainability while reducing costs and development schedules.…...

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3D Printing to enable on-demand, 3D-printed explosives at the front line.

Energetic materials and munitions are used across DoD in mission critical applications such as rockets, missiles, ammunition, and pyrotechnic devices. In these applications, energetic materials and munitions must perform as designed to ensure success in both training and combat operations. Energetic…...

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Detonators innovating for a wireless safer & more productive blasting and EMI/EMP immune laser detonators

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Energetic materials and munitions are used across DoD in mission critical applications such as rockets, missiles, ammunition, and pyrotechnic devices. In these applications, energetic materials and munitions must perform as designed to ensure success in both training and combat operations.…...

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Amalga™: an Next generation MEMS manufacturing technology for miniature RF Components

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Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) is the integration of mechanical elements (levers, springs, deformable membranes, vibrating structures, etc.), sensors, actuators, and electronics (resistors, capacitors, inductors, etc.) on a common silicon substrate through microfabrication technology. MEMS devices are today considered as one among the…...

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Militaries develop Morphing military Wings and Aircrafts to provide optimal performance in reconnaissance to bombing missions

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The design of aerodynamic airfoils is optimized for certain conditions. For instance, the shape of the wings of fixed-wing aircrafts are designed and optimized for a certain flight condition (in terms of altitude, speed, aircraft weight, etc.). However, these flight…...

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New piezoelectric manufacturing technologies enable 3D printing of piezoelectrics, sensors and transducers

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The piezoelectric effect was discovered by brothers Pierre and Jacques Curie in 1880, and named after the Greek word piezein, that means to press or squeeze. They found that certain crystals were able to generate an electrical charge when mechanically…...

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Blockchain technology of decentralized digital currency to enhance security of additive manufacturing in Internet of Things to Military 3D printing

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Blockchain is based on open, global infrastructure, decentralized public ledger of transactions that no one person or company owns or controls, ensures security of transfer of funds through public and private cryptology and third parties to verify that they shook,…...

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DARPA’s Open Manufacturing program develops high speed and high quality 3D printing Processes

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Uncertainties in materials and component manufacturing processes are a primary cause of cost escalation and delay during the development, testing and early production of defense systems. In addition, fielded military platforms may have unanticipated performance problems, despite large investment and…...

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