DISTRIBUTION F: Further dissemination only as directed by ODASD(MIBP) Manufacturing Technology Office (8 August 2017) or higher DoD authority.

RFT Manufacturing Innovation Institute:A New Industry/Government Partnership to Meet Future

Defense and Commercial Needs

Update for IFAI Expo26 September 2017

Mr. Stephen LuckowskiUS Army ARDEC, AFFOA Government Program Manager

Stephen.l.Luckowski.civ@mail.mil, 973-724-3373

Mr. Abhai KumarANSER/OSD, Principal Analyst

Abhai.kumar@anser.com, 703-416-3320

Background

• Manufacturing is a matter of national security – as a driver of the US economy and as a source of critical technology for the military

• Government’s overarching objective: Unleash new US advanced manufacturing capabilities and industries for stronger global competitiveness and US economic and national security

• Manufacturing innovation institutes enable the Government to leverage the effectiveness of regional and national public-private partnerships to spur domestic manufacturing innovation and competitiveness in key technology areas

• There are 14 manufacturing innovation institutes within the Manufacturing USA network: Departments of Defense (8), Energy (5) and Commerce (1)

• Federal investment of $75-110M each (DoD institutes) over 5 years

• Each institute serves as a regional hub of manufacturing excellence to:• Bring together industry, academia and federal, state agencies• Accelerate manufacturing innovation; bridge gap between basic research and product development

(applied R&D)• Invest in manufacturing technologies important to both industry and Government• Educate and train students and workers in advanced manufacturing skills• Build lasting manufacturing capabilities and ecosystem.

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Institute

Applied Research & Demo Projects - Reducing cost/risk on commercializing new technologies, Solving pre-competitive industrial problems

Tech Integration - Development of innovative methodologies and practices for supply chain integration Small/Medium Enterprises -

Engagement with small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs)

Key Institute Activities

Role of Government in this Public/Private Partnership

• OSD Leadership and Support: Tracy Frost, Director DoD Manufacturing USA institutes

• Institute Leadership: Army-led government team Government Program Manager: Steve Luckowski, US Army Armaments Research Development and Engineering Center

Contracting: Travis Clemons, Lauren McDermott, Army Contracting Command-NJ

• Team of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from across the government whose role is identifying market potential, project planning and advisory role during project execution

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Government Interest in Smart Fabrics

• In 2014, the Government surveyed industry on six technology areas to determine the prospect of a Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII)

Based on positive feedback from industry and academia, Revolutionary Fibers and Textiles was chosen to move forward

• In April, 2016, the contract was awarded to Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA) and announced to the public

— AFFOA is a non-profit company spun out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) based in Cambridge, MA

• The Government, particularly the Department of Defense (DoD), sees the value in smart fabrics in helping to reduce weight and enhance capability

— Advanced fabrics can transform soldier survivability, situational awareness, and protection and mobility by incorporating chemical/biological detection, friend/foe identification, energy harvesting, and health monitoring

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• Personnel Parachuting and Cargo Airdrop Systems – Ex. Sensors for detecting strain/wear

• Integrated Soldier Power and Data System • Softwall/Rigidwall Shelters and Base Camp Systems• Undersea optical communications network• Uniform and Vehicle Identification of Friend/Foe (IFF-passive/active)• Soldier Uniforms – Thermal management, Chemical/Biological/

Radiological/Nuclear protection, etc.• Reinforced Structures – Ex. Mechanically stabilized earth walls

Government Example Applications

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AFFOA At-A-Glance

The Fabric Revolution: From Fiber Devices to Fabric Systems

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AFFOA Leadership: Industry, Academia, and Government

All Stakeholders Council (ASC)

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Govt PM

Phil Singerman

Assoc Director, NIST

Tracy FrostDirector, DoD

MfgUSA Institutes

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COOTairan Wang

CEOYoel Fink

CMOEric Spackey

Director, EWD.Noah Drori

Defense Technology LeadSasha Stolyarov (LL)

Director, Admin. & MembershipTina Gilman

General CounselTena Zara

Senior Product Engineer Mihai Ibanescu

Senior Admin. Asst.Lorena Fiori

CPOTosha Hays

Senior Product Engineer Jason Cox

CTOAimee Rose

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Senior Process Engineer Chia-Chun Chung

AFFOA Team: Institute HQ

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AFFOA Membership

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Technical and Product Strategy

Technical Strategy

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Technology Roadmap – in progress

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Technical Execution: First Project Call

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Project Call 1 Timeline:November, 2016 – Request for white papers releasedApril, 2017 – Final proposals receivedJune, 2017 – Final projects down-selectedSeptember, 2017 – First project awardedNovember, 2017 – Second project call

Technical Execution

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Product Strategy

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• The product strategy is to create a national network of “advanced fabric” startup incubators and connect them with market-facing companies to enable exciting product ideas to emerge across the country

— This enables the institute to fulfill its goal of delivering “fabrics as a service”

• AFFOA is developing a product plan and roadmap with quarterly core demonstration projects

• Several product prototypes have already been developed:— LOOKS Product Platform:

Programmable backpack is the first product prototypeUses woven functional fabric and LOOKS software

— LiFi Product Platform: Uses lights to transmit data to fabrics which receive the informationAFFOA created the first fiber to enable weaving LiFi technology into shirts, hats or other textiles for indoor navigation, perspective-based content delivery, etc.

LOOKS backpack

LiFi-enabled hat

Education and Workforce Development Process

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Fabric Discovery Centers (FDCs)

End-to-End Prototyping Facilities

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Each FDC has its own distinct capability:Massachusetts: • Headquarters (electronic fibers)• Defense (unclassified and classified work)• Joint use (AFFOA, NextFlex)PennsylvaniaNorth CarolinaGeorgia 21

AFFOA Start-up Incubator Strategy

FDC Facility Layout

• The FDCs’ provide startup incubation space and other support to accelerate the formation of advanced functional fabric start-up companies

• The network of FDCs is expected to promote product innovation for the textile industry and thus, transition institute-developed technologies into commercial products

Defense Fabric Discovery Center (FDC)

Based at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (LL), the Defense FDC leverages a joint team, core competencies and existing facilities at LL, Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) and AFFOA

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“Blue Teaming” Approach to Defense FDC Roadmap Projects

Army Stakeholders:

• Combat Vehicle Protection

• Aviation Protection and Mobility

• Soldier survivability / protection

• Soldier load reduction

• Soldier situational awareness improvement

Navy Stakeholders:

• Low cost undersea acoustic sensor arrays

• Undersea optical comms

• Fiber antenna concept

Intelligence Community/Other Stakeholders:

• Secure communication

• Other

Understand Key Capability Gaps1 Develop System ConceptsLeveraging Advanced Fibers

2 Innovate on Enabling Fiber Technology

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• Develop Technology

• Prototype System Concept

Viable?

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Perform System analysis

Identification and communications fabrics

Photonic fibers

Projects driven by system concepts enabled by advanced functional fiber technology

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Viable?

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DASD, Emerging Capabilities & Prototyping

• Other GAs covering broad set of DoD problem space

Raise awareness to new capabilities

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Joint team of Lincoln Laboratory, NSRDEC and AFFOA provides near-term capability and long-term mechanism for stakeholder inputProvide immediate capability to perform work on classified DoD products

– Reduce time and program risk compared to obtaining facility clearance for non-Federal facilities

– Establish more refined boundaries in classification guide to help facilitate commercial manufacturing, while protecting critical data

Transition and share unclassified manufacturing processes to other FDC’s and industry partners through a central data repositoryProvides $6.25M of equipment capability as cost share to the Federal commitment of $3M to the FDC (2:1 cost share)Provides linkage of other Lincoln Laboratory Federal customers to fiber and textile technologies

Defense FDC Benefits to DoD

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In Summary

• AFFOA is a national manufacturing institute, within the Manufacturing USA network, that’s been set up as a public-private partnership with national reach in order to spur domestic manufacturing and innovation

• The institute is leading the fabric revolution by creating a range of technologies from fiber devices to fabric systems

• AFFOA provides access to new technology, a rapid prototyping network, and start-up assistance via the Fabric Discovery Centers

• Provide shared assets and knowledge to help companies access cutting-edge capabilities and equipment

• Provides the opportunity to participate in future technology project calls for research

• The institute is 18 months into the 5-year period of Federal investment

• AFFOA is set up to enable opportunities beyond the traditional government contract thereby being well positioned to meet current and future defense and commercial needs

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