Defense
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Global technology company Aptiv has teamed up with 3D printing specialist Carbon to introduce a new commercial additive manufacturing program. The AM program, reportedly capable of delivering repeatable, high-quality products that achieve military standard qualifications, is currently being presented at IMTS in Chicago by Aptiv at Carbon’s booth. IMTS is…
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Israeli specialist in electronics additive manufacturing Nano Dimension has announced the sale of two DragonFly Pro 3D printers to branches of the United States Armed Forces. The company, which achieved U.S. Government Certified Vendor status in June, says the sales were closed in the weeks following the announcement. The two…
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When I started in 3D printing over 20 years ago, my first project sought to create a better world by using 3D printing to reduce ocean plastic and to close the loop of production through localization. Maybe it was a utopian idea at the time, but now, after years of…
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Investigators at the Army’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN), located at MIT, have developed a 3D printing platform that can enable both the modeling and design of complex magnetically actuated devices. This new 3D printed robotic structures can squeeze in tight spaces like a crack in the wall of a…
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Whenever the theme of 3D printed weapons is brought up, a sort of schizophrenic mass hysteria emerges from both sides of the battlefield. The generalist media and public panic over the idea of anyone turning terrorist and 3D printing a gun in his own home; 3D printing enthusiasts and industry…
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Senvol has joined the National Armaments Consortium (NAC). NAC is the industry and academia component of the Department of Defense Ordnance Technology Consortium (DOTC) and is the preeminent collaboration organization that enables the U.S. Government, industry, and academia to deliver rapid armaments innovation for the United States’ security. DOTC was…
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3D Systems has announced a new partnership with Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding—the shipbuilder’s division responsible for designing, building and refuelling the U.S. Navy aircraft carriers as well as one of its two submarine suppliers. Through the alliance, the companies say they will work together to qualify metal additive…
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From February 26 to July 20, 2018, Naval Group and its partner AvenAo Prodways Group are experimenting with the French Navy an embedded additive manufacturing process. A 3D printer was made available to the crew of the Projection and Command Building (BPC) Diksmuide for the “Jeanne d’Arc” * mission, as part of the…
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The Office of Naval Research, through its Quality Metal Additive Manufacturing (Quality MADE) program, has awarded Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) a $2.6 million two-year contract to supply technology solutions that will ensure the manufacturability of quality metallic parts from additive manufacturing (AM) machines. This could move the U.S. Navy closer to…
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The Shot 2018 show is ongoing in Las Vegas. While several media fire up the debate on the right to own firearms, loudly making headlines, a much quieter segment of gun manufacturing is also making a lot of noise: 3D printed silencers (or suppressors). According to a reportage appeared on The Firearm…
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