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Collaborative Commercialisation. Defence+Industry Conference 2014 Mark Hodge - CEO. DMTC Operational Context. Vision: To p rovide technology solutions enabling industry to enhance Australian Defence capability. Mission: - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Capability through collaboration
July 30, 2014
Collaborative Commercialisation
Defence+Industry Conference 2014
Mark Hodge - CEO
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DMTC Operational Context
Mission:DMTC leads, facilitates and manages cooperative research in the defence sector in materials, manufacturing & related themes, with the Defence customer, industry and research sector as key stakeholders.
Strategic Intent:
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Corporate Structure:Public Company. Not for Profit. Limited by Guarantee
Resources under management~$87M (incl. $30M DMO – Ind Div) over 7 years from July 2008 “Core”
~$23M (incl. $7.5M Land 125) over 5 years from Jan 2011 “Program 7”
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Vision: To provide technology solutions enabling industry to enhance Australian Defence capability.
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Full Participants
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Supporting Participants
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Additional Client Organisations
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The Numbers
5 Programs across AIR, LAND and SEA Domains containing
34 Active Projects delivering new technologies and manufacturing processes
680 people directly involved in DMTC activities from 32 Participant organisations
$110 Million total resources on improving capabilityincludes $38M Defence - balance from Industry & Research sectors
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Defence R&D perspective
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Listen mate – I define the
requirements
Has to be small, lightweight &
99.99% reliable
• Driven by threat environment• Soldier-proof• Operational-requirement• Time critical (deployment)• Fieldable, modular, flexible
USERCan’t field it without ACIB endorsement
We need to risk mitigate –COTS,
MOTSThe next DCP funding window is 7 years away
I need to see the requirements
definition case
Best value = cheapest acquisition. Sustainment
challenges come later
Program Mgr
• Capability driver• Systems approach• Budget constrained• Acquisition strategy• Risk aware
S&T
I’ve been doing this for years – I don’t need
program management
Customer’s role is to integrate, commercialize
– I’ve moved on
If you push long enough, they’ll come around
You don’t get it- this project is unique – I
need more time, money
• Goal is maximum utility of tech.• Risk is inherent• Best case: cost, schedule estimate
Has to be best of breed.
Have to have it now.
My product can do everything
you need
I need security of contract to innovate
I need flexibility to work out the kinks
in my product
• Profit motive: no profit = no product
• Contract tenure/certainty• Needs S&T “as advertised”
INDUSTRY
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Elements of a DMTC Program
Other Elements:
Balance between financial, capability and national security impacts
Appropriate balance between “R” and “D”
Natural progression of expertise from materials, manufacturing and related themes.
Appropriate balance in contributions: Cash & in-kind Defence & non-Defence
funds
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New Program
Defence priorities & timings
Industry capability & capacity
Research credibility, experience & expertise
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Land Domain AchievementsIndustry/commercial impact of DMTC research is confirmed• Strong enthusiasm from Industry - proactive engagement
Integrated Power Generation and Storage• Fuel cell prototype demonstrated as having charging
capacity to reduce battery weight burden on a 72 hour
patrol by 75%
Soft Armour Fabric Design and production capability• Light weight neck and shoulder protection with snap on/off design developed
to augment tiered body armour system
Hard Armour technology now in procurement• DMTC B4C technology now integrated into body armour
• Cheaper, local manufacturing and design capability
• Next evolution of technology to support even better capability
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Cross Program Benefits
Bushmaster
Automated and rapid off-line programming for robot-on-robot production welding cell resulting in up to 70% savings in the time it takes to reconfigure automated assembly activities of armoured platforms.
Air Warfare Destroyer
Investment in new panel line utilising new DMTC technologies, resulting in:
- Increase in deposition rates- Reduction or elimination of plate
distortion- 10,000 hours of rework eliminates
per module
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Program maturity
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Curved B4C armour
Monolithic lightweight armour shells
D4 pilot processing
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Program maturity cont…
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Lightweight power
Titanium machining – how to guide
AOLP & automated welding suite
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IP ManagementRobust Model – geared towards rapid utilisation of technology
Participants: Automatic, royalty-free & non-exclusive rights to project IP
Industry Participants• Generally not funded in projects• Benefit derived through greater competitiveness, supply-chain integration,
ability to commercially exploit IP
Research Participants• Receive bulk of funding for projects
• Are not permitted to commercially exploit IP
Restrictive Covenants:IP use is Field Limited & restricted to local entity only on royalty-free terms
Project Based
Minimum contribution required to trigger access13
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Materials Producers
and Suppliers
Enabling Technologies
Component Manufacturers
Manufacturing Technology
Systems Integration
F-35 Joint Strike
Fighter
Supply Chain Collaboration Model
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11 Industry Participants
2 Research Organisations and 5 Universities:
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Program linkage
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DMTC Project TRL Map
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Bulk of DMTC projects operate through mid-level TRL’s (TRL 3-4 up to around TRL 7-8) in the so-called “Valley of Death”
DMTC also conducts projects that feed directly into platforms and production linese.g. automated welding (Bushmaster)
DMTC conducts some fundamental research activities where required in order to support applied outcomes e.g. new material characteristics
“R” “D”Balanced Programs
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SRL-TRL ProgressionS
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Technology Readiness LevelImmature
Imm
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Mature
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Valley of death
Relevance, user a
cceptance,
Competitive edge, n
ational in
dustrial capability
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SRL-TRL Progression
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Sys
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Rea
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Lev
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Technology Readiness Level
Immature
Imm
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Mature
Ma
ture
7.1.1Ceramic plate
7.1.2Helmet
7.2.1Neck & Shoulder 7.4.1
Fuel Cell
7.4.3 EnergyHarvester
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7.1.1Deltoid 7.4.2
DeakinEnergy Storage
7.4.2Deakin
Energy Harvesting
7.1.2Polymer Ceramics
7.3.1ImprovedFabrics
7.1.2Semi-rigid
7.2.1Uneven Weave
7.2.1Uni-axial
Managed Progression up to June 2013
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Contributions
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Industry Research
Industrial involvement increases with project maturity
Non-cash contributions (arbitrary units)
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Thank you
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Mark Hodge – CEO
Level 2, 24 Wakefield Street Questions, discussionHawthorn, Vic 3122Australia
Email: [email protected]
Ph: +61 (3) 9214 4447
Fax: +61 (3) 9818 0622