WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OH (AFRL) — The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate celebrated the opening of the Manufacturing, Industrial Technologies and Energy Division’s Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems, or CAMS, Laboratory during a ribbon-cutting ceremony July 23, 2024. The facility will support the research efforts of its Digital Manufacturing Research Team, or DMRT.
The CAMS lab is the team’s first internal laboratory and will enhance efforts to research and develop advanced digital manufacturing technology for the Department of the Air Force. These efforts toward digital transformation sync up with the Air Force Material Command’s, or AFMC’s, 2023 AFMC Strategic Plan to deploy Digital Materiel Management, or DMM. DMM leverages digital technology to deliver AFMC’s organize, train, and equip mission.