defense manufacturing
Stratasys Partners With Defense Prime Heavyweights to Qualify SAF PA12 for Industrial 3D Printing
Perhaps the most valuable lesson that the additive manufacturing (AM) industry has learned in its technical maturation era over the last five years or so is that you can’t really…
Via EOS Partnership, Texas’s ACMI Is the First Customer for the AMCM M 8K 3D Printer
EOS’s two major announcements in the last few months have been the launch of the EOS M4 ONYX at Formnext 2025 and the news from a couple of weeks ago…
Factories-as-a-Service Startup Hadrian Launches Additive Manufacturing Division
Equity markets are in the midst of a moment that’s being called “the Great Rotation“, which is essentially the normal sector rotation that happens in any bull market, but framed…
Nano Dimension Previews Q4 Revenue Above Guidance as U.S. Redomiciling Advances
After months of relatively limited public information about its long-term direction, Nano Dimension (Nasdaq: NNDM) has surfaced with an update: stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue, progress on a strategic alternatives review, and…
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…
Roboze Opens U.S. Aerospace & Defense Headquarters in El Segundo
The manufacturing sector is made up of clusters: “geographic concentrations of interconnected companies” that both cooperate and compete with each other. Of course, this is true about any sector in…
ASTM International Works with UK MoD on America Makes Project
The UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) will work with ASTM International on a $1.1 million project to let it work in closer concert with the US Department of War (DoW)….
Top 10 Moonshot Ideas for 3D Printing’s Future
As the year comes to a close, it’s clear that additive manufacturing (AM) is entering a new phase. Costs are falling, supply chains are changing, government spending is rising, and…
Titomic Lands First Order for 3D Printed Semiconductor Capital Equipment Components
One of the markets that should be a reliable source of growth well into the future for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry is semiconductor capital equipment (semicap). When Additive Manufacturing…
3D Printing Companies Win Big in LIFT’s Advanced Materials Challenge
Last year, Detroit’s LIFT, the Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) that specializes in lightweighting, announced the Advanced Materials Challenge (AMC) Program, a project call seeking advanced materials solutions for components relevant…
Export-Import Bank of U.S. Loans $27.4M to 6K Additive to Boost U.S. Metal Powder Output
Critical minerals have overtaken news cycles all year, with U.S. tariffs and Chinese export curbs disrupting supply chains and driving new waves of investment. As recently as last week, at…
Europe’s Reshoring Moment: How AM Can Power Industrial Recovery
For years, Europe has seen much of its manufacturing base shrink as production has moved overseas and global competition has increased. Now, the region is trying to bring that work…
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)…
Who Buys AM in Government: How Stanford’s Steve Blank & BMNT’s Pete Newell Are Helping Startups Serve USG Customers
What’s the most difficult part about selling to the government market? For a company that has never done it before, the answer quite likely is: knowing how to get started,…
A Circular Way to Print: Turning Tornado Fighter Jets Into 3D Printing Powder
In a lab in Lancashire, engineers are doing something that sounds almost poetic: turning pieces of retired fighter jets into raw material for the next generation of aircraft. British company…
Belgium Deepens Ties to F-35 Program Through Engine Manufacturing and 3D Printing Deal
Belgium officially received its first F-35 Lightning II fighter jet during a ceremony at the Jean Offenberg Air Base in Florennes on October 13. The event not only celebrated the…
Who’s Investing in 3D Printing in 2025? Potential Directions for AM Industry Consolidation
In the first part of this look at the general flows of capital into the additive manufacturing (AM) industry in 2025, Vanesa Listek did a masterful job of diagramming the…
Inside Adina Krausz’s Blueprint for Investing in 3D Printing
Adina Krausz has spent two decades moving between banking, family offices, and innovation hubs. Today, she leads InnoSource Ventures, the innovation arm of family office Toledo Capital, where she and…
IperionX Gets $12.5 Million from the DoD to Ramp Up U.S. Titanium Production
Titanium technology company IperionX (ASX: IPX) has received $12.5 million from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to boost titanium production at its Virginia manufacturing campus. This money is part…
A 3D Printed Chilled Water Pump Cooling Rotor: The U.S. Navy Keeps Using AM to Cut Costs
One of the surest ways for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry to illustrate that AM is a differentiator is by creating use cases that deliver quantifiable lead time and/or cost…
AM Demand Signals: Unusual Machines’ CEO Allan Evans Explains the White House Executive Order on Drones
In terms of all the many factors out there with the potential to impact demand outlook for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry, an executive order issued by the White House…
Authentise and Kform Tackle Defense Bottlenecks with Project DDNA — A Scalable Business Opportunity?
Authentise, a Philadelphia and UK-based software provider specializing in workflow management solutions for digital manufacturing technologies, has launched Project DDNA, a defense-oriented platform built off of its Threads and Flows…
Fortius Metals’ Jeph Ruppert on Why Wire-Based AM is Ready for Takeoff
Jeph Ruppert may have only been at Fortius Metals for a couple of months, but he knows the intricacies of additive manufacturing (AM) like someone who’s been steering the company…
Ruggedized: How USMC Innovation Officer Matt Pine Navigates 3D Printing in the Military
Disclaimer: Matt Pine’s views are not the views of the Department of Defense nor the U.S. Marine Corps Throughout this decade thus far, the military’s adoption of additive manufacturing (AM)…
