Improved Extrusion and Milling Techniques

In Command and Control spaces on U.S. Navy ships technology upgrades occur every six to eighteen months. During both initial ship construction and operation the U.S. Navy is faced with ever increasing costs to maintain current technology at the warfigther’s finger tips. The FlexTech Modular Track system has been developed to enable modularity and open architecture in ship construction, which creates reconfigurable work spaces aboard ships. The goal of this project is to optimize the manufacturing processes used to fabricate the complex aluminum alloy track used in the FlexTech system. Surface Treatment Technologies will focus on improving tolerances of finished beams which will decrease costs associated with installation of the FlexTech system.