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Air Force Materiel Command
AFA Technology
Symposium
Maj Gen Andrew Busch
OO-ALC/CC
3 Sept 2009
Integrity  Service  Excellence
Overview
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OO-ALC core competencies
Technology and the ALC
Funded Projects
Summary
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OO-ALC Core Competencies
Depot
Maintenance
ICBM, F-16, A-10, F-22, C-130,
Landing Gear, Power Systems, Software,
Composites, Hydraulics/Pneudraulics
Weapon System
Management
F-16, A-10, T-38, Space & C3I
Munitions, Simulators and Trainers
Supply Chain
Management
Readiness
Munitions, Space & C3I
Provide Combat-Ready
Airmen
Technology and the ALC
• Tech development is one of our skills, but not
a core competency
• Technology need areas
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Balance investment costs and production pressures
Environmental stewardship
NDI technologies
Plating & coatings technologies
Composite materials and repair technologies
Corrosion resistance technologies
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FY10 SBIR Funded Projects
• NDI methods for HVOF coated components
• Rapid assembly of durable composite radome
panels and radome mounting interface
• Rapid assembly, energy efficient composite
shelter
• Improved landing gear grinding / finishing
methods on hardened wear resistant surfaces
Summary
• Keep the focus; maintain the momentum
• Small businesses are having success
• Technology investment must continue
Questions?
Technology Transfer Vehicles
Manufacturing Technology
(MANTECH)
AFRL Projects
Depot Technology Modernization
Program (DTMP)
Reduction in Total Ownership
Cost (RTOC)
Applied Technology
Demonstrations (ATD)
Commercial Technologies for
Maintenance Activities (CTMA)
TECHNOLOGY
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Cooperative Research and
Development Agreements (CRADA)
Foreign Comparative Testing (FCT)
Program
Defense Acquisition Challenge
Program (DACP)
Scientific Advisory Board
(SAB)
Technology Transition Initiative
(TTI)
Small Business Innovative
Research (SBIR)
Educational Partnership
Agreements (EPA)
Quick Reaction Funds (QRF)
Center has used
Technology Transfer Vehicles
• Notes on Tech Transfer Vehicles
Replacement of Cd plating
Corrosion Testing
Current Cd Process
500 hrs
1000 hrs
2000 hrs
Zn Ni Process
Rotating ID Gun Capability
Product Development Schedule
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•HVOF ID Gun
•HVOF & Plasma ID Gun
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Benefit to Warfighter
Product
Next generation HVOF rotating torch to coat
internal diameters
Technology Challenges
Replace a “wet” application applied to the ID
of parts with a “dry” and environmentally
friendly sprayed application
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Eliminates chrome emissions
Improves part longevity
Saves energy (eLog21)
Supports Lean transformation
Keeps depot work organic
Increases through-put
Notes for ID Gun
• F-15 MLG inner cylinder
• B-1 MLG outer cylinder
• Both are overhauled very frequently in our
shop and we have to chrome plate internal
surfaces on both. The AF currently has only
one option to coat these areas and that is with
chrome plating. The ID HVOF gun will give the
AF the option to deposit other materials that
are environmentally friendly and more
importantly, they outperform chrome.
• ID Gun is applicable for many parts, F-15 & B-1
are just examples of high volume work.
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Laser De-Coating System
OO-ALC Gun Tube Bore
Before: 30 mm Gun Tube Bores
Plated With Chrome
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Short Gun Tube Life Expectancy
Due to Plating Wear-Out
Plating Process Creates Waste
Stream (Chrome Dissolved In Liquid
Medium)
After: New 30 mm Gun Tube Bore
Plating Material and Process
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Initial Firing Tests Show Enhanced
Wear Properties
New Process Reduces Waste Stream
Due to Initial Results, Army, Navy
and OEM Now Participating
Parts Manufacturer Approval (PMA)
• A combined design and production approval for
modification and replacement parts. It allows a
manufacturer to produce and sell these parts for
installation on type certificated products. The F-16
program approves materials, processes, appliances
and other parts by other means like a Technical
Standards Order (TSO) or in conjunction with a type
certificate. Order 8110.42 prescribes the approval
procedures for FAA personnel and guides applicants
in the approval process. The design approval phase of
PMA certifies that a replacement or modification part
complies with the airworthiness standards of eligible
products (aircraft, engine or propeller).
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