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The Penn State University Electro-Optics Center (EOC) was established in 1999 as the Navy’s Center of Excellence for Electro-Optics.

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 Energetics Manufacturing Technology Center (EMTC), established in 1994, is Navy operated and located at the Naval Sea Systems Command's Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division (NSWC IHEODTD), Indian Head, Maryland.

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 Naval Shipbuilding and Advanced Manufacturing Center develops advanced technologies and deploys them in U.S. industrial facilities to improvement manufacturing process and reduce costs.

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

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.

Navy technology transfer is the business of transferring technology originally developed by the Navy to other government organizations, government laboratories, government contractors or commercial enterprises.

The Department of the Navy's Rapid Innovation Fund (RIF) is a technology transition program that allows the military to collaborate with small businesses to provide innovative technologies that can be rapidly inserted into acquisition programs that meet specific defense requirements.

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