3D printing for defense
3D Printing Financials: Velo3D Lists on Nasdaq and Tightens Its Path to Profitability
After months of cost cuts and restructuring, Velo3D (Nasdaq: VELO) says it’s turning a corner. The company, which recently uplisted to Nasdaq under the ticker VELO, reported its latest quarterly…
Crawl/Walk. Then, Run: 3D Systems’ Aerospace & Defense VP Mike Shepard on How to Scale Military 3D Printing
Defense spending around the world has been skyrocketing in the last few years, with the 9.4 percent growth in 2024 constituting “the steepest year-on-year [YOY] rise since at least the…
From Energy to Defense: Strengthening Supply Chains Through Dual-Use Additive Manufacturing
Dual-use technologies serve more than one sector, often bridging the gap between commercial and defense applications. Additive manufacturing (AM), once seen primarily as a prototyping tool, is now maturing into…
Arun Jeldi’s American Dream: the Velo3D CEO on Where the Company, and Metal 3D Printing, are Headed
“I have a plan for 2050,” Dr. Arun Jeldi told me, “for how Velo3D can keep growing through that time, and longer. I want Velo3D to be a century-old company…
America Makes, MMX, & Where U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Goes from Here
I’ve seen plenty of people say more or less this same thing over the last few years: what’s standing in the way of AM’s scale-up in the U.S. defense industrial…
Reinventing Reindustrialization: Why NAVWAR Project Manager Spencer Koroly Invented a Made-in-America 3D Printer
It has become virtually impossible to regularly follow additive manufacturing (AM) industry news and not stumble across the term “defense industrial base” (DIB), a concept encompassing all the many diverse…
Ohio Ordnance Works Partners With Velo3D on Metal 3D Printing for Defense Initiative
Metal 3D printing firm Velo3D announced that it has partnered with Ohio Ordnance Works (OOW), a Class III arms manufacturer. The company makes the REAPR machine gun and SAW, BAR,…
RAPID + TCT 2025: Exploring 3D Printing’s Role in Defense
RAPID + TCT, North America’s largest additive manufacturing (AM) event, returns to Detroit this April, bringing together industry leaders, innovators, and government stakeholders to explore the latest advancements in AM….
