ANN ARBOR —A nationwide know-how competitors seeks progressive options for upkeep and sustainment operations sponsored yearly by the Nationwide Middle for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) to supply the Division of Protection (DOD) with new methods to streamline upkeep and sustainment operations.
The 2024 Industrial Applied sciences for Upkeep Actions (CTMA) Expertise Competitors highlights progressive applied sciences that allow extra agile, environment friendly, efficient and inexpensive strategies for sustaining high-value belongings, in addition to enabling advances in logistics and enterprise processes.
NCMS is a 38-year-old group whose mission is to create alternatives for high-performance corporations to work collaboratively with authorities suppliers and end-users who want their know-how improvements and options. As a member-based nonprofit group, it has constructed an unlimited community of companions in business, authorities, and academia to speed up the event, demonstration, and transition of progressive applied sciences effectively, with much less threat and at decrease value.
The evaluation and choice course of for know-how competitors contributors might be overseen by prime DOD upkeep leaders, offering broad visibility to all contributors. Three finalists might be chosen to present stay displays to a panel of judges and convention attendees on the NCMS Annual Companions Assembly Might 7-9 in Windfall, RI. The judges will then convene to find out the general winner, and the general public will vote for a Individuals's Alternative winner.
NCMS will present assist funds – $100,000 to the general prize winner and $25,000zero to the Individuals's Alternative award winner. Each awards can be utilized to assist a future demonstration undertaking underneath the CTMA Program. The submission interval is open, and the deadline for purposes is March 1, 2024.