September 19, 2018. Danko Arlington is proud to host another bus tour group from DLA Aviation based in Richmond, Virginia. The company has been hosting DLA Aviation tours since 2006. Sponsored by DLA’s Aviation Forging & Casting Assistance Team (AFCAT) and the American Metalcasting Consortium’s (AMC) CAST IT Team, government engineers, buyers, and product specialists had a chance to witness how castings are made within the military procurement system. Showcased this year was the company’s new five-thousand square foot additive manufacturing center for 3-D printing of plastic patterns, and sand molds & cores made by exclusively by robotic equipment.
In addition to seeing how the company has adapted to the Warfighter’s needs for smaller casting quantities which are now produced more efficiently with shorter lead times, the visitors joined in discussions about current and future procurement challenges including post award requests, government inspections, first article tests, and deliveries.
It is unusual that a small company has a chance to directly engage with a government agency, especially the Department of Defense. Overall the tour was mutual success — a true testament to AMC’s and AFCAT’s mission. Danko Arlington is honored not only for the opportunity to be a DLA supplier, but to help bridge the knowledge-gap as well. Together, supplier and government can make a difference.
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