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3 PublicPrivate Partnerships for Technology Collaboration
3 PublicPrivate Partnerships for Technology Collaboration
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PERSPECTIVE James Peddell, the U.K. Attaché for Defence Research and Technology, provided his perspectives on technology collaboration in emerging areas.
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It is not dissimilar to the defense innovation initiative." Peddell said that technology security is one of the key elements: "We're being driven by similar threats, challenges, and opportunities." Globalization of technol ogy is a key aspect "in terms of technology being found anywhere around the world. But more importantly for us, it is no longer being driven by the defense industry or government and defense." Peddell said that this applies both to the United Kingdom and to the United States.
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It has the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, which covers all S&T for the United Kingdom, excluding the nuclear program. One of the organizations is the Materials and Structure Technology science and technology Centre, which draws together the Materials and Structures Research across defense for all of the other areas.
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for doing advanced technology research, the United Kingdom lacked that capability, and the Disruptive Capabilities Program is an effort to try and achieve similar goals: "I'm not saying this is DARPA, but the majority of the program was spent on trying to address today's service require ments and we lost the funding we were placing on the longer-term, more disruptive, opportunities. So we're trying to reverse that now and the main route is through this Disruptive Capabilities Program." Peddell noted that five topic areas in the Disruptive Capabilities Program are unlocking human capabilities, self-sustaining forces, creating and countering novel and cyber effects, promoting pervasive situational awareness, and generating reli
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In addition to the Disruptive Capabilities Program, the United Kingdom has the Centre for Defence Enterprise, which is part of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. Its goal is to outreach innovation in small-to-medium e nterprises and academia, "the types of organizations which would not normally engage with defense," Peddell explained.
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"We effectively are recognizing we're behind the curve on it. Industry is ahead in utilizing these capabilities and we need to understand them better as we move forward." A workshop participant noted that over many years a lot of technology has been transferred between the two countries.
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And we need to do that together," Peddell said. Another workshop participant asked about the mechanisms that the university centers and the Catapult operation use to share information and work together.
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Nagy referred to the World Manufacturing Forum, which he said has been highly successful. He added that there are currently more than 1,400 companies involved in IMS.
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So IMS suggested linking some of the work packages and saving both project consortiums money. Standards projects work very well, Nagy said.
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"We want people to know that IMS [is] behind the World Manufacturing Forum, but we don't want to be exclusive to regions of the world that are not members of the organization,"2 Nagy explained.
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If you came forward to the European Commission on one of these programs with a project idea that fit the IMS requirements, they actually gave you extra consideration. So there was a lot of interest in Europe for jumping in IMS and getting funded for it out of the European Commission." The Consumer Services for Global Production Networks addressed a problem of global supply chains in manufacturing and because of that it was helpful to the project to have participants from different parts of the world, Ray explained.
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They can actually evaluate ergonomic behavior," which enables the trainer to determine whether someone is doing a process incorrectly, Ray added. Romero discussed a project called Product Lifecycle Management and Infor mation Tracking using Smart Embedded Systems (PROMISE)
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The project focused on first developing smart product embedded information devices, some kind of first-generation advanced RFID tags, and then building the system that would aggregate all the data. The most important aspect was the deci sion support system and knowledge management tools to enable exploitation of the information.
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Microwave technology has allowed these companies to drastically reduce their energy costs. Ray added that the companies indicated they normally left electrically heated ovens on all weekend because it took too long to cool down and ramp up again.
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We found that the automotive sector, through the Automotive Industry Action Group, and the aerospace sector, through this project called Lotar, were both working the same problem in different but complementary ways." The aerospace actors, focusing on representation, and the automotive actors, focusing on both the archiving process and the retrieval process, were brought together under IMS. Ray said that he contacts additive manufacturing companies and asks them about the problems that keep them up at night: "A couple themes emerged.
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The third part of the World Manufacturing Forum is to raise awareness of issues in manufacturing and bring together people who can make changes with leaders in manufacturing at a high level to exchange ideas. Another participant asked about core funding from the governments and their organizational capacity.
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competitive ness and technological dominance in advanced manufacturing. These are public– private collaborations, with a goal of focusing on what is commonly referred to as "the valley of death," meaning manufacturing readiness level range of four to seven.
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. Edison Welding Institute, Ohio State University, and University of Michigan united to form a new nonprofit called American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII)
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For each of the verticals, ALMMII also has crosscutting pillars. These include integrated computational materials engineering, design, life cycle analysis, valida tion, and certification.
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The Department of Energy's Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, the Department of Commerce, and the NNMI are also addressing their issues in parallel because they also involve the Department of Energy and DoD. "And within DoD, the Army has different council than Navy and Air Force," DeLoach added.
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The company also makes everything from plates 4 or 5 inches in thickness down to coils of foil on the order of three thousandths of an inch thick of high-performance titanium alloys and steels. Bayha noted that ATI utilizes a lot of basic research tools, especially at uni versities with good microscope facilities.
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We use plasma arc melting and electron beam melting in our titanium facilities which are really high-performance melt capabilities," Bayha explained. The processes the company works on are designed to eliminate defects in aerospace materials and to ensure that materials perform as expected.
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The company is involved in several consortia, such as the Metals Affordability Initiative. The company is part of a new center for nonferrous materials that is coordinating the faculty expertise from the University of North Texas and Colorado School of Mines.
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That process can produce a seamless tube that does not require welding, thereby eliminating defects. A workshop participant asked about how some Chinese companies had, virtu ally overnight, dramatically improved their metal production facilities with new equipment and started producing higher quality products.
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Another participant asked where ATI gets its titanium and in what forms it comes. "Titanium is beach sand," Bayha explained.
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"So we have to have rules that govern foreign participation to ensure that the fruits of the Institutes' labor don't just get shipped overseas and not result in additional capability and jobs and whatnot here in the United States." Another participant asked if the Department of Energy has legislation that prevents the agency from making any awards unless there is substantial manufac ture in the United States. DeLoach replied that the Lightweight Metals Institute's restrictions were unlike those imposed upon the Department of Energy.
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And that's probably not the right way to think about this." DeLoach emphasized that the Navy is grappling with the issue: "You want some level of structure, you don't want it to just be a completely ad-hoc, case-by-case, very limited structure associated with it because there's a fear that somewhere along the line you're going to get tripped and it may be months or years down the line before you realize you were tripped up and there's nothing you can do about it. But, on the other hand, we realize there's such a diversity of technologies and sub-technologies, businesses, the focus of the institute; what you would do for an immature technology or budding technology like digital design and manufactur ing might be different than the approach that you take for something a bit more mature like metals technologies." Another participant observed that DeLoach is "stuck between a rock and a hard place because on one side, you've got this mission to reduce costs and to use R&D dollars as effectively as you can.
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And we just don't want to expose ourselves and people to that," DeLoach continued. A participant observed that many organizations overseas try to copy what the United States does in terms of international collaboration.
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He continued, "Now there are some states, like Ohio, that basically have said ‘we have a metric and it's jobs created in Ohio.'" DeLoach said that the Navy is working with the states to gain some flexibility. Another participant asked about what happens at the end of the cooperative agreement when the federal dollars dry out: Are there new provisions?
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And that's actually been, as a consequence, a much more fruitful collaboration. So I think you can reframe things so it's not looking like it's all bad." Another participant asked DeLoach whether the Navy is planning to have some furnaces in its facility.
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Another participant asked what it means to be a member of an institute. DeLoach answered that member universities pay fees; Ohio State University and the University of Michigan are two of the biggest contributors.
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