EMPF Partnerships
The
EMPF maximizes its technology impact through the use of its successful
national R&D and technical transfer/deployment networks who work
with a variety of industrial, academic, and government organizations.
This structure enables the EMPF to highly leverage these existing
technical relationships to deliver innovations to a broad base;
provide the key link to the factory floor; and, to systematically
identify new MANTECH requirements for the benefit of DoD.
The EMPF receives invaluable guidance from its Industrial
Advisory Board, which consists of representatives from major Defense
manufacturers. The Board provides important feedback to ACI ensuring
that the key electronics manufacturing issues are identified,
documented, and represented on the research agenda of the Center.
This ongoing joint Industry/DoD participation is the cornerstone
of the successful EMPF model.
The EMPF's modern Demonstration Factory is an important
link to the factory floor. The Demonstration Factory is supported
by many electronics manufacturing equipment manufacturers who
supply millions of dollars of the latest in electronics manufacturing
equipment for use at the EMPF. The EMPF's Equipment Advisory Board
consists of representatives from many of the leading electronics
manufacturing equipment firms in the country who provide guidance
and resources to the EMPF. This partnership ensures successful
technology transfer and deployment, which is a critical milestone
of all research endeavors.
The EMPF receives substantial industry participation
through cost share/leveraging. A joint industry-government approach
to cost sharing is encouraged on all technology development (thrust)
projects undertaken by the EMPF. The cost share goal on these
types of research projects is one ($1) industry dollar for one
($1) Federal dollar match. For projects started within the last
four (4) years by the EMPF, industry has proposed cost share at
a rate of two ($2) industry dollars for each Federal dollar received
on these projects.
