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The Navy ManTech Program Investment Strategy concentrates ManTech investments on reducing both the acquisition and life-cycle costs of key Navy acquisition programs.

Achievements and successes of the Navy ManTech program are numerous and varied.

The Navy ManTech program responds to naval needs for the production and repair of platforms, systems and equipment.

Managed within the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Navy ManTech Program provides for the development of enabling manufacturing technology and the transition of this technology for the production and sustainment of Navy weapon systems to support the Fleet.

The Navy ManTech Program executes its projects primarily through its Centers of Excellence. The COEs were established as focal points for the development and transition of new manufacturing processes and equipment in a cooperative environment with industry, academia and the Naval Research Enterprise.

The directors of the ManTech programs of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Defense Logistics Agency and Missile Defense Agency coordinate their programs through the auspices of the congressionally-chartered Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Panel (JDMTP) with representation from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Department of Energy, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and industry.

The Institute for Manufacturing and Sustainment Technologies (iMAST), established in 1995, coordinates Navy ManTech efforts at The Pennsylvania State University’s Applied Research Laboratory (ARL), one of four U.S. Navy University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs).

The Electronics Manufacturing Center (EMC) was established in 2021 to identify, develop and facilitate the transition of electronics manufacturing technologies to reduce the cost and time to deploy electrical and electronic (digital and analog) systems as well as the supporting power storage and distribution infrastructure to naval ships, aircraft, submarines and unmanned systems.

The Center for Naval Metalworking (CNM) develops and deploys innovative metalworking and related manufacturing technologies to reduce the cost and time to build and repair key U.S. Navy ships and weapons platforms.