Defense
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The recent, detailed overview of the Army’s use of largely 3D printed engines in its upcoming Apache and other future VTOL military vehicles seemed to indicate that the Department of Defense in the US is now taking AM even more seriously than it has up to this point. In fact,…
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As US Army Production Engineer Mallory Smith James reported (with an excellent in-depth analysis of AM for defense production applications, published on the US Army’s official online portal), the US Army’s Aviation Turbine Engines Project Office (ATE PO) selected General Electric’s T901 turboshaft engine to replace the T700 family of…
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As an additive manufacturing industry media, we certainly have no interest in blowing fire on the ongoing hysteria around 3D printed guns. We don’t think 3D printed guns present a major threat and we consider them to be less dangerous and generally much harder to obtain than actual black market…
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The Marine Corps System Command’s Advanced Manufacturing Operations Cell collaborated with 1st Supply Battalion and industry partners to develop a 3D printed metal steering wheel removal device. These innovative solutions help solve a common problem among vehicle maintenance Marines. “We’re always talking about how Marines move toward the sound of…
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GoProto ANZ, an Australian 3D printing and manufacturing service bureau, successfully delivered locally 3D printed LYNX KF41 parts to Rheinmetall Defence Australia (RDA) as part of its Land 400 Phase 3 offer to the Commonwealth of Australia. GoProto is the first Melbourne-based 3D printing provider to work with RDA and…
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GE has completed testing of its first XA100 adaptive cycle engine, ushering in a new era of combat propulsion. GE initiated testing at its Evendale, Ohio, altitude test facility on December 22, 2020. The engine’s performance and mechanical behavior were consistent with pre-test predictions and fully aligned with the U.S.…
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In 2018, Lockheed Martin’s Technical Fellow Manufacturing Technology Bill Harris gave a talk about how rotorcraft companies were lagging aerospace peers in the use of additive manufacturing to make their products. Two years later, Sikorsky, Lockheed Martin and Boeing are presenting the DEFIANT X, possibly the most advanced military helicopter…
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The U.S. Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office (AFRSO) has awarded blockchain innovator SIMBA Chain a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 grant to develop a solution that will ultimately allow the Air Force to manufacture, test, and deploy critical replacement parts for aircraft and other weaponry on forward operating…
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Inkbit, an MIT spinout that has developed a first-of-its-kind 3D printing platform with vision-based feedback control, has secured a $1.7 research grant from the United States Air Force. As part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract, Inkbit will build three of its additive manufacturing systems, which will ultimately…
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ExOne has been awarded a U.S. Department of Defense contract to develop a fully operational, self-contained 3D printing “factory” housed in a shipping container. Now under development, the rugged 3D printing factory pod would be set up in a standard shipping container, up to 40 feet long, to be deployed…
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