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FT Selected for up to 25M APFIT Award!

Updated: 7 days ago


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DERBY, Kansas - Fairmount Technologies (FT) is ecstatic to announce that we have been selected for award as part of the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering’s (OUSW(R&E)) Accelerate the Procurement & Fielding of Innovative Technologies (APFIT) Program. As the first APFIT award to a Kansas company it will fund the acquisition and fielding of a total of 18 XTRU machines at select core MRO depots and Aircraft Battle Damage Repair (ABDR) units.


Fairmount Technologies’ patented implementation of traditional forming and machining technologies in portable CNC machines, capable of developing the part geometry by CNC control of machine kinematics without needing part specific tooling, enables this revolutionary capability to produce complex structural components that meet all airworthiness requirements at the point of use. Very large machines, and warehouses full of springback compensated tools that are currently required are replaced with CNC part programs for rapid prototyping of spare parts and for serial production, saving significant cost and lead time that is currently required for tool development.  XTRU Smart Manufacturing Cells will increase readiness by helping reduce non-mission-capable assets.

“XTRU is a great advanced manufacturing solution to traditional process bottlenecks and has actually produced spare airframe components to spec for DOD and commercial aviation,” said Jordan Peter, General Manager of Fairmount Technologies. “We are excited to provide this capability for our nation’s warfighters to get aircraft back flying much quicker compared to traditional manufacturing processes.”


Fairmount Technologies is committed to enabling our warfighters with the force multiplier benefit of digital thread based rapid airframe spares production. With this funding FT will scale operations through:

  • Recruiting experienced machine builders, production staff and engineers 

  • Developing new assembly cells to ramp up production to meet the contract timelines

  • Establish a customer service center to provide training, development, and manufacturing technical data package (TDP) generation.

Career positions and application instructions can be found at CAREERS | Fairmount Technologies


Fairmount Technologies gratefully acknowledges the groundswell of support from a broad coalition of sustainment organizations who have championed this technology transition, sponsoring agencies that have helped develop, mature, and productionize three generations of stretch forming, milling, and joggling machines over the past 15 years, Wichita State University that helped incubate this technology over that period, and our many dedicated staff, without which this would not have been possible.


We look forward to sharing more about our continued growth! To contact us directly via email, phone, or to join our mailing list, visit CONTACT | Fairmount Technologies


 
 
 
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