Defense Wide Manufacturing Science and Technology Program
Abstract
The Defense-wide Manufacturing Science and Technology (DMS&T) program is the joint, defense-wide component of the DoD Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Program directed in Title 10 U.S.C. Section 2521, the latter of which represents the Department’s comprehensive advanced manufacturing program focused on enabling the strategic goals of timely, affordable delivery of dominant technologies to the warfighter, and improving the acquisition and sustainment of defense products and systems across their life cycles. Designing for manufacturability early in the development of defense-essential products and systems can yield dramatic and positive impacts for the Department’s operational and modernization missions. The DMS&T component of the DoD ManTech program specifically focuses on the development of cross-cutting and potentially game-changing manufacturing technologies, processes and capabilities that are typically beyond the scope or risk of any one Military Department or Defense Agency or platform.These high-leverage, defense-wide investments are designed to benefit the performance, affordability, and delivery timelines/deployment cycles of many of the department’s most essential products and systems in ways that are not typically achievable through the efforts of a single service, agency or program office. The DMS&T program, therefore, is a unique and fundamental DoD ManTech Program component that is needed to optimize a coordinated manufacturing technology development process across the department broadly. Concurrent development of manufacturing processes and capabilities along with S&T development enables the timely, affordable adoption and deployment of emerging technologies needed to maintain U.S. warfighting dominance. Key DMS&T technical areas for investment include Advanced Electronics and Optics Manufacturing, Advanced Materials Manufacturing, Enterprise and Emerging Manufacturing, and respective technology focus areas addressed by each of the DoD-led manufacturing innovation institutes (discussed in the next paragraph). 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. Manufacturing innovation institutes established by the DoD and part of the whole-of-government Manufacturing USA Program are also funded in this program element. Technical innovation and leadership in U.S. manufacturing are essential to sustaining the foundations of industrial competitiveness to enable our military to maintain technological advantage and global dominance. Eight DoD Manufacturing USA institutes have been established to serve as regional hubs accelerating technological innovation and associated production processes and educational/workforce competencies for military and commercial applications via shared public-private sectors. These Manufacturing USA institutes, supported by resources from multiple U.S. Government agencies, are generating significant industry cost-share for manufacturing innovation and are forming new technology transition pathways via regional hubs spurring active collaboration among government, industry, and academia to help meet critical government and warfighter needs. The overall concept of the Manufacturing USA program (previously named the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation until changed in FY16) and the design of its manufacturing innovation institutes are provided in several key federal documents; among them: 1) the President’s National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) report by the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office entitled, “National Network for Manufacturing Innovation: A Preliminary Design,” published in January 2013, and more recently, in the following two NSTC reports: 2) ”National Network for Manufacturing Innovation Program Strategic Plan” and 3) “National Network for Manufacturing Innovation Annual Report,” both published in February 2016.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- 0603680D8Z_3_0400_PB_2018
- Change Summary Explanation
- Two project codes are used in this Program Element (PE) to distinguish between DMS&T Manufacturing Technology investments (P680) and the manufacturing innovation institute investments (P350). The growth in funding in this PE from prior President's budgets is primarily associated with P350 investments. P350 Manufacturing Innovation Institutes - issues affecting year-to-year changes: 1) Cooperative agreement (CA) and technology investment agreement (TIA) five-year funding profiles for each of eight institutes are not straight-line funded in each year, but instead are incrementally increased and then decreased across five fiscal years, with the third year being the peak year. This profile leverages the ability to optimally attain matching funds from industry and academia partners for R&D projects. 2) The number of institutes changed from six in FY 2016 to eight in FY 2017. 3) FY 2016 and FY 2017 are the peak funding years supporting establishment of the eight DoD-led Manufacturing USA institutes, with significant annual decreases programmed annually thereafter.
- Service Agency Name
- Office of the Secretary Of Defense
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
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