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I'm the research and development 

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director in Mahon Tech is the largest 

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of the three components of our R . And 

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D . Program . It involves basically 

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sustainment of key supply chains . It's 

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all about the defense industrial base 

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and really keeping it ready for D . L . 

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A sustainment . We're at Redstone Test 

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center located on Redstone arsenal 

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Alabama and we do testing for army 

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hardware . So this is a project that 

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we've been working with the army and as 

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part of our additive manufacturing 

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portfolio for D . L . A . It's really 

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about getting added manufactured parts 

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into the aviation supply chain . The 

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name of the project that we're 

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highlighting is the additive 

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manufacturing you ate 60 fuel elbow 

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project and because of supply 

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shortages that had to do with 

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manufacturing quality escapes the 

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program office and D . L . A . And the 

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armies F . Com . Aviation missile 

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center Man tech got together to 

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design build and test an additive lee 

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manufactured fuel elbow . The goal of 

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the project was to do a 10 hour test 

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flight on a U . H . 60 helicopter here 

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at our airfield . Better than 

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manufacturing is the ability to take a 

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cad model and computer aided design 

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model and put it into layers into a 

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machine So the machine deposits layers 

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of materials . This is actually a fuel 

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elbow . What this does is this end 

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connects to the fuel hose and then this 

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end connects to the engine . So this 

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actually supplies fuel to the turbine 

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engines so the fuel elbow had a 

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manufacturing quality issue had a thin 

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wall on one side of the fuel elbow that 

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was causing small fuel leaks Importance 

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of this project is demonstrating that 

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we can print these parts and qualify 

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these parts to a certain airworthiness 

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qualification and fly these parts in a 

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living test flight which is really just 

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exercising that whole process so that 

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in the future as technology improves 

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and advances we can move forward and 

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continue to add parts to the aircraft 

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as needed to help sustainment . We 

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definitely consider the project a 

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success . The fact that it was a joint 

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project was very beneficial . The fact 

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that we were able to pull resources 

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different organizations and we had a 

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stated goal and we met it at the end it 

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is important that the L . A . 

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Establishes these partnerships not only 

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with the military but also with the 

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academia in industry because when you 

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bring different perspectives to a 

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problem you find better solutions to 

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its success can be defined in a number 

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of ways , a lot of ways it's making a 

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better part getting it qualified so it 

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can be part of the new part that you'd 

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order for that weapon systems . Other 

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times it's improving a business process 

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for D . L . A . Like moving us from A 

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to D technical data world to a three D . 

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Connected digital enterprise . So 

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success can take different approaches 

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but for us it's really all about 

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support to the war fighter