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NAVY MANTECH FY25 INVESTMENT STRATEGY

DoD ManTech investments deliver manufacturing solutions at the speed of relevance. Measures of effectiveness include quantifiable cost benefits, industrial base productivity enhancements, increased competition through addition of qualified suppliers, increased system performance, and improved quality and sustainment of defense systems. They assure program fiscal, technical, and project accountability.

Investment Strategy Updates:

Navy ManTech will execute an investment strategy in FY 2023-2027 based on the direction of the Office of Naval Research leadership and determined by total acquisition funding; stage in acquisition cycle; platform cost-reduction goals; cost-reduction potential for manufacturing; and other factors primarily associated with the ability of Navy ManTech.

  • Highlighting PEO IWS efforts for ship platforms currently supported by Navy ManTech
  • Highlighting sustainment across all platforms
  • Added Future (Major) Acquisition Platform Support to Capability Acceleration thrust areas

Capability Acceleration

The Navy ManTech Program is an industrial preparedness program focused on affordability improvements for key naval platforms as well as capability acceleration to get capabilities to the Fleet faster.

Areas of Focus:

  • Sustainment Technology
  • Energetics Production Support
  • Advanced Submarine Technology Fabrication
  • Future Acquisition Platform Support
  • Unmanned / Autonomous Vehicle Production
  • Directed Energy
  • Hypersonics Fabrication
  • Other ONR Manufacturing Maturation

DOD Mantech Research

The DoD Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Program furthers national security objectives through the development and application of advanced manufacturing technologies and processes.

Department of Defense
Manufacturing Technology Program Strategic Plan

Section 4841 of Title 10, USC, provides that the DoD ManTech Program will further national security objectives through the development and application of advanced manufacturing technologies and processes that:
  • Reduce the acquisition and supportability costs of defense weapon systems
  • Reduce manufacturing and repair cycle times across the life cycles of such systems
The DoD ManTech Program serves as an important mechanism for technology transition by:
  • identifying, developing, and maturing new or improved manufacturing and repair processes
  • providing affordable technologies to acquisition program managers
  • bridging the gap between discovery and implementation of new capabilities for the warfighter

National Science Foundation Advanced Manufacturing (AM)

The Advanced Manufacturing (AM) program supports the fundamental research needed to revitalize American manufacturing to grow the national prosperity and workforce, and to reshape our strategic industries.  The AM program accelerates advances in manufacturing technologies with emphasis on multidisciplinary research that fundamentally alters and transforms manufacturing capabilities, methods and practices. Advanced manufacturing research proposals should address issues related to national prosperity and security, and advancing knowledge to sustain global leadership.

Areas of research, for example, include manufacturing systems; materials processing; manufacturing machines; methodologies; and manufacturing across the length scales. Researchers working in the areas of cybermanufacturing systems, manufacturing machines and equipment, materials engineering and processing, and nanomanufacturing are encouraged to transcend and cross domain boundaries. Interdisciplinary, convergent proposals are welcome that bring manufacturing to new application areas, and that incorporate challenges and approaches outside the customary manufacturing portfolio to broaden the impact of America’s advanced manufacturing research.