The Premier Advanced Manufacturing Event for Defense
June 24 - 25, 2025
| Hilton Los Angeles Culver City
Agenda Day 2
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8:00 am - 8:50 am
REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING IN THE EXHIBITION HALL
8:55 am - 9:00 am
Chairman’s Opening Remarks
9:00 am - 9:30 am
SCALABLE COMPOSITES ROBOTIC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING (SCRAM) FABRICATED CONTINUOUS FIBER COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
David Ivankovich -
Staff Engineer, Advanced Manufacturing Technology R&D,
Northrop Grumman
- Fully automated factory in a cell
- Toolless, or hard tooled, manufacturing for rapid prototyping and high-rate production
- Preform fabrication for C/C composites
9:30 am - 10:00 am
MANUFACTURING FOR THE US NAVY – ON AND OFF BOARD
Dr. Cindy Waters -
Senior Science & Technology Manager for Advanced Manufacturing and Materials,
US Navy
- Understanding the qualifications for additive manufacturing for the US Navy
- Additive manufacturing for current and future platforms
- The constraints and challenges that the US Navy faces with additive manufacturing
Dr. Cindy Waters
Senior Science & Technology Manager for Advanced Manufacturing and MaterialsUS Navy
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Morning Coffee and Networking in the Exhibition Hall
10:45 am - 11:15 am
DEVELOPING ADVANCED DIGITAL MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY FOR THE US AIR FORCE
- Updates on the work of the Manufacturing, Industrial Technologies and Energy Division’s Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems, or CAMS, Laboratory
- Enabling rapid refitting of systems in the field for quick turnarounds
- How the US Air Force is partnering with industry to further digital manufacturing
11:15 am - 12:00 pm
IMPROVING THE DIGITAL THREAD IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
- The importance of the digital thread for advancing emerging technologies
- Shortening the time spent on reformatting data to focus on work
- How digital threads lead to easier scaling
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
LUNCH AND NETWORKING IN THE EXHIBITION HALL
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
ADVANCING THE US AIR FORCE’S ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING CAPABILITIES AND PARTNERSHIPS
- Current initiatives the US Air Force has for additive manufacturing and challenges it is facing
- Creating metaling additive manufacturing capabilities for the US Air Force
- Strengthening the US Air Force’s additive manufacturing industry relationships
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
INNOVATING MATERIAL SOLUTIONS
Andreas Andersson -
Portfolio Director Cases, Material Solutions,
GKN Aerospace
- Overview of the additive manufacturing research done at University of Southern California
- Research institutions partnerships with industry
- Current material innovation efforts
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK IN THE EXHIBITION HALL
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
GROWING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING FOR AIRBREATHING HYPERSONICS
- Consolidating manufacturing practices
- Initial challenges producing for the program
- Meeting environmental requirements
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
THE VITAL ROLE THAT INSTITUES ARE PLAYING IN BUILDING AMERICA’S ADVANCED MANUFACTURING SECTOR
- How institutes such as ARMS Institute, LIFT and MxD are partnering with DOD Mantech to push advanced manufacturing innovation in the DOD
- Ways institutes are partnering with industry to improve advanced manufacturing supply chains for the Department of Defense
- How institutes are helping the Department of Defense implement advanced manufacturing faster
