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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