RFT Manufacturing Innovation Institute: A New Industry/Government Partnership to Meet Future Defense and Commercial Needs Update for IFAI Expo 26 September 2017 Mr. Stephen Luckowski US Army ARDEC, AFFOA Government Program Manager [email protected], 973-724-3373 Mr. Abhai Kumar ANSER/OSD, Principal Analyst [email protected], 703-416-3320 Background • Manufacturing is a matter of national security – as a driver of the US economy and as a source of critical technology for the military • Government’s overarching objective: Unleash new US advanced manufacturing capabilities and industries for stronger global competitiveness and US economic and national security • Manufacturing innovation institutes enable the Government to leverage the effectiveness of regional and national public-private partnerships to spur domestic manufacturing innovation and competitiveness in key technology areas • There are 14 manufacturing innovation institutes within the Manufacturing USA network: Departments of Defense (8), Energy (5) and Commerce (1) • Federal investment of $75-110M each (DoD institutes) over 5 years • Each institute serves as a regional hub of manufacturing excellence to: • Bring together industry, academia and federal, state agencies • Accelerate manufacturing innovation; bridge gap between basic research and product development (applied R&D) • Invest in manufacturing technologies important to both industry and Government • Educate and train students and workers in advanced manufacturing skills • Build lasting manufacturing capabilities and ecosystem. 1
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DISTRIBUTION F: Further dissemination only as directed by ODASD(MIBP) Manufacturing Technology Office (8 August 2017) or higher DoD authority.
RFT Manufacturing Innovation Institute:A New Industry/Government Partnership to Meet Future
Defense and Commercial Needs
Update for IFAI Expo26 September 2017
Mr. Stephen LuckowskiUS Army ARDEC, AFFOA Government Program Manager
• Manufacturing is a matter of national security – as a driver of the US economy and as a source of critical technology for the military
• Government’s overarching objective: Unleash new US advanced manufacturing capabilities and industries for stronger global competitiveness and US economic and national security
• Manufacturing innovation institutes enable the Government to leverage the effectiveness of regional and national public-private partnerships to spur domestic manufacturing innovation and competitiveness in key technology areas
• There are 14 manufacturing innovation institutes within the Manufacturing USA network: Departments of Defense (8), Energy (5) and Commerce (1)
• Federal investment of $75-110M each (DoD institutes) over 5 years
• Each institute serves as a regional hub of manufacturing excellence to:• Bring together industry, academia and federal, state agencies• Accelerate manufacturing innovation; bridge gap between basic research and product development
(applied R&D)• Invest in manufacturing technologies important to both industry and Government• Educate and train students and workers in advanced manufacturing skills• Build lasting manufacturing capabilities and ecosystem.
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Institute
Applied Research & Demo Projects - Reducing cost/risk on commercializing new technologies, Solving pre-competitive industrial problems
Tech Integration - Development of innovative methodologies and practices for supply chain integration Small/Medium Enterprises -
Engagement with small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs)
Key Institute Activities
Role of Government in this Public/Private Partnership
• OSD Leadership and Support: Tracy Frost, Director DoD Manufacturing USA institutes
• Institute Leadership: Army-led government team Government Program Manager: Steve Luckowski, US Army Armaments Research Development and Engineering Center
Contracting: Travis Clemons, Lauren McDermott, Army Contracting Command-NJ
• Team of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from across the government whose role is identifying market potential, project planning and advisory role during project execution
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Government Interest in Smart Fabrics
• In 2014, the Government surveyed industry on six technology areas to determine the prospect of a Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII)
Based on positive feedback from industry and academia, Revolutionary Fibers and Textiles was chosen to move forward
• In April, 2016, the contract was awarded to Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA) and announced to the public
— AFFOA is a non-profit company spun out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) based in Cambridge, MA
• The Government, particularly the Department of Defense (DoD), sees the value in smart fabrics in helping to reduce weight and enhance capability
— Advanced fabrics can transform soldier survivability, situational awareness, and protection and mobility by incorporating chemical/biological detection, friend/foe identification, energy harvesting, and health monitoring
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• Personnel Parachuting and Cargo Airdrop Systems – Ex. Sensors for detecting strain/wear
• Integrated Soldier Power and Data System • Softwall/Rigidwall Shelters and Base Camp Systems• Undersea optical communications network• Uniform and Vehicle Identification of Friend/Foe (IFF-passive/active)• Soldier Uniforms – Thermal management, Chemical/Biological/
Project Call 1 Timeline:November, 2016 – Request for white papers releasedApril, 2017 – Final proposals receivedJune, 2017 – Final projects down-selectedSeptember, 2017 – First project awardedNovember, 2017 – Second project call
Technical Execution
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Product Strategy
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• The product strategy is to create a national network of “advanced fabric” startup incubators and connect them with market-facing companies to enable exciting product ideas to emerge across the country
— This enables the institute to fulfill its goal of delivering “fabrics as a service”
• AFFOA is developing a product plan and roadmap with quarterly core demonstration projects
• Several product prototypes have already been developed:— LOOKS Product Platform:
Programmable backpack is the first product prototypeUses woven functional fabric and LOOKS software
— LiFi Product Platform: Uses lights to transmit data to fabrics which receive the informationAFFOA created the first fiber to enable weaving LiFi technology into shirts, hats or other textiles for indoor navigation, perspective-based content delivery, etc.
LOOKS backpack
LiFi-enabled hat
Education and Workforce Development Process
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Fabric Discovery Centers (FDCs)
End-to-End Prototyping Facilities
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Each FDC has its own distinct capability:Massachusetts: • Headquarters (electronic fibers)• Defense (unclassified and classified work)• Joint use (AFFOA, NextFlex)PennsylvaniaNorth CarolinaGeorgia 21
AFFOA Start-up Incubator Strategy
FDC Facility Layout
• The FDCs’ provide startup incubation space and other support to accelerate the formation of advanced functional fabric start-up companies
• The network of FDCs is expected to promote product innovation for the textile industry and thus, transition institute-developed technologies into commercial products
Defense Fabric Discovery Center (FDC)
Based at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (LL), the Defense FDC leverages a joint team, core competencies and existing facilities at LL, Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) and AFFOA
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“Blue Teaming” Approach to Defense FDC Roadmap Projects
Army Stakeholders:
• Combat Vehicle Protection
• Aviation Protection and Mobility
• Soldier survivability / protection
• Soldier load reduction
• Soldier situational awareness improvement
Navy Stakeholders:
• Low cost undersea acoustic sensor arrays
• Undersea optical comms
• Fiber antenna concept
Intelligence Community/Other Stakeholders:
• Secure communication
• Other
Understand Key Capability Gaps1 Develop System ConceptsLeveraging Advanced Fibers
2 Innovate on Enabling Fiber Technology
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• Develop Technology
• Prototype System Concept
Viable?
No
Yes
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Perform System analysis
Identification and communications fabrics
Photonic fibers
Projects driven by system concepts enabled by advanced functional fiber technology
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Viable?
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DASD, Emerging Capabilities & Prototyping
• Other GAs covering broad set of DoD problem space
Raise awareness to new capabilities
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Joint team of Lincoln Laboratory, NSRDEC and AFFOA provides near-term capability and long-term mechanism for stakeholder inputProvide immediate capability to perform work on classified DoD products
– Reduce time and program risk compared to obtaining facility clearance for non-Federal facilities
– Establish more refined boundaries in classification guide to help facilitate commercial manufacturing, while protecting critical data
Transition and share unclassified manufacturing processes to other FDC’s and industry partners through a central data repositoryProvides $6.25M of equipment capability as cost share to the Federal commitment of $3M to the FDC (2:1 cost share)Provides linkage of other Lincoln Laboratory Federal customers to fiber and textile technologies
Defense FDC Benefits to DoD
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In Summary
• AFFOA is a national manufacturing institute, within the Manufacturing USA network, that’s been set up as a public-private partnership with national reach in order to spur domestic manufacturing and innovation
• The institute is leading the fabric revolution by creating a range of technologies from fiber devices to fabric systems
• AFFOA provides access to new technology, a rapid prototyping network, and start-up assistance via the Fabric Discovery Centers
• Provide shared assets and knowledge to help companies access cutting-edge capabilities and equipment
• Provides the opportunity to participate in future technology project calls for research
• The institute is 18 months into the 5-year period of Federal investment
• AFFOA is set up to enable opportunities beyond the traditional government contract thereby being well positioned to meet current and future defense and commercial needs