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Equipping Tomorrow's Military Force Integration of Commercial and Military Manufacturing in 2010 and Beyond (2002) / Chapter Skim
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... Commercial suppliers are willing to sell COTS products to the Depatrtment of Defense (DOD) using commercial practices supported by current policies.
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... The transformation strategy implicitly relies on the rapid introduction of new technology and rapid industrial response for the replenishment of weapons, spare parts, and other consumables essential to readiness and sustainability. The fact that potential adversaries have easy access to commercial technology will compel DOD and defense contractors to excel at being the first to integrate militarily relevant commercial technology into defense systems.
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... USAF ManTech C-17 horizontal stabilizer outer torque box M/A-COM Northrop Grumman ALQ-135 EW System Pushed the envelope to demonstrate that a highperformance, military-unique system could be developed from commercial sources Subcontracted 80% of circuit board production to commercial sources and realized higher quality and lower costs Used commercial standards, parts, and design practices to achieve cost reductions of 20-50% Demonstrated that electronic modules for the F-16 and RAM-66 could be redesigned for commercial manufacture and produced on a high-volume commercial line, with savings of 30-50% in cost and 90% in time from design release to production Signal processor (ground environment) used commercial plastic encapsulated microcircuits to reduce costs by 85% and increase reliability (more than 6 million hours without failure)
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... ; . Advances in precision automated manufacturing for small lots, with greatly improved flexibility to accommodate on-demand manufacturing of defense items; Availability of technology for automated design, production, and in-line inspection and testing that, by 2010, will offer to electromechanical and MEMS devices a level of manufacturing flexibility and integration comparable to the production infrastructure for today's chips and boards; · Commercial upgrades to aging avionics, a major opportunity for ICMM because upgrading using mil-spec configurations is usually unaffordable and often impossible; and · Advances in the ability to share digital product data and business data in supply chains, with new efficiencies in rapid response manufacturing of the type needed by DOD.
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... The academy would have a research component to develop best practices and case studies as well as a training component to incorporate commercial practices into military acquisition training and processes. · Fund and execute additional rapid-response demonstration programs to build a broad base of experience with ICMM.
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  • million hours
  • contracting officers
  • commercial cycles
  • requalification requirements

  • recommendations recommendations
  • easy access
  • commercial upgrades
  • industrial response
  • training component

  • improved flexibility
  • torque box
  • implementing guidelines
  • motivate change
  • commercial technologies

  • plastic encapsulated
  • sustained initiatives
  • usually unaffordable
  • specialized specs
  • viable business


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