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Our program is focused on the

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efficiency and affordability of

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technologies and we enhance those

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things through enhancing the

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manufacturing processes for that . And

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the end goal is to support weapons

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systems to enhance warfighter

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capabilities . We are at the Watervliet

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arsenal are engineering facility is

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part of A . F . C . Def . Com armament

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center and our mission is to provide

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research , design and development of

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large caliber cannon . The project that

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we have is called electrochemical

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machining for armament manufacturing

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for future cannon designs and looking

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at alternative materials we needed to

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have a different approaching process or

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rifling process to be able to rifle

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large caliber cannons approaching is a

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conventional manufacturing process that

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uses a successive set of approaches

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that shear off very small amounts of

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material . Approach sets are very

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expensive . So with electrochemical

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machining it's a non contact process .

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So your tooling is much much cheaper .

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We can get faster processing rates and

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get an improved quality . With this

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process . This project started off as

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an S and T development effort . As the

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technology matured , it was

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transitioned to a man tech program with

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the support of the Man Tech office .

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This technology will reach a

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manufacturing readiness level to allow

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it to be transitioned into production

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manufacturing processes . This was

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specifically under the Man tech program

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for the M 24 which is on the palatine

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system . But the technology is also

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very pervasive . So we could use this

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on one of five millimeter , we can use

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this on 776 which is the M 77 towed

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artillery system . Long range artillery .

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We can use it for that as well . The

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investment of the Army Man Tech office

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in electrochemical machining allows us

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to advance the technology that

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currently exists for rifling large

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caliber cannon . It will also offer us

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flexibility and agility moving forward

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into our newer designs so that we may

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provide superior weapons systems . I

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considered a success because we started

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out as a very small effort and then we

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built this full scale facility and then

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demonstrated that we can rifle large

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caliber cannons with it . We've been

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doing this for the Man Tech program

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since fiscal year 19 . So we just ended

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our four year program and we're now

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going into our transition phase where

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we're taking that from A . M . R . L .

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Seven technology and pushing that out

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to the shop floor . It's very vital to

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the mission because whatever the US war

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fighter has to use within combat

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situations , it has to be manufactured .

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And if we can't manufacture it , if we

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can't manufacture enough of it , then

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it reduces our ability to have

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overmatch against the adversary