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Spring 2024

  • AMC’s CAST-IT and DLA’s Aviation Forging and Casting Assistance Team (AFCAT) Support Adoption of Digital Copy Overlay Technology for First Article of Casting Approvals
  • Upcoming Events

Winter 2024

  • AMC Awarded Eleven New Projects under Emergent Metal Casting Solutions
  • AMC Innovative Casting Technologies (ICT) Completes a Third Task Order
  • AMC Executive Director Jenny Swygert Leaving ATI
  • AMC Welcomes New NADCA President Mike Meyer
  • Upcoming Events

Fall 2023

  • AMC CAST-IT Team Resolves Delays for DLA Aviation Cast Spare Parts
  • CAST-IT Plans to Bring Together Multiple Divisions Within DLA/DoD
  • Upcoming Events

Summer 2023

  • AMC Conducts 2023 Technology Review
  • AMC Innovative Casting Technologies (ICT) Completes Two Task Orders
  • Upcoming Events

Spring 2023

  • AMC Wins New Program: Emergent Metalcasting Solutions (EMCS)
  • CAST-IT Member Keith Sturgill to Retire
  • Joint AFCAT/MetaL FACT Meeting
  • Upcoming Events

Winter 2023

  • CAST-IT Team Welcomes Greg Sprouse
  • First Group of AMC Innovative Casting Technologies (ICT) Projects Completed
  • Upcoming Events

Additional AMC Newsletters

Fall 2022

  • AMC Participates in Development of Strategic Roadmap for Castings and Forgings
  • AMC CAST-IT Webinars
  • Upcoming Events

Summer 2022

  • AMC Holds Successful 2022 Hybrid Technology Review
  • Joint AFCAT/MeatL Fact Meeting
  • 2022 NADCA Die Casting Congress & Tabletop
  • 2022 Defense Manufacturing Conference

Spring 2022

  • CAST-IT and AFCAT Expanded Heat Treatment Accessibility for Metalcasters
  • AFS CastExpo 2022
  • AMC Annual Technology Review
  • NADCA 2022 Die Casting Congress & Tabletop

Winter 2021

  • Online Casting Cost Advisory System
  • AMC’s Annual Technology Review
  • AFS CastExpo

Fall 2021

  • First Steps to Supplying Legacy Castings Webinar Series
  • AMC’s Integrated Casting Ordering Network (ICON) Wins 2020 Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Award
  • AMC Represented at 2021 Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC)

Summer 2021

  • Business Class Analysis of Casting Solutions for Readiness Task Order 7
  • 2021 AMC Tech Review Now Virtual!
  • Upcoming Events

Spring 2021

  • Advanced Engineered Coatings with Extended Die Life for Tooling
  • 2021 Metalcasting Congress
  • Upcoming Events

Winter 2020

  • First Article Success Webinar Series
  • Integrated Casting Ordering Network (ICON) Award Nomination
  • Upcoming Events

Fall 2020

  • ICON Enhancements
  • New Award: Online Casting Cost Advisory System (OCCAS)
  • Successful Virtual NADCA Congress and Tabletop

Summer 2020

  • Impact of Requiring NADCAP-Approved Heat Treatment Facilities for Castings
  • AFS Metalcasting Congress
  • AMC Conducts a Successful Technology Review-Virtually

Spring 2020

  • Rescheduling of Tech Review to June 16-17, 2021
  • GD&T Success
  • Upcoming Virtual AMC Technology Review

Winter 2020

  • In-Process Weld Rework (I-PWR)
  • Metalcasting Concepts Seminar
  • AMC Represented at 2019 Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC

Fall 2019

  • Team Visits Ohio Die Caster
  • AMC Attends NADCA Congress and Tabletop
  • AMC Researcher Awarded Instructor of the Year

Spring/Summer 2019

  • NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support Employees Tour Effort Foundry
  • CastExpo and Metalcasting Congress
  • Another Successful AMC Technology Review

Fall 2018

  • DLA Aviation Bus Trip and Tour of Danko Arlington Foundry
  • AMC Represented At NADCA and NFFS Annual Events

Summer 2018

  • In-Process Weld Rework of Castings
  • 2018 AMC Technology Review

Winter 2019

  • AMC Visits Iowa Universities
  • Die Casting Collaborators Convene for CIVS, NADCA R&D Reviews
  • AMC Represented at 2018 Defense
  • Manufacturing Conference (DMC)

Fall/Winter 2017/18

  • The Integrated Casting Order Network (ICON)
  • Innovative Casting Technologies (ICT) Award
  • AMC at 2017 Die Casting Congress & Tabletop

Spring 2018

  • Should Cost Tool
  • AMC at 2017 DMC
  • 122nd Metalcasting Congress

Spring 2017

  • AMC Seminar Tour
  • AMC Participates in DLA Industry Day
  • 121st Metalcastings Congress

Summer 2017

  • Casting Quality Tips
  • AFCAT Seminars Featured in DLA’s Loglines Magazine
  • 2017 AMC Technology Review Recap