Lightning Talk: Naval Enterprise Sustainment Technology Team (NESTT)
NESTT is a key player in bringing innovation to the Navy’s toughest maintenance and sustainment challenges. Learn how the team takes advantage of the SBIR program and more to connect Maintenance Depots across services to critical commercial technology.
What you’ll find out:
- How NESTT was formed (0:58)
- How NESTT started (2:38)
- Transition Funding (5:25)
- Goals of NESTT (7:00)
- How NESTT has been successful & plans for the future (9:16)
Key quotes:
- “Even though we focus on different platforms — ships, aircrafts, and ground vehicles — many of our challenges remain the same, and we can learn from each other.” (1:15)
- “There are eight common focus areas of need: expeditionary maintenance, robotic material handling, global parts tracking, along with others.” (3:00)
- “In the future, we want to continue additional iterations of developing sustainment integrative priority list, using the Observe, Orient, Decide, Act process.” (7:04)
- “The NESTT has grown to be successful because we have grown and strengthened working relationships between the Navy system commands at the grassroots level and have developed a common DON level sustainment plan, and identified three focus areas: corrosion, digital tracking, and automated inspections.” (9:21)
Who you’ll hear from:
- Joe Sparks, Naval Air Systems Command, COMFRC Advanced Technology Lead
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