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CCAM’s Annual Research Day Event is a 2-day event highlighting efforts to improve US manufacturing supply chain resilience.
November 14th, 9:30 am – 7:30 pm
November 15th, 8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Location: CCAM, 5520 West Quaker Rd, Disputanta, VA 23842
Learn how manufacturing industries and government are working to grow talented people that are developing, validating, and implementing new technology for manufacturing materials, processes, and products. Collaborate with the CCAM community of industry, government, and academic experts to address gaps in current programs and capabilities and develop novel approaches that will transform manufacturing supply chains.

Matthew D. Sermon, Executive Director, PEO, Strategic Submarines
Keynote Speaker: Matthew Sermon, Executive Director, Program Executive Office, Strategic Submarines
Topic: “Scaling Advanced Manufacturing in the Submarine Industrial Base”
Topics will focus on the 3 T’s: Technology + Talent + Transition = Supply Chain Manufacturing Transformation, including:
- Advanced Analytics – The Importance of Linking Manufacturing Information and Models
- Roadmapping: Gaps in Digital Tools for Supply Chain Resilience
- Additive Manufacturing Ecosystems for New Component Builds & Repair
- And more!
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Speakers include:
- Matthew Sermon, Executive Director, Program Executive Office, Strategic Submarines
- Jan de Nijs, Lockheed Martin Tech Fellow for Enterprise Digital Production, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics (LM Aero)
- Joy Polefrone, PhD, Executive Director, Alliance for Building Better Medicine
- Matt Stremler, Director of Research, CCAM
- Dennis Brandl, President, BR&L Consulting, Inc.
- Eric Edwards, MD, PhD, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Phlow
- Derek Hass, PhD, Principal Research Engineer, CCAM
- Chris Williams, PhD, Director, DREAMS Lab and L.S. Randolph Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech
- Sam Pratt, PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech
- Benjamin Standfield, Research Engineer II, CCAM
- Will Sobel, Will Sobel, Chief Architect, MTConnect
- Yuri Plotnikov, PhD, Senior Research Engineer, CCAM
- Kyle Snyder, Research Engineer II, CCAM
November 14, 2023
9:30 AM – 7:00 PM
CCAM, 5520 West Quaker Rd, Disputanta, VA 23842
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November 15, 2023
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
CCAM, 5520 West Quaker Rd, Disputanta, VA 23842
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