Colonel Howard Marotto

Colonel Howard Marotto

Additive Manufacturing Business Director/ Deputy Commander, 4th Marine Logistics Group EWI / USMC
Colonel Howard Marotto

Agenda Day 1

2:45 PM NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK IN THE EXHIBITION HALL

3:45 PM MANUFACTURING DRONES ON LOCATION

  • Understanding the differences in manufacturing drones 
  • The process of mobilizing manufacturing 
  • How the acceleration of drone use in warfare is affecting drone manufacturing 

4:15 PM ADAPTING COMMERCIAL MANUFACTURING CAPABILITIES FOR DEFENSE PRODUCTION

  • Understanding the differences in applying advanced manufacturing from commercial to defense production 
  • Lessons learned from making the transition to defense manufacturing with advanced manufacturing technology 
  • Scaling advanced manufacturing for defense 

Agenda Day 2

8:00 AM REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING IN THE EXHIBITION HALL

8:55 AM Chairman’s Opening Remarks

9:30 AM OSD-MANTECH 101

  • How OSD-ManTech partners with organizations across the DoD 
  • Challenges OSD-ManTech is currently facing in implementing advanced manufacturing 
  • Understanding how industry can work with DoD ManTech to improve its advanced manufacturing capabilities 


10:30 AM Morning Coffee and Networking in the Exhibition Hall

11:00 AM ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING FOR EVERY “SEA” STATE

 

  • Understanding the need for joint AM qualifications for interoperability supporting the US Navy  
  • Additive manufacturing for current and future platforms  
  • The constraints and challenges that the US Navy faces with additive manufacturing 


11:30 AM SCALABLE COMPOSITES ROBOTIC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING (SCRAM) FABRICATED CONTINUOUS FIBER COMPOSITE STRUCTURES

 

  • Fully automated factory in a cell 
  • Toolless, or hard tooled, manufacturing for rapid prototyping and high-rate production 
  • Preform fabrication for C/C composites 

12:00 PM DEVELOPING ADVANCED DIGITAL MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY FOR THE US AIR FORCE

  • Updates on the work of the Manufacturing, Industrial Technologies and Energy Division’s Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems, or CAMS, Laboratory 
  • Enabling rapid refitting of systems in the field for quick turnarounds 
  • How the US Air Force is partnering with industry to further digital manufacturing 

12:30 PM LUNCH AND NETWORKING IN THE EXHIBITION HALL

1:30 PM INNOVATING MATERIAL SOLUTIONS

  • Overview of the additive manufacturing research done at University of Southern California 
  • Research institutions partnerships with industry 
  • Current material innovation efforts 

2:00 PM ADVANCED MANUFACTURING FOR THE MARINE CORPS

  • Are warfighters even utilizing advanced manufacturing during operational exercises? 
  • How will these capabilities increase readiness and lethality in INDOPACOM? 
  • What capability gaps still need to be fulfilled? 


2:30 PM NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK IN THE EXHIBITION HALL

3:00 PM TRANSITION FROM DEVELOPMENT TO PRODUCTION FOR METAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

  • Scaling metal additive manufacturing  
  • Challenges to scaling to production for metal additive manufacturing 
  • Understanding the needs of the DoD in regards to metal additive manufacturing 


3:30 PM THE VITAL ROLE THAT INSTITUTES ARE PLAYING IN BUILDING AMERICA’S ADVANCED MANUFACTURING SECTOR

  • How institutes such as ARMS Institute, LIFT and MxD are partnering with DOD Mantech to push advanced manufacturing innovation in the DOD 
  • Ways institutes are partnering with industry to improve advanced manufacturing supply chains for the Department of Defense 
  • How institutes are helping the Department of Defense implement advanced manufacturing faster 

4:00 PM Chairman’s Closing Remarks

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