ATI - Solving Complex Challenges through Applied Research

ATI Delivers Innovative Solutions to Complex Client Challenges

ATI studies the problems facing our clients, uses domain expertise and collaboration to develop relevant technology solutions, and quickly transfers innovations throughout and between entire industries.

Standards Development

Healthcare standards developed by an ATI-led team have become mandatory for Federal agencies sharing medical information.
ATI leads an international team that developed product data standards used in the manufacture of hundreds of thousands of products worldwide.

Manufacturing Efficiencies

ATI leads programs that have developed technologies to support rapid supply of mission-critical cast and forged metal defense parts. These programs help the Defense Logistics Agency obtain higher quality, cost-effective metal parts while reducing lead times.
Applied research performed within an ATI-led Navy Center of Excellence in Shipbuilding has saved over $20M in total “per hull” costs across several U.S. Navy platforms.
ATI leads a team reducing defects during solidification of cast metal parts, with an estimated annual energy savings of 2.44 Trillion BTUs and $14.7 Million.
Laser imaging and 3-D digital ship design data helps determine the quantity and location of various submarine attachments, resulting in an estimated 85 percent reduction in labor and up to $500,000 cost savings per hull.

Developing and Applying New Technologies

ATI helped commercialize composite-based any-size, any-shape load-sensing technology from an early-stage advanced materials company. ATI identified a new application for the technology - monitoring socket fit to make prosthetics more comfortable for wounded military personnel.

Improving Product Performance

An ATI-led team incorporated composite structural armor into the Marines’ expeditionary fighting vehicle troop ramp door, reduced the weight by 20%, reduced the cost, and maintained the original ballistic protection.
Investments in large composite structures for the Zumwalt Class Destroyers reduced acquisition and life-cycle costs, realizing a per ship cost avoidance of over $3M to date resulting in a total cost avoidance of over $9M.
ATI leads a team developing new die casting techniques using copper alloy in a semi-solid state. The resulting parts are cost-effective, and have forging-like strength and integrity.

Network Reach - Research Resourcing

An ATI-led standards development team with members from over 30 corporate leaders in aerospace, automotive, electronic, and other industries from six countries, collaborates to develop these product data standards.
ATI leads a collaboration of 12 major U.S. shipyards focused on industry-wide implementation of solutions to common cost drivers.

Supply Chain Optimization

An ATI-led defense battery program will reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil and create a stronger, U.S. based advanced battery supply chain - from concept and design to battery disposal and recycle.
ATI-led integrated modeling and simulation research will reduce product development time by an estimated 30% and cut costs by an estimated 50% for the DOD.

Materials Applications

ATI leads teams that exploit the physical properties of materials to improve the quality of a wide range of products. Examples include:

Increasing the reliability of motor rotors using copper
Making Navy platform components lighter and stronger using composites
Increasing the strength of steel parts while decreasing their mass using vanadium steel alloys
Applying anti-microbial copper in hospital settings to reduce infections
Developing composites applications that will save over $100M in acquisition costs on the Navy’s VIRGINIA Class submarine
Developing new manufacturing techniques for cast metal tank track inserts that deliver a high quality product that lasts 500% longer with only four weeks leadtime

Sustainment

ATI leads development of Seabasing applications that help efficiently deliver supplies to and from agile sea bases.
ATI played a lead role in the development of DOD EMALL, an E-commerce site that delivers hundreds of thousands of critical supplies annually to DOD personnel worldwide
An ATI-led seabasing program developed an automated process for unloading and readying weapons components that will enable air-capable ships to increase aircrafts, while decreasing the manpower involved in the process by as much as 25%.
An ATI-led team developed an auto-tensioning, remote operation device to secure and release cargo on the US Navy’s Landing Craft. Benefits include increased sortie rates, reduced personnel exposure in potential hostile fire zones, and a
50-70% reduction in load time and 30-40% reduction in release time.

Interoperability

ATI designed and developed enabling technologies for a National Model Interagency Operations Center for port security
ATI developed and deployed an intuitive, web-based system to collect and share law enforcement data. It is in currently used by hundreds of agencies in 3 states.