America Makes Announces ‘DoD Point of Need Manufacturing Challenge’ Project Call

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Concept paper and quad chart are due February 6, 2023

YOUNGSTOWN, OH — America Makes, in cooperation with our fellow Manufacturing Innovation Institutes and OSD ManTech, is offering a project call of up to $1.5M to fund multiple projects under the MII Point of Need (PoN) Challenge from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Individual project budgets are not to exceed $0.5M.

The DoD PoN Manufacturing Challenge Project Call addresses dual-use applications that are responsive to specific needs of the DoD and the domestic manufacturing industry. This project call is focused on a single Special Topic Area (STA) derived from the DoD advanced manufacturing community and contains 7 challenges on PoN manufacturing applications of interest to the DoD.

As additive manufacturing continues to play a role in technological advances within the aerospace and defense industry, America Makes members are encouraged to submit innovative manufacturing solutions that can be deployed close to the warfighter. Solutions must be designed to operate within challenging operational environments as the reach of U.S. forces is global. Technologies will be demonstrated at a location chosen by the DoD within the continental United States that represents one of two operational environments – cold weather (i.e., arctic-type) or hot/humid.

Project teams can propose against one or more of the 7 challenges and must include America Makes as an execution partner. Please note this is a two-step proposal process. Step 1 includes a five-page concept paper and a quad chart and Step 2 is an invitation-only overview of presentations. The deadline for submission of the concept packet is Monday, February 6, 2023.

The 7 challenges include:

Build the Forward Operating Base (FOB) Challenge
Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) Challenge
Warfighter Medical, Health and Nutrition Challenge
Power Challenge
Cyber Challenge
Staying in the Fight Challenge
Other

Each challenge is based on a Class of Supply. Projects shall demonstrate the technology that could address the scenario and be deployed and performed in the required operational environment.

Download the RFP

The project call timeline is as follows:

Launch: January 12, 2023

Eligibility: All participants must be America Makes members

Submission Deadline for Concept Papers: February 6, 2023

Submission Deadline for Presentations/Supporting Docs: February 28, 2023

Team Presentations: March 8-9, 2023

Anticipated Awards Announcement: On or about March 30, 2023

Target Project Start Date: May 15, 2023

Project Completion: Prior to December 15, 2023

America Makes will host a webinar at 11 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday, January 17, to discuss the project call and answer any questions. Registration is not necessary. Join the webinar HERE.

More information, details, and participant guidelines for the DoD PoN Manufacturing Challenge can be found on the America Makes website HERE.

ABOUT AMERICA MAKES

America Makes is the nation’s leading public-private partnership for additive manufacturing technology and education.

America Makes members from industry, academia, government, workforce and economic development organizations, work together to accelerate the adoption of AM and the nation’s global manufacturing competitiveness.

Founded in 2012 as the Department of Defense’s national manufacturing innovation institute for AM and first of the Manufacturing USA network, America Makes is based in Youngstown, Ohio and managed by the not-for-profit National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM).

Visit America Makes: https://www.americamakes.us/

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