Defense Wide Manufacturing Science and Technology Program

Abstract

Defense-wide Manufacturing Science and Technology (DMS&T), established within the Manufacturing Technology Program directed in Title 10 USC Section 2521, provides the Department with a comprehensive manufacturing program to achieve the strategic goals of focused technology, improved acquisition across the life cycles, and cost-effective logistics. By designing for manufacturability early in development, anticipated results will have an impact on increasing reliability and decreasing the life cycle burden of weapon systems. The mission to anticipate and close gaps in defense manufacturing capabilities and drive significant system life cycle affordability benefits makes DMS&T an increasingly important leveraging tool in the current budget environment. DMS&T will: 1) address manufacturing enterprise game-changing initiatives that are beyond the scope of any one Military Department or Defense Agency or platform and, 2) establish and mature cross-cutting manufacturing processes required for transitioning emerging technologies which impact the time lines, affordability, and productivity of acquisition programs and shorten the deployment cycle times. The DMS&T program is fundamental to a coordinated development process. Concurrent development of manufacturing processes with the S&T development enables the use of emerging technologies. Key technical areas for investment for DMS&T include Advanced Electronics and Optics Manufacturing, Advanced Materials Manufacturing, and Enterprise and Emerging Manufacturing. Advanced Electronics and Optics addresses advanced manufacturing technologies for a wide range of applications such as sensors, radars, power generation, switches, and optics for defense applications. Advanced Materials addresses advanced manufacturing technologies for a wide range of materials such as composites, metals, ceramics, nanomaterials, metamaterials, and low observables. Enterprise and Emerging Manufacturing addresses advanced manufacturing technologies and enterprise business practices for defense applications. Key focus areas include the industrial information infrastructure, advanced design/qualification/cost tools, supply network integration technologies and management practices, direct digital (or additive) manufacturing, machining; robotics, assembly, and joining. Institutes for Manufacturing Innovation program funding is also included in this program element (first addressed in the FY 2015 President’s Budget). Technical innovation and leadership in manufacturing are essential to sustaining the foundations of economic prosperity to enable our military to maintain technological advantage and global dominance. To support these goals, Institutes for Manufacturing Innovation (IMI) will serve as regional hubs to accelerate technological innovation into commercial application and concurrently develop the educational competencies and production processes via shared public-private sectors. The establishment of the IMIs, supported by resources from multiple U.S. Government agencies, will spur industry cost-share for manufacturing innovation and quickly develop a pathway for technology-focused regional hubs for collaboration among government, industry, and academia that will meet critical government and Warfighter needs. The concept of these institutes is described in the President’s National Science and Technology Council report by the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office entitled, “National Network for Manufacturing Innovation: A Preliminary Design,” published in January 2013.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2016
• Source ID: 0603680D8Z_3_0400_PB_2016
• Change Summary Explanation: P350 Institutes for Manufacturing Innovation in FY 2016 $95.112 adjustment: Incorporates phased funding for six institutes, three established as of FY2014, two established in FY 2015, and one to be established in FY 2016. FY 2014 $3.0 below threshold reprogramming within AT&L resources to fund P350 Institutes for Manufacturing Innovation requirements. Congressional General Reductions in both FY 2014 and FY 2015 are for FFRDC.
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

• Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Cyber
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Sensors
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Additive Manufacturing
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Advanced Materials
• Aircrafts
• Assembly
• Cost Reductions
• Detectors
• Fabrication
• Infrared Detectors
• Manufacturing
• Materials
• Materials Science
• Optics
• Organic Light Emitting Diodes
• Silicon Carbide
• Supply Chain
• Test And Evaluation

Readers

• Defense Technology Research and Development.
• Manufacturing Engineering.

Technology Areas

• AI & ML
• AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
• Autonomy
• Microelectronics