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If we can't make it, the warfighter can't have it!
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Join us at the Manufacturing Conference 2024 from Dec 2-5 in Austin, TX!
“Accelerating America’s Manufacturing Advantage to Win the Great Power Competition"
This year’s theme underscores the pivotal role of innovation in ensuring military strength. With over 1,000 leaders from government, industry, and academia expected at DMC 2024, this is a premier venue to discuss strategic policies and cutting-edge technologies shaping our defense landscape.
Don’t miss out on networking and collaboration in the expanded Exhibit Hall!
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United States manufacturing and innovation are essential to American economic and national security. Maintaining U.S. influence and access to markets in a stable global environment contributes to our prosperity and standard of living. It is the responsibility of the Department of Defense (DoD) to innovate and equip our forces with the best tools possible, made by Americans. The DoD Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) enterprise attempts to utilize advanced manufacturing to secure a more lethal force, strengthen alliances and partnerships, and reform the Department for greater performance and affordability.
The mission of the program is to anticipate and close gaps in manufacturing capabilities for affordable, timely, and low-risk development, production, and sustainment of defense systems through technology development and adoption and training.
U.S. Department of Defense, Manufacturing Technology Program: Developing Disruptive & Transformational Solutions
If we can't make it, the warfighter can't have it!
This video highlights a few of the innovative projects DoD ManTech has supported across DoD.
The vision of the program is a responsive, world-class manufacturing capability to affordability and rapidly meet warfighter needs throughout the defense system life cycle, within the Defense Industrial and Organic Base.
Although DoD ManTech has a singular mission and shared strategic vision, all of the projects and initiatives are selected and executed through the Military Services and DoD Agencies. Each Component has its own ManTech program, with organization-specific processes, mandates, and procedures for executing their projects:
Army ManTech Program
facilitates a partnership among the Science and Technology (S&T) community, industry, the Army’s organic industrial base (OIB), the Program Executive Offices and Product Managers to ensure viable and realistic transition of technology to a program of record. The Army uses a broad spectrum of applications with a focus on initiatives for ground, air, network, Soldier, and weapon systems and platforms.
Navy ManTech Program
concentrates resources on reducing both the acquisition and life-cycle costs of key Navy acquisition programs. Navy ManTech transitions manufacturing technology which, when implemented, results in a cost reduction or cost avoidance. Navy ManTech develops an integrated investment strategy that is approved annually by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) leadership.
Air Force ManTech Program
invests in five technology pillars: Advanced Concepts; Hypersonic Strike; Attritable and Low-Cost Systems; Networked Command, Control, and Communication Systems; and Emerging Technology.
DLA Research and Development
(R&D) employs two major lines of effort: Industrial Base and Aging Weapon System Support and Three-Dimensional (3D) Technical Data Modernization/Model Based Enterprise. Focus areas include: Advanced Microcircuit Emulation, Batteries, Digital Twin/Digital Thread, Additive Manufacturing, Castings and Forgings, Subsistence, and Clothing and Textiles.
OSD MSTP
focuses on a diverse set of identified joint, defense-critical, and sometimes high-risk manufacturing technology areas. The portfolio works on cross-cutting national security manufacturing needs to stimulate the early development of manufacturing processes concurrent with technology development and workforce training.
The directors and senior managers of these programs coordinate through the auspices of the Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Panel
(JDMTP)
. The JDMTP is chartered to identify and integrate requirements, conduct joint program planning, and develop joint strategies. DoD oversight of the ManTech Programs is provided by the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
The
2022 DoD ManTech Program Strategic Plan
focuses on four thrust areas for the next five years. It provides the basis for the coordination of DoD Service and Agency ManTech efforts and provides plans to our stakeholders, other government entities, industry, and academia.
Guided by nine goals under the four thrust areas, the DoD ManTech enterprise focuses on delivering high-priority solutions across the portfolio of manufacturing technology investments to meet defense manufacturing needs:
Thrust Area 1: Advance Manufacturing Technology
Goal 1.1: Identify and prioritize manufacturing technology or capability gaps to meet Service and Agency missions
Goal 1.2: Advance the state of manufacturing maturity and enhance production and sustainment
Thrust Area 2: Strengthen Joint Planning and Coordination
Goal 2.1: Define national needs and technology imperatives
Goal 2.2: Identify and prioritize multi-Service or -Agency DoD manufacturing gaps via Joint Manufacturing Planning Initiatives
Goal 2.3: Develop tailored management and investment approaches
Thrust Area 3: Expand Outreach and Communication
Goal 3.1: Foster alignment with external stakeholders to address manufacturing gaps and bolster supply chain resiliency
Goal 3.2: Disseminate program results throughout the industrial base to enable transition
Thrust Area 4: Educate and Develop Manufacturing Workforce
Goal 4.1: Identify current and future education and workforce requirements for the DoD organic and industrial base
Goal 4.2: Strengthen the educational pipeline and develop a next-generation manufacturing workforce
DoD ManTech employs an array of management tools, measures, and metrics to guide the program and ensure results. In short, this strategic plan explains how the DoD ManTech Program enables swift technology transition from concept to successful fielding.
DoD ManTech News
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Inspiring the Next Generation: DoD ManTech Direc...
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Oct. 29, 2024
INDIANAPOLIS — Keith DeVries, director of the Department of Defense’s Manufacturing Technology (DoD ManTech)...
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DoD ManTech Seeks Innovation Manufacturing Solut...
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Oct. 29, 2024
The Department of Defense (DoD) Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) program is seeking to identify novel...
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DoD ManTech Announces Leadership Changes: Stephe...
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Oct. 23, 2024
The Department of Defense (DoD) Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) program recently announced two leadership...
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ARM Institute Celebrates 2024 Class of Champions
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Oct. 15, 2024
The ARM Institute Champion Awards celebrate individuals from across the ARM Institute’s 400+ member...
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New Education & Workforce Development Project Call
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Oct. 15, 2024
The ARM Institute is excited to release our new Education & Workforce Development (EWD) Project Call centered...
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2024 Advanced Materials Challenge Project Call
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Oct. 15, 2024
LIFT and the Department of Defense today announced the launch of the 2024 Advanced Materials Challenge. The...
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OSD ManTech Newsletter April - June 2024
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| Nov. 20, 2024
Register for GovTravels 2025 now through January 23, 2025 and save on registration! The Symposium will be held February 24 - 27, 2025 in Alexandria, Virginia.
Defense Innovation Unit Announces Software Vendors to Support Replicator
By
| Nov. 20, 2024
Today the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) announced contract awards to select software developers supporting the Replicator initiative. These vendors are playing a key role in advancing resilient command and control (C2) and collaborative autonomy solutions for all domain attritable autonomous (ADA2) systems.
Shop 31 employees custom build portable milling machine to support work on submarine hatches
By Max Maxfield, PSNS & IMF Public Affairs
| Nov. 20, 2024
The expert toolmakers in Shop 31, Inside Machinist, recently answered the call to quickly design,
Stratcom Commander Discusses Nuclear System Modernization
By Army Maj. Wes Shinego
| Nov. 20, 2024
The commander of U.S. Strategic Command spoke on the critical role of nuclear deterrence and its supporting platforms in securing U.S. strategic dominance and maintaining global stability at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
DSCC celebrates Marine Corps’ 249th birthday
By Stefanie Hauck
| Nov. 20, 2024
The Marine Corps has been at the forefront of every battle since its inception on November 10, 1775. Current and former Marines at Defense Supply Center Columbus celebrated this legacy with a birthday celebration on Nov. 13 at the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime Operations Center.
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