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The Advanced Materials, Manufacturing, and Testing Information Analysis Center (AMMTIAC) is the DoD Center of Excellence responsible for acquiring, archiving, analyzing, synthesizing, and disseminating scientific and technical information related to advanced materials, manufacturing, and testing (AMMT). AMMTIAC meets the needs of the warfighter as well as those of the greater advanced materials, manufacturing, and testing community by providing comprehensive support to the nation's defense systems and infrastructure across the entire life-cycle.

The AMMTIAC Knowledge Base

AMMTIAC maintains DoD's knowledge base in AMMT technology in an extensive library offering nearly 300,000 technical reports, research papers, and reference books. A wide-ranging data-acquisition program continually adds reports to the library that are developed by the military Services, thus ensuring the collection's relevance and currency to both newly emerging DoD requirements and fielded assets. AMMTIAC's interdisciplinary engineering staff is world class at employing the available knowledge base to ensure that smart program decisions are made at both technology and systems levels.

AMMTIAC is a Department of Defense (DoD) Information Analysis Center (IAC) sponsored by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) and operated by Alion Science and Technology

AMMTIAC's charter is to carry on the mission of the IAC program in the areas of materials, manufacturing, and materials and processes testing with a special emphasis on nondestructive testing.

AMMTIAC helps acquisition and sustainment programs reduce risk when developing and fielding systems and infrastructure by making them more affordable and maintainable, maximizing their service life, increasing readiness, and enhancing operational safety. AMMTIAC offers the following services to meet these goals:

Technology Services

AMMTIAC is DoD's repository of materials, manufacturing, and testing technology. Our exclusive, immediate access to DoD's legacy knowledge base and our in-depth qualifications in these enabling technologies help clients identify and avoid using problematic materials, processes, and assessment methods that can lead to unplanned (and unbudgeted) maintenance costs, shorter system life-cycles, and reduced readiness of DoD systems.

Engineering System Support

Our broad technical expertise allows us to provide direct engineering support to clients in numerous specialized technologies. Examples include corrosion, armor and ballistic protection, thermal-protection systems, anti-mine technology, rapid prototyping, low-volume productivity, condition-based maintenance, and real-time health monitoring.

Technology Assessments

Improving the reliability of fielded assets is often a reason to search for new approaches, and technology insertion can be an effective way to reduce O&M costs. However, introducing new technologies without first assessing their viability carries considerable risk. We routinely assess new technologies to determine their suitability for specific applications.

Technology Transfer

AMMTIAC assists DoD's AMMT research communities by providing access to critical enabling technologies in various ways. The AMMTIAC Quarterly, for example, is a widely distributed technical publication that is highly regarded within these communities. It highlights cutting-edge research projects sponsored by the Services and related government activities. AMMTIAC also provides direct online access to a variety of databases and information systems to directly support the research, development, acquisition, and sustainment communities.