Cost-effective forging technologies that reduce lead time for military supply chains are to be investigated and developed by SCRA Applied R&D.
The work is being conducted under a multi-year, $8.3 million contract from the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency.
"The Defense Logistics Agency Research and Development Program, supported by Headquarters DLA at Fort Belvoir, Va., continues to demonstrate its commitment to modernizing the forging industry through strategic investments cost-shared by industry," said SCRA Applied R&D Senior Program Manager and FDMC Executive Director Jon Tirpak.
"We look forward to working on this crucial program that helps our men and women in uniform have the best forgings, enabling them to successfully carry out their missions."
The DLA program for the technologies is the Procurement Readiness Optimization -- Forging Advanced Systems, or PRO-FAST. It is designed to improve the quality of forgings critical to the nation's defense and to enable the United States to maintain competitiveness in international markets.
New technologies to be developed include advanced heat treating and quenching technologies, advanced tooling materials and processes, advanced tooling repair technologies, advanced, and lightweight metal matrix alloys.
The technologies will support the structural parts of virtually every U.S. military weapons system, it said.
SCRA's research and development work will be conducted in concert with the Forging Industry Association under the collaborative name FDMC.
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