Integrity Service Excellence AFA Technology Symposium Maj Gen Andrew Busch OO-ALC/CC 3 Sept 2009 Air Force Materiel Command.

Integrity Service Excellence

AFA Technology Symposium

Maj Gen Andrew BuschOO-ALC/CC3 Sept 2009

Air Force Materiel CommandAir Force Materiel Command

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Overview

• OO-ALC core competencies• Technology and the ALC• Funded Projects• Summary

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OO-ALC Core Competencies

Weapon SystemManagement

Supply Chain Management

Readiness

ICBM, F-16, A-10, F-22, C-130,

Landing Gear, Power Systems, Software,

Composites, Hydraulics/Pneudraulics

F-16, A-10, T-38, Space & C3I

Munitions, Simulators and Trainers

Munitions, Space & C3I

Provide Combat-Ready Airmen

DepotMaintenance

Technology and the ALC

• Tech development is one of our skills, but not a core competency

• Technology need areas– Balance investment costs and production pressures– Environmental stewardship– NDI technologies– Plating & coatings technologies – Composite materials and repair technologies– Corrosion resistance technologies

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FY10 SBIR Funded Projects

• NDI methods for HVOF coated components• Rapid assembly of durable composite radome

panels and radome mounting interface• Rapid assembly, energy efficient composite

shelter• Improved landing gear grinding / finishing

methods on hardened wear resistant surfaces

Summary

• Keep the focus; maintain the momentum• Small businesses are having success• Technology investment must continue

Questions?

Technology Transfer Vehicles

Educational Partnership Agreements (EPA)

Manufacturing Technology

(MANTECH)

Depot Technology Modernization

Program (DTMP)

Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA)

TECHNOLOGY INSERTION

OO-ALC/EN

Reduction in Total Ownership Cost (RTOC)

Quick Reaction Funds (QRF)

Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)

Defense Acquisition Challenge Program (DACP)

Technology Transition Initiative (TTI)

Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)

Applied Technology Demonstrations (ATD)

Commercial Technologies for Maintenance Activities (CTMA)

AFRL Projects

Center has used

Foreign Comparative Testing (FCT) Program

Technology Transfer Vehicles

• Notes on Tech Transfer Vehicles

1000 hrs

2000 hrs

Panels Remove

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Corrosion Testing

Replacement of Cd plating

500 hrs

No visib

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Current Cd Process Zn Ni Process

Product Development Schedule

• HVOF ID Gun

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Product• Eliminates chrome emissions• Improves part longevity• Saves energy (eLog21)• Supports Lean transformation• Keeps depot work organic• Increases through-put

Next generation HVOF rotating torch to coat internal diameters

Replace a “wet” application applied to the ID of parts with a “dry” and environmentally

friendly sprayed application

Benefit to Warfighter

Technology Challenges

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• HVOF & Plasma ID Gun

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Rotating ID Gun Capability

Notes for ID Gun

• F-15 MLG inner cylinder• B-1 MLG outer cylinder• Both are overhauled very frequently in our

shop and we have to chrome plate internal surfaces on both. The AF currently has only one option to coat these areas and that is with chrome plating. The ID HVOF gun will give the AF the option to deposit other materials that are environmentally friendly and more importantly, they outperform chrome.

• ID Gun is applicable for many parts, F-15 & B-1 are just examples of high volume work.

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Laser De-Coating System

OO-ALC Gun Tube Bore

Before: 30 mm Gun Tube Bores Plated With Chrome• Short Gun Tube Life Expectancy Due

to Plating Wear-Out• Plating Process Creates Waste

Stream (Chrome Dissolved In Liquid Medium)

After: New 30 mm Gun Tube Bore Plating Material and Process• Initial Firing Tests Show Enhanced

Wear Properties• New Process Reduces Waste Stream• Due to Initial Results, Army, Navy

and OEM Now Participating

Parts Manufacturer Approval (PMA)

• A combined design and production approval for modification and replacement parts. It allows a manufacturer to produce and sell these parts for installation on type certificated products. The F-16 program approves materials, processes, appliances and other parts by other means like a Technical Standards Order (TSO) or in conjunction with a type certificate. Order 8110.42 prescribes the approval procedures for FAA personnel and guides applicants in the approval process. The design approval phase of PMA certifies that a replacement or modification part complies with the airworthiness standards of eligible products (aircraft, engine or propeller).

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