The OSD ManTech Program hosted representatives from five Department of Defense Manufacturing Innovation Institutes (MIIs) and their consortium member companies for an Organic Industrial Base Modernization Challenge pitch event in Chicago on February 7, 2023. Following an October workshop to identify crucial technological needs, OSD ManTech initiated the OIB Modernization project call through the MIIs, set to offer up to $2.5 million in OSD-sponsored government funding to five MII-member winners. This resulted in 104 proposal submissions from member companies. Nine projects delivered their proposals to a panel of OIB experts, industry leadership and the OSD ManTech Director at the time, Tracy Frost, based on their projected positive impact across the 47 DoD-owned OIB sites.
three ARM Institute consortium member projects were selected from over 100 proposals submitted to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Organic Industrial Base (OIB) Modernization Challenge, including the one detailed below.
Lead Organization:
GridRaster Inc.
Project Description:
GridRaster will refine and deploy their extended reality tools to enable optimized paint masking work on a large Army vehicle in the operational environment at Letterkenny Army Depot. This effort is anticipated to lower masking errors and reduce masking time, both by more than 50%.