Colonel Howard Marotto

Additive Manufacturing Business Director/ Deputy Commander, 4th Marine Logistics Group EWI / USMC

Agenda Day 1

3:00 PM NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK IN THE EXHIBITION HALL

4:00 PM MANUFACTURING DRONES ON LOCATION

  • Understanding the differences in manufacturing drones 
  • The process of mobilizing manufacturing 
  • How the acceleration of drone use in warfare is affecting drone manufacturing 


Agenda Day 2

8:00 AM REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING IN THE EXHIBITION HALL

8:55 AM Chairman’s Opening Remarks

9:00 AM SCALABLE COMPOSITES ROBOTIC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING (SCRAM) FABRICATED CONTINUOUS FIBER COMPOSITE STRUCTURES

 

  • 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 MANUFACTURING FOR THE US NAVY – ON AND OFF BOARD

  • 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 


10:00 AM Morning Coffee and Networking in the Exhibition Hall

10:45 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 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 LUNCH AND NETWORKING IN THE EXHIBITION HALL

1:00 PM ADVANCING US ADDITIVE CONSTRUCTION

  • Overview on the realities of additive construction 
  • Differences in expeditionary printing and construction printing 
  • Next stages of additive construction 


1:30 PM INNOVATING MATERIAL SOLUTIONS

  • Overview of the additive manufacturing research done at University of Southern California 
  • Research institutions partnerships with industry 
  • Current material innovation efforts 

2:00 PM NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK IN THE EXHIBITION HALL

2:30 PM GROWING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING FOR AIRBREATHING HYPERSONICS

 

  • Consolidating manufacturing practices 
  • Initial challenges producing for the program 
  • Meeting environmental requirements 

3:00 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 


3:30 PM Chairman’s Closing Remarks

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