Actionable Directions for the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Air Force to Enhance Mid-Scale Manufacturing: Issue Paper (2025)
Chapter: Appendix D: Defense Materials, Manufacturing, and Its Infrastructure Standing Committee
Appendix D
Defense Materials, Manufacturing, and Its Infrastructure Standing Committee
This Issue Paper was conducted under the auspices of the Defense Materials, Manufacturing, and Its Infrastructure Standing Committee (DMMI), an activity of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and sponsored by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Navy. The DMMI’s purpose is the advancement of materials science and engineering, manufacturing, and the infrastructure issues related to materials science and manufacturing in the national interest. Many of the issues that these departments will need to address within the next several years are systems-based complex problems. Of these problems, those that are being addressed by this committee include significant issues regarding materials, manufacturing, and their infrastructural activities related to a military focus on personnel, platforms, and the manufacturing/industrial base, with transfer of relevant technologies to the commercial sector as appropriate.
DMMI STANDING COMMITTEE: Thomas R. Kurfess (NAE), Georgia Institute of Technology, Chair; David E. Aspnes (NAS), North Carolina State University; Jian Cao (NAE), Northwestern University; Brent Carey, MACH-20, LLC; Julie A. Christodoulou, Principal, Materials & Manufacturing Innovation, LLC; Katherine T. Faber, California Institute of Technology; David Furrer (NAE), Pratt & Whitney; Jason R. Hattrick-Simpers, University of Toronto; Andrea M. Hodge, University of Southern California; Jennie S. Hwang (NAE), H-Technologies Group; William P. King, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; John J. Koszewnik (NAE), Achates Power (retired); Leila Ladani, Arizona State University; Michele V. Manuel (NAE), University of Florida; C. Kumar N. Patel (NAS/NAE), Pranalytica, Inc. (retired); Gamal Refai-Ahmed (NAE), AMD; Lourdes Salamanca-Riba, University of Maryland; Karen A. Thole, University of Michigan; Morgana Trexler, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Rudy Wojtecki, Applied Materials; Pablo D. Zavattieri, Purdue University
STAFF: Michelle Schwalbe, Senior Program Area Director, Physical Sciences, Systems, and Infrastructure; Erik B. Svedberg, Scholar, and Deputy Director, National Materials and Manufacturing Board, and Deputy Director, Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics; Samantha Koretsky, Research Associate; and Joseph Palmer, Senior Project Assistant
NOTE: The individual authors are solely responsible for the content of issue papers, which do not necessarily represent the views of the authors’ organizations or of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
