The ARM (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing) Institute, the nation’s leading Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Robotics and AI, proudly announces a new five-year Cooperative Agreement (CA) with the Department of Air Force (DAF), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The CA has a total ceiling of a combined $87.66M of government funding and ARM Institute cost share.
Under this agreement, the ARM Institute will perform research, development, testing, and evaluation to advance the state of the art in dual-use robotics and automation technologies of interest to the DAF, as advanced robotics and automation technology is critical for the commercial industrial base and organic sustainment enterprise. This will be accomplished by leveraging the existing and growing ARM Institute consortium through ARM Institute-led project calls, utilizing this consortium to foster collaboration between DAF organizations, DAF Defense Industrial Base (DIB) and Organic Industrial Base (OIB), technology development organizations, academia, robot and automation equipment OEMs, robotics integrators, technology solution providers, and other government agencies. For this proposed work, the ARM Institute and its consortium will work within the DAF-specified technology areas of Agility, Robotic Mobility, Multi-Robot/Multi-Human Teaming, Process Modeling, Monitoring, & Control, Advanced Visualization, Scalability & Rapid Commissioning, DAF-Specific Environments, and Manufacturing Process Informatics.