PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

• Research, develop, evaluate, demonstrate, and transfer advanced technologies of critical importance to the aerospace defense and commercial manufacturing industries in the United States.

• Create knowledge, methodologies and tools that can improve affordability, rapidity, quality, productivity, reliability, and safety in aerospace manufacturing.

• Disseminate the knowledge, methodologies, and tools developed by the Center to the aerospace manufacturing industry through direct technology transfer as well as the development of education, training, and outreach activities.

• Serve as a role model of university-industry-government collaborative partnership.