DMTC Board
Collaboration
- Date:
- 18 November, 2008
The Defence Materials Technology Centre (DMTC) is the first future capability centre developed under the Government\'s Defence Future Capability Technology Centre (DFCTC) program.
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- DMTC Board
The DFCTC program aims to bring together expertise and resources from industry, universities, and publicly-funded research agencies to develop new technologies for enhancing Defence capability.
DMTC is responsible for establishing, managing and delivering a research portfolio of industry-led projects to increase availability, improve sustainability and reduce through-life support costs of defence equipment.
The DMTC research portfolio comprises 20 projects to be conducted across four programs – air platforms, maritime platforms, armour applications and propulsion systems. Approximately half of the projects concentrate on the development of new materials and manufacturing technologies; the other half on materials and processes for through-life support of existing defence assets.
DMTC projects will develop and deliver:
• new and existing materials for specific defence uses
• validation technologies for new machining processes
• repair technologies for new and existing materials and components
• materials health monitoring systems
• automated component repair systems
DMTC was established with resources in excess of $82 million, including $30 million from the Commonwealth Government, $7 million from the Victorian Government and a further $45 million in cash and in-kind commitments from industry and research sector partners. DMTC’s participants are a wide-ranging cross-section of the industrial and technological supply chain supporting Australia’s Defence capability. The 13 core participants are from defence-related industry, universities and other publicly-funded research organisations. The 16 supporting participants represent industry throughout the supply chain and provide enabling and contracting services to support the work of the core partners.
DSTO played a critical role in the establishment of the DFCTC program and is a core participant of DMTC with direct involvement in several of the research projects.