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... Since the end of the Cold War, however, changing circumstances have significantly influenced defense manufacturing. These include: changing threats to national security; declining defense budgets; consolidation of the defense industry; the increasing globalization of industry; the increasing rate of change of technology; and requirements for environmentally compatible manufacturing.
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... ADVANCES IN COMMERCIAL MANUFACTURING The committee identified the following advances in commercial manufacturing as having the greatest potential for benefiting defense manufacturing: industry collaboration, adaptive enterprises, high-performance organizations, life-cycle perspectives, advanced manufacturing processing technology, environmentally compatible manufacturing, and shared information environments. These advances interact with each other and are composed of the following elements: · advanced approaches to manufacturing accounting, including activitybased accounting and cost-as-an-independent-variable accounting advanced approaches to product design, including life-cycle design, integrated product and process development, three-dimensional digital product models, simulation and modeling, and rapid prototyping advanced approaches to manufacturing processes, including generative numerical control, adaptive machine control, predictive process control, high-speed machining, flexible tooling, soft tooling, tool-less assembly, embedded sensors, flip chips, nanotechnology, and biotechnology environmentally compatible manufacturing technologies, including cleaning systems, coatings, and materials selection, storage, and disposal · advanced approaches to business organization, including teaming among organizations, virtual enterprises, long-term supplier relationships, high-performance organizations, cross-functional teams, lean enterprises, adaptive enterprises, agile enterprises, and knowledge-based and learning enterprises information and communications technologies, including electronic commerce, virtual co-location of people, data interchange standards, Internet technologies, intranet technologies, browser technologies, intelligent agents, seamless data environments, telecommunications, and distance learning .
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... Current and future Department of Defense research and development efforts aimed at improving manufacturing capabilities for sustainment of weapons systems should emphasize the following areas: · application of advanced production processes and practices to maintenance, repair, and upgrade operations · technology insertion for new and existing systems · self-diagnostics for mechanical and electronic systems · new technologies for remanufacturing · design methods that improve sustainment Recommendation. The Department of Defense should further encourage defense industry efforts to make the most of the simulation-based design environment and focus on the following activities: .
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... The following development areas should be pursued to facilitate the widespread application of commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) products: new weapons systems designed for open architecture and technology transparency a central program and mechanisms to maintain awareness of, document, and plan for new COTS technologies that can be incorporated into current and future weapons systems, as well as to disseminate this information to individual program offices improved methods of inserting COTS products in fielded weapons systems low-cost validation methods for determining the adequacy of COTS parts for military applications Recommendation.
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... The ManTech program should be considered the primary means of achieving affordability throughout the life cycle of weapons systems. Focal pointfor cross-cutting defense technologies.
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