defense industrial base
American Rheinmetall Orders $300K in 3D Printed Titanium Prototypes for U.S. Army Systems From IperionX
As I’ve noted more than once in recent months, 2025 was the year for critical minerals, and the U.S. additive manufacturing (AM) industry made the most of that. IperionX, the…
EOS Invests $3M In Its Texas Manufacturing & Logistics Facilities to Serve North American Customers
The trajectory of reshoring under President Trump has been largely a mixed bag so far. While tariffs still seem to be doing more harm than good to the U.S. domestic…
Skuld Brings Additive-Enabled Casting Closer to Production Reality
Over the past decade, much of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) additive manufacturing (AM) strategy has focused on proving that advanced manufacturing could work inside legacy casting environments. Today,…
Advanced Manufacturing Reinvents Defense Castings, Strengthens Industrial Base
The convergence of the Fourth and Fifth Industrial Revolutions, compounded by rising geopolitical pressures, calls for a more agile and resilient supply chain. In response, the Department of War (DoW)…
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…
Large Format 3D Printing OEM BigRep Forms Strategic Partnership with Phillips Federal
BigRep, the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of large-format polymer additive manufacturing (AM) equipment, has announced a strategic partnership with Phillips Federal, one of the largest suppliers of advanced manufacturing equipment…
From Concept to Reality: Nikon AM CEO Hamid Zarringhalam on Executing a Metal 3D Printing Strategy
There are countless metrics you can use, whether quantitative or qualitative, to judge the success of an organization. One of the most important may simply be the organization’s ability to…
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…
Nikon Advanced Manufacturing & ASTM International Form Partnership to Bolster U.S. Defense Supply Chain
Nikon Advanced Manufacturing Inc., the California-based, end-to-end metal additive manufacturing (AM) company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with standards organization ASTM International to work together on multiple efforts…
BlueForge Alliance’s Tim Shinbara – a Driving Force for Defense Manufacturing
After an influential history within the manufacturing industry as VP and CTO of the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT), and a former (2020-2021) ASME Congressional Fellow in manufacturing, Tim Shinbara…
Nikon SLM Solutions Partners with ATI and Bechtel Plant Machinery on 3D Printed Hypersonics
One of the world’s most demanding technical challenges is the creation of maneuverable hypersonic vehicles. The country that does so well will command the ultimate high ground. They will essentially…
Stifel’s AM Forward Fund Launches, Looking for US Manufacturers to Invest In
The need for greater resiliency in the defense supply chain is real and urgent. One area the US government has been focusing on is building a faster and more sustainable…
Firehawk Aerospace Partners with JuggerBot 3D, Gets $1.25M from AFWERX for 3D Printed Propellants
Texas-based Firehawk Aerospace, an advanced energetic materials firm that works with aerospace and defense applications, announced a strategic partnership with JuggerBot 3D, an Ohio-based large-format 3D printer manufacturer. Together, the…
Supernova’s Viscous 3D Printing Tech Gets $2M to Support DoD’s Energetic Materials Needs
Supernova Industries Corp., an Austin-based additive manufacturing (AM) company specializing in products and processes for energetic materials supply chains, has been subcontracted by the American Center for Manufacturing & Innovation…
How One Month Will Reshape the 3D Printing Industry
As 3DPrint.com readers retreated to their homes to kick off the holiday season, numerous developments occurred within the additive manufacturing (AM) sector that will surely change the overall shape of…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: December 1, 2024
We’ve got several webinars this first week of December, plus events all around the world, from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Austin, Texas to the UK, Barcelona and beyond. Plus, there…
US Defense Logistics Agency Awards First Competitive Contract for 3D Printed Parts
The US Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), the lead logistics support agency for the Department of Defense (DoD), has awarded its first competitive contract for a component made with additive manufacturing…
Florida State University Selects ASTRO America to Establish 3D Printing Center
The Applied Science & Technology Research Organization (ASTRO) America, a nonprofit advanced manufacturing consultancy and think tank based in Washington, DC and Florida, has been selected by Florida State University…
Nikon Advanced Manufacturing Has a Plan: CEO Hamid Zarringhalam on the Company’s Outlook for Metal 3D Printing in The US
As 2024 nears its end and we barrel right into the middle of the decade, the additive manufacturing (AM) industry still finds itself lacking direction. If there’s one thing the…
Ursa Major & US Navy Make $25M Joint Investment in New 3D Printed Rocket Motor Prototype
Ursa Major, the Colorado-based company dedicated to building a North American rocket propulsion supply chain with advanced manufacturing, has become one of the first recipients of funding from the DoD’s…
Accelerating the Domestic Industrial Base: ATDM Director Holley on Workforce Development for Advanced Manufacturing
At this point, it’s a familiar story: the US faces a critical lack of manufacturing workers in the next decade. Estimates are that, by 2032, the nation’s manufacturing labor pool…
Four Reasons Why the Department of Defense is Outsourcing to Contract Additive Manufacturers
Equipment downtime is unacceptable. In the commercial environment, this results in loss of dollars and opportunities. On the battlefield, equipment downtime can be catastrophic and jeopardize the lives of servicemen…
Senators King and Collins Advocate 3D Printing Adoption for Department of Defense
At a Strategic Forces Senate hearing, Independent Maine Senator Angus King (I-ME) urged the Department of Defense (DoD) to embrace 3D printing technology for faster, more cost-effective maintenance of military…
3D Printing & the Military: It Takes a Village to Make a Nuclear Bomb
In previous installments in this series, we explored how the U.S. military is preparing to utilize additive manufacturing (AM) technologies. Then, in another article, we discussed the idea that possessing…
