Improving quality, reducing costs, and cutting lead times throughout the DLA procurement of spare parts containing castings
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The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) and its supply
centers face numerous challenges in procuring castings for aging but
capable and widely used military systems. Old technical data, broken
supply chains, the inability to know whether a casting is contained
in an NSN, diminishing sources, small quantity procurements, lost
tooling, high costs, and poor quality all affect the ability of the
supply centers to obtain spare parts to ensure the readiness of
fielded weapon systems.
The American Metalcasting Consortium (AMC), integrates the nation’s
top academic metalcasting researchers with the CAST-IT team of
metals experts and the four leading metalcasting industry
associations and their members to solve supply chain management
issues and advance DLA strategies in support of legacy weapon
systems. Key members of the DoD logistics community are integrated
throughout the AMC program to provide insight into DLA’s real world
supply chain challenges. AMC is the only metalcasting consortium
consisting of the dominant industry associations, their membership,
and the premier metalcasting research universities in the United
States.
The Castings for Improved Readiness Program is sponsored by the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA and the Defense Logistics Agency, Ft. Belvoir, VA. AMC’s Castings for Improved Defense Readiness program is sponsored the Armaments Research and Development Engineering Center, Picatinny, NJ and Benet Laboratories, Watervliet, NY.
Developing innovative technologies and new processes
to support the
Defense Logistics Agency in obtaining hard-to-procure
cast parts.
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