Direct Digital Manufacturing of Airframe Components in Combat Theatre

Rapid Organic Structural Airframe repair (ROSA) is a digital thread driven suite of tooling-free technologies packaged as an integrated solution to enable organic manufacturing of airframe components in an agile manner to increase asset availability of aircraft, boats, and vehicles. ROSA is an integrated approach to airframe repair & manufacture. The ROSA concept has grown out of research into the direct CNC manufacturing of airframe components from extrusions or formed sheet metal. It recognizes the need to bring together several manufacturing processes into an integrated whole to rapidly-produce parts in one-off batches for the rapid sustainment of air assets close to their mission locations. ROSA is a commercially derived opportunity to bring advanced manufacturing to a field-able MMES (Mobile Maintenance Equipment Systems) for aircraft with a system-of-systems approach to provide two-level maintenance capability to the Warfighter.