MRO and Spares
Italy PM Meloni’s Bahrain Visit Spotlights ASRY and Roboze’s New 3D Printing Alliance
Bahrain is boosting its high-tech manufacturing, with Italy playing a key role. Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard (ASRY) and Italian 3D printing company Roboze signed a major partnership to build…
AUKUS Installs Metal Part 3D Printed on a Deployed Submarine Tender
In a project showcasing virtually every major theme that has been driving military interest in additive manufacturing (AM) over the last decade, sailors on the U.S. Navy’s Emory S. Land-class…
From Spare Parts to Strategic Advantage: How AM Is Reshaping Defense Readiness
When I talk with defense customers and partners about additive manufacturing, the conversation rarely starts with, “What can we print?” It usually starts with something like, “We can’t get this…
Northrop Grumman & Titomic Achieve Successful Hot Fire Test with 3D Printed Thrust Chamber
Back in April, leading Australian cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) original equipment manufacturer (OEM) Titomic announced that the company was partnering with defense giant Northrop Grumman to test the use…
AM Demand Signals: What A Ball Valve from Shell & Bonney Forge Says About 3DP in the Oil & Gas Industry
The time and resource expenditures required to qualify parts for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry can certainly be demanding. But those requirements are also reassuring. Most obviously, they’re reassuring from…
Firestorm Labs’ xCell Helps U.S. Army Train for 3D Printed Drone Missions
The U.S. Department of War (DoW) has been telling anyone who will listen that the Pentagon is making major changes to how it procures equipment. In a recent speech at…
Trident Warrior 2025 Becomes a Massive Showcase for 3D Printing — With 11 AM Companies in the Field
Every year, the U.S. Navy runs an exercise called Trident Warrior to test new technologies under real operating conditions. In 2025, the biggest surprise was how central 3D printing became….
SPARC: Authentise Makes AM-Optimized Workflow Software Available for U.S. Military Surge Production
Earlier this year, Authentise, the manufacturing workflow software provider based in the UK and Philadelphia, announced that it was working on a collaborative engineering platform called Project DDNA, a defense-oriented…
Ursa Major Closes $100M Series E to Supercharge Its 3D Printed Propulsion Supply Chain
You know Ursa Major, the Colorado-based specialist in propulsion technologies that leverages additive manufacturing (AM) to create a wide range of motors for customers in the defense and space industries….
A U.S. AM Hub in the Indo-Pacific: ASTRO America’s Guam Ecosystem Is Officially Open
A multi-year effort by the Applied Science and Technology Organization (ASTRO) America to build an additive manufacturing (AM) hub in Guam that can serve the U.S. Navy’s demand for submarine…
Pelagus 3D Signs On to Advance Singapore Joint Industry Project
Pelagus 3D is criminally under-talked about in additive. The Singapore-based maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) firm is a joint venture between industrial engineering and steel company ThyssenKrupp AG and marine…
Stratasys Makes Navy Parts for Trident Warrior 25
The US Navy’s Trident Warrior 25 is a live fire manufacturing exercise hosted by FLEETWERX, an organization that wants to bring together companies and academia to drive Navy innovation, along…
Lufthansa Technik Uses FDM To Make Aircraft Interior Parts
Lufthansa Technik has announced that it utilizes Material Extrusion 3D printers to manufacture aircraft parts. The leading aircraft maintenance and interiors firm uses Bambu Lab printers to prototype parts while 3D…
Tier 1 Auto Supplier Angstrom Group Acquires 3D Printed Tooling Specialist Mantle
In what has been a relatively slow year for acquisitions in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry, one exception to the trend has been the healthy interest buyers are demonstrating in…
U.S. Army’s Drone 3D Printing Hits Next Phase with 25th Infantry Division’s Lethal FPV System
I recently posted about how the acting commander of the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC), Lt. Gen. Christopher Mohan, told interviewers at the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) Annual…
3D Printing News Briefs, October 30, 2025: EASA Certification, Ultrasonic Metal Atomization, Kickstarter, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, a Fortune 500 company has grown its deployment of 3DPrinterOS. The Aviation AM Centre achieved an important certification for metal additive manufacturing on EOS…
“We Can’t Wait” – U.S. Head of Army Materiel Command Signals Further 3D Printing Ramp Up
The vast majority of people in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry concerned with defense seem to be focused on the Maritime Industrial Base (MIB), for valid reasons. But all year,…
Markforged FX10 3D Prints Certified Aircraft Parts
Last October, I wrote about how the versatility of the Markforged FX10 helped explain what made the company an attractive asset to Nano Dimension. Recently, the business case for the…
AML3D Lands $3M 3D Printer Deal with Newport News Shipbuilding
Over the summer, Australian additive manufacturing (AM) original equipment manufacturer (OEM) AML3D announced that the U.S. Navy had issued a letter of intent (LOI) to the company which signaled the…
Read the Stratasys & AM Research Tooling White Paper, Then Attend the Webinar October 16
Earlier this month, AM Research released a white paper produced in collaboration with Stratasys titled “3D Printed Tooling: A Generational Opportunity to Reshape Supply Chains,” which you can download here. Now,…
The Network Effect: Why Ursa Major Is Taking its 3D Printing Partnership with EOS to the Next Level
The most encouraging signs for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry these days are coming from the adopters: the companies that have made the technology a living reality by diligently developing…
Dyndrite and Phasio Partner to Create Fully Digital Workflow for HP 3D Printers
Additive manufacturing (AM) companies are deeply aware that they need to lower the barrier-to-entry for their products in order to set themselves up for sustainable growth. The most straightforward —…
All Systems Go: Vaya Space Proves Why 3D Printing and the Space Industry Need Each Other
The space industry has always attracted systems thinkers, and it’s pretty obvious why that’s the case. You have to be able to view the world in terms of a “big…
The U.S. Army Has Zeroed in on 3D Printing’s Drone Ecosystem Role
In a speech he gave at the U.S. Army’s Global Force Symposium back in March, General James Rainey, the head of U.S. Army Futures Command, said the branch was in…
