National Armaments Consortium (NAC) facilitates teaming by offering portfolio of collaboration opportunities
The National Armaments Consortium (NAC), which ATI has managed since 2009, engages its membership and facilitates teaming by offering a diverse portfolio of collaboration opportunities.
Robust recruitment strategy expands membership of National Spectrum Consortium
ATI used a robust recruitment strategy to strategically expand the membership of the National Spectrum Consortium.
American Metalcasting Consortium assists Defense Logistics Agency in development of Integrated Casting Ordering Network
Using the Integrated Casting Ordering Network (ICON) web portal, the Defense Logistics Agency saved $275k on a recent purchase of critical airplane parts.
OTA benefit: Open communication between government, industry
The Other Transaction (OT) model enables open communication between government and industry.
Industry, government project teams increase efficiency & reliability of ships, saving Navy millions
The ATI-managed Naval Shipbuilding and Advanced Manufacturing Center (NSAM) used collaboration to address Navy challenges.
OTA benefit: Efficiency of OT consortium model results in speed
The efficiency of the Other Transaction (OT)-consortium model makes OTAs extremely fast compared to typical government-funded prototyping projects.
Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium uses first-of-its-kind funding mechanism
The Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) uses a first-of-its-kind funding mechanism that enables both the government and private sponsors to support groundbreaking medical research.
Space Enterprise Consortium established quickly to meet Air Force needs
ATI established the Space Enterprise Consortium by leveraging our expansive infrastructure for collaboration management.
OTA benefit: Consortia democratize government contracting for small businesses, non-traditional contractors
Through OTA consortia, small businesses and academic institutions can bring innovative technologies to the DoD to advance critical defense capabilities.
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NuCressTM bone scaffolding solution for healing bone trauma on the battlefield and beyond
These efforts have been successful, and Dr. Biris’ university spinout venture NuShores received a fourth award in FY20 by the U.S. Army’s Medical Research and Development Command’s Clinical and Rehabilitative Research Program (CRMRP) via an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) competitively awarded through the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC). This transition of the initial NuCressTM manufacturing process from the JWMRP to the MTEC focuses on the optimization of the manufacturing process by investigating multiple and consecutive iterations of automation to improve quality, cost and efficiency. The deliverable is to demonstrate the feasibility of producing the NuCressTM bone void filler scaffold by a fully automated, intelligent production system with real-time in-process quality monitoring and control.
A non profit prize challenge seeks technology for Homeland Security
The Homeland Security Technology Consortium, which was formerly known as the Border Security Technology Consortium, it’s about 138 member companies, academics and nonprofits are involved in it. It was established back in 2015 to accelerate innovative pilots and prototypes at DHS to answer mission needs of operators using other transaction authorities.
DoD and National Spectrum Consortium team for Open RAN acceleration
The National Spectrum Consortium, with support from the Department of Defense (DoD), recently announced the release of a “Call for Whitepapers” to their membership requesting feedback and ideas from industry and academia that could help accelerate the development, manufacturing, and testing of 5G Open Radio Access Network ("Open RAN") technologies in the United States. The central goal of this outreach is to help identify obstacles to emerging or existing companies in accelerating the commercialization of Open RAN in the U.S.