Featured Sessions

JDMTP Joint Manufacturing Planning Initiative “Speed Dating” Opportunities

Join us during the Networking Lunch, Tuesday, November 18, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

During this year’s Defense Manufacturing Conference, the Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Panel will conduct a “speed dating” session to help inform the DoD ManTech Strategic Plan Joint Manufacturing Planning Initiatives (JMPIs) and selected Subpanels as described below. Representatives from each of the JMPIs (or JDMTP subpanels not currently working a JMPI), will be offering interested companies a limited number of 15-minute time slots to discuss technology concepts that can help inform DoD ManTech program planning.

The goal of this session is to garner inputs from industry partners which have a specific technology concept that can best address the lines of effort or gaps, and capabilities to inform these joint planning initiatives and Subpanel/Technical Working Group Joint Technology Pursuit Areas. If there is sufficient interest, the interaction opens the path for communications for follow-up. *

• Hypersonics JMPI includes:
  • Manufacturing technology addressing extreme challenges in aerodynamics, propulsion, and heat management, requiring advanced materials and specialized facilities to design, test, and operate vehicles and weapons.
• Digital Thread JMPI consists of areas supporting:
  • An extensible and configurable analytical framework that seamlessly expedites the controlled interplay of technical data, software, information, and knowledge.
• Directed Energy JMPI includes:
  • Technologies such as high-energy lasers (HEL) and high-power microwaves (HPM), to provide advantages over conventional weapons by offering speed-of-light delivery, potentially lower costs per use, and the ability to disable or destroy targets without conventional projectiles.
• Manufacturing of Advanced Materials JMPI includes:
  • Activities with advanced manufacturing to produce novel and difficult to process materials and components affordably at scale.
  • Leveraging advanced manufacturing to rapidly and efficiently process new alloys, polymers, ceramics, composites and energetics directly into components.
• Sustainment JMPI includes:
  • Point of Need advanced manufacturing during crisis.
  • Depot / Shipyard Drydock cycle time reduction improve operational availability and readiness.
  • Organic industrial base integration- improved capability to reduce lead times and respond during surge.
• Energetics and Munitions JMPI includes:
  • Automation, robotics and machine learning.
  • Additive manufacturing for Energetics and Munitions.
  • Flexible agile manufacturing including high energy energetic materials.
• Electronics Subpanel and Power Sources TWG includes:
  • Manufacturing technologies for electro-optics, RF modules, power and energy, electronics packaging & assembly, electromagnetic windows and domes, and heterogeneous integration. The scope includes electronic subassemblies and subsystems, related modeling, processes, and testing of both new production and sustainment/readiness activities for fielded systems.
• Composites Subpanel includes:
  • Manufacturing and related technologies for the fabrication of parts and assemblies from composite materials, to include polymer matrix composites, certain metal matrix composites (MMC) and ceramic matrix composites (CMC), carbon matrix composites, and other materials that have similar forms and/or use similar processes. Includes composites manufacturing technology efforts for both new production and sustainment/readiness activities for fielded systems.
• Metals Subpanel includes:
  • Manufacturing technology for metals, ceramics, optical materials, certain MMCs and CMCs, and other materials of similar microstructure. Processes associated with metals fabrication include machining, casting, forging, joining, powder metallurgy, heat treatment, fabrication, surface conditioning, and treatments. Other associated technologies include nondestructive testing and evaluation; computational modeling and simulation of materials, materials processes, and machining processes; and additive manufacturing. Includes manufacturing technology efforts in both new production and sustainment/readiness activities for fielded systems to include repair activities from the field level to depot level.

If your company would like to schedule a session, please submit a quad chart or a short one-page description of the specific technology concept you wish to discuss and the specific JMPI or Subpanel you wish to meet with to Dr. Chuck Ward at charles.ward@arctos-us.com. Be sure to include which area you want to meet with as well.

*This is not a solicitation for proposals, but a mechanism to connect industry with the government subject matter experts.

Back again by popular demand! 

What we’re trying to achieve through the FIRST® Robotics demonstration at DMC: We’d like to celebrate the successes of the next generation as they apply engineering principles to solving problems through robotics. We want to encourage the work they’ve done and hope to inspire them to continue in the field and hopefully take over from us in moving Defense Manufacturing forward.

 Join us during the Networking Lunch, Wednesday, November 19, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

In the HUB to meet and engage with the teams and see firsthand their technologies.

What is FIRST®?

• For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology.
• Founded by Dean Kamen in 1992.
• Consists of robotics competition teams which design, program, and build a robot starting with a standard kit of parts and common set of rules to play in a themed head-to-head challenge.
• Events include:
• FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition)- Typically High School teams building 120lb robot;
• FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge)- Typically middle or high school teams building smaller (desktop size) robot;
• FLL (FIRST Lego League)- Typically elementary and middle school teams that use lego components to build small robots on a game-table size playing field.

Find more information about FIRST here.