Defense Wide Manufacturing Science and Technology Program

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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. The Manufacturing Innovation Institutes program funding is also included in this program element. 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 Institutes (MII) 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 MIIs, 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.

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Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date: Oct 01, 2017
Source ID: 0603680D8Z_3_0400_PB_2017
Change Summary Explanation: Two project codes are used in this Program Element (PE) to distinguish between the level of funding for the Core OSD Manufacturing Technology program (P680) and the Manufacturing Innovation Institutes (P350). The growth in funding in this PE from prior President's budgets is wholly associated with the addition of the MII (P350) program. P350 Manufacturing Innovation Institutes (MII) - issues affecting year-to-year changes: 1) Cooperative Agreement (CA) five-year funding profiles for each of eight institutes are not straight-line funded in each year, but instead are incrementally increased and decreased across five fiscal years, with the third year being the peak year. This profile leverages the ability to attain matching funds from industry and academia partners for R&D projects. 2) The number of institutes changes from five in FY 2015 to six in FY 2016, and to eight in FY 2017. 3) FY 2016 and FY 2017 are the peak years for funding for the MII program, with significant annual decreases programmed annually subsequent to FY 2017.
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