Delivery Order SP470123D5001-SP470124F0006

The Defense Logistics Agency, Troop Support, issued a delivery order to Advanced Technology International (ATI) on November 2, 2023, with a ceiling value of $7.003606 million under the DLA Emergent Metal Castings Program for metal castings projects related to developing reinforced steel.

ATI is a nonprofit Other Transaction (OTA) prime contractor and research and development facilitator headquartered in Summerville, South Carolina. This delivery order is issued under a parent/child relationship; ATI operates as a subsidiary of Analytic Services Inc. (Anser).

Place of performance is Summerville, SC. The order's ultimate completion date is November 2, 2028. Work covers metal castings projects including high-pressure die casting process development for higher melting temperature steel alloys, addressing cost control, quality improvement, and advanced digital characterization of component surfaces.

The order is priced on a cost-sharing basis. Subcontractors named include the University of California Irvine (advanced thermal management for high-pressure die casting), Colorado School of Mines (cost optimization and quality control for steel die-castings), Iowa State University (advanced digital characterization of component surfaces), American Foundry Society (process relationship quantification for chemically bonded sand systems and cost-effective fast response capabilities), and University of Alabama at Birmingham (tankless water quenching of production steel castings).