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But as the participants began developing project ideas, they also found obvious major differences between the commercial market and military vehicles. Figure 2 shows the divergent paths for commercial and military in fuel economy, emissions, and electrical power. The industry drivers are emissions, CAFE, and profit.
The Army drivers, or dominant concerns, are survivability, mobility, lethality, and operational energy. Even the fuel mixes are different, commercial gasoline and diesel versus military jet fuel. Developing mutually beneficial programs required a detailed understanding of the technologies and constant coordination between the subject-matter experts to ensure maximum benefit to both organizations. Some examples are provided below, showing the diversity, depth, and breadth of the projects.
A primary challenge was to accomplish dissimilar metal joining, specifically to join a ferrous material high-strength steel or rolled homogeneous armor to aluminum. The two metals have very different melting points, so traditional welding is difficult. This is even more difficult when thick sections are used, as required for military vehicles. One group from Pacific Northwest developed a successful method known as friction stir dovetailing, which employs a special tool with a spinning head that generates enough friction to heat and form aluminum into a dovetail that fits into a mechanically cut dovetail groove in a piece of steel.
Methods also were developed to measure and predict the relationship of friction to fuel economy. The goal was to improve fuel economy by 2 percent, and the various efforts were successful.
GVSC joined the effort through AVPTA in with the aim of using computer-aided engineering to accelerate the development of Li-ion battery systems for military vehicles while reducing the need for expensive, time-consuming physical testing. Through CAEBAT, numerical design tools were developed to optimize batteries for improved performance, safety, long life, and low cost.
One part of an electric system is the integrated starter-generator ISG , which replaces the starter and alternator in a single electric device. The primary source of rare earths is China, and the supply is subject to disruption.
This project aimed to use different types of magnets or even eliminate permanent magnets. The groups reduced the torque ripple and acoustic noise, common problems in non-rare-earth systems. Research issues can be considered from a different point of view, which can be illuminating and help drive innovation. Developing programs of mutual benefit requires a solid understanding of the operational requirements for each situation and a decision about whether cooperation even makes sense.
Buy-in from high levels is needed to show the importance of the partnership and to secure funding. An organizational structure must be built; official documents such as MOUs and charters need to be developed. After the guidelines are in place to initiate the partnership, internal structures at both agencies must be reorganized to manage the Alliance.
Each of the 20 to 30 projects per year had at least one GVSC person administering or contributing to it. A third charter for five more years is in the planning stages. These results could not have been achieved by either agency on its own. Former Assistant Secretary of the Army Katherine Hammack commented that AVPTA has far exceeded all expectations for technical performance and has become the reference model for interagency collaboration.
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Defense Acquisition Portal. As the primary reference tool for the Defense Acquisition Workforce, it provides a means to link together information and reference assets from various disciplines into an integrated, but decentralized information source. Acquisition Community Connection. Each of the many CoPs, SIAs and workspaces is dedicated to a specific DoD acquisition topic, such as contracting, program management, risk management, space acquisition, etc. ACQuipedia is simular to AcqNotes as it serves as an online encyclopedia of common defense acquisition topics.
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