Enterprise and Emerging Manufacturing
Abstract
Enterprise and Emerging Manufacturing addresses advanced manufacturing technologies and business practices for defense applications. Key focus areas include direct digital (or additive) manufacturing, advanced manufacturing enterprise, machining, robotics, assembly, and joining. Projects selected will accelerate delivery of technical capabilities to impact current warfighting operations while reducing cost, acquisition time, and risk of major defense acquisition programs. It is paramount for the U.S. military to improve its own agility and flexibility. The focus is to find a solution to overcome a burdensome acquisition cycle requiring a great amount of cost, time, security, and storage space. Through the use of secure satellite data links or a local parts database, warfighters can access computer-aided design (CAD) for replacement parts, allowing them to repair equipment without the need to establish supply chains or wait for shipments. It allows operators to modify a part's design based on its performance in the field. Emerging manufacturing technologies undergoing development include: a large-scale challenge for advanced, interoperable machine tool applications, and methods for exchange of 3D official technical data throughout the supply chain and between the Government and contractors. Cyber Initiative: The manufacturing factory floor is a growing area of concern for DoD cyber security because defense contractors throughout the DoD's supply chain are continually targeted by cyber criminals seeking to: 1) steal technical data, including critical national security information and valuable commercial intellectual property; 2) alter data, thereby affecting processes and products; and 3) impair or deny process control, thereby damaging or shutting down operations. Protecting the operational systems of a manufacturing enterprise presents a different set of challenges from protecting enterprise IT systems and networks. This initiative will focus on the objective of securing the environment for American Manufacturing on the shop floor. Efforts will include: developing cyber threat models, creating a tool to visualize and simulate an attack on manufacturing to understand dependencies; engaging an industry consortium for knowledge/data sharing/threat sharing; building an industry consortium that coalesces industry needs and shares critical data; developing a cyber-physical test environment for manufacturing cybersecurity (e.g., how to test protection for work instructions/process documentation; conducting primary research into creating secure protocols for information across the digital thread; and creating supplier management standard processes and certifications (e.g., a critical security control list). Projects: Criticality of American Manufacturing (CAM) (FY 2015): The Defense Systems Information Analysis Center (DSIAC) will provide a detailed analysis of the Criticality of American Manufacturing (CAM) to the resiliency and innovation defense industrial base. The analysis will focus on the criticality of physical and programmatic clustered activity between academia, industry and government to support manufacturing technology and capability. The analysis will address the importance of human capital investment to innovation and the resiliency of the American Manufacturing & Industrial Base. High Power Ultrasonic Assisted Drilling (FY 2015): addresses the problem of high costs of drilling various alloys of significant strength, High KSI Steels, IN625, and Composites by developing ultrasonic technology for hole-drilling applications to improve productivity and tool life by more than 50%. This process potentially impacts all systems that require drilling of holes. MTConnect Challenge Phase II (FY 2015-2016): Promote academia’s educational development and implementation of production interactive solutions to the broad U.S industrial base with the expansion of MTConnect Challenge that contributes to reduced cycle times and the development of real-time production metrics for adaptable dashboard applications. Cyber Security for the Shop Floor – Phase II (FY 2016-2017): A follow-on from a previously funded Phase I Red Team evaluation, this phase II project will develop a Trusted and Assured supply chain, identify threat vulnerabilities of industrial control systems, provide input to DoD policies, and shape follow-on investment to mitigate threat vulnerabilities. Applications span the US Defense Industrial Base.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2017
- Source ID
- fcecbdbd92eca335e6735c3fc6f340c1