Emerging Manufacturing
Abstract
Emerging Manufacturing is a series of new efforts addressing advanced manufacturing technologies and enterprise business practices for defense applications. Initiatives and projects under development will continue to identify and transition advanced manufacturing processes/technologies that will achieve significant productivity and efficiency gains in the defense manufacturing base. The key focus areas are: power and energy, disruptive green and electronic technology, survivability, directed energy, manufacturing technologies to accelerate delivery of technical capabilities to impact current warfighting operations, and manufacturing technologies to reduce the cost, acquisition time and risk of our major defense acquisition programs. In directed energy, manufacturing improvements are sought for ground, sea, air, and space based directed energy weapons to enable fielding of these weapons on cost and schedule In addition, manufacturing improvements are also sought for human and sensor protection against directed energy threats In survivability, manufacturing improvements are sought for ballistic protection for both personnel and weapon systems, for low observables, and for countermeasures so that our personnel and systems can be protected affordably and on schedule. In disruptive green and electronic technology, manufacturing improvements are sought for improvements in power and energy sources such as lithium ion batteries, solar cells, and fuel cells to enable affordable and reliable fielding of these energy sources, in green technologies such as lead free solder, nanotechnology for electronics, and other environmentally friendly manufacturing methods to reduce the hazardous waste stream in the industrial base and in the logistics depots, and in fuel efficiency through lightweight structures and advanced propulsion for ground, sea, air, and space structures, in electronics for chip scale atomic clock manufacturing throughput improvements.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 7c6d158721d1d0458a42f9d2133d8aed