DoD Engagement with Its Manufacturing Innovation Institutes Phase 2 Study Final Report (2021) / Chapter Skim
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are focused on specific technology areas that have been identified as critical for the future of DoD and for which manufacturing technology maturation is an important need for technology implementation. The DoD MIIs are as follows: • America Makes (National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute)
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In 2019, the director of OSD ManTech asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to perform a study on how DoD should engage with DoD's MIIs in the future. The National Academies' study made a series of recommendations and suggestions for further study.1 In 2020, OSD ManTech asked the National Academies to perform a second fast-track study to provide strategic guidance on the following three important suggestions from the first study: • Protocols for conducting long-term engagement assessments of the MIIs, including evaluation criteria (Task 1)
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The committee's approach to Task 1 was to first examine best practices and lessons learned from major program review processes from other federal agencies and identify approaches relevant to the DoD MII evaluation process. Next, the committee examined the MII evaluation framework developed by OSD ManTech and identified topics that should be considered for expanding the scope of the evaluation framework questions to better reflect the MII evaluation process.
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Manufacturing technology has long been recognized as essential to support advanced technology implementation in the department.4 To better support the need for timely, effective manufacturing technology development and transition, DoD established nine Manufacturing Innovation Institutes through its Defense-wide Manufacturing Science and Technology (DMS&T) program element within the ManTech program.
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advanced manufacturing infrastructure and that there is a need for broad coordination, collaboration, and dissemination of MII activities within this infrastructure. DoD recently published the Department of Defense Manufacturing Technology Office Manufacturing Innovation Institutes Strategic Communications and Outreach Plan,6 which identifies a broad set of key strategic stakeholders and plans for en gagement with these stakeholders on the work being performed in the DoD MIIs.
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• Goal 5: Effectively support a capable workforce.14 In addition to helping DoD to meet its needs for the advanced manufacturing technologies that its missions require, DoD OSD ManTech officials recognize that the institutes operate within larger production ecosystems of which DoD work is 12 Congressional Research Service, 2020, DOD RDT&E Appropriations Structure, October 8, https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R44711.pdf. 13 DoD, 2018, "DoD Directive 5200.14: Manufacturing Technology (ManTech)
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Also, the DoD MII program benefits from the Manufacturing USA activities. Relevant to the MII assessment task of this study, Manufacturing USA has recently published a document on institute evaluations that provides useful insights which can inform DoD's 5-year assessment process.16 The OSD ManTech office provides oversight of the DoD institutes and has performed annual reviews of all of the MIIs since the inception of the institutes.
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