defense manufacturing
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)…
U.S. Congress Calls Out 3D Printing in Proposal for Commercial Reserve Manufacturing Network
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee moved the FY 2026 defense bill forward to the House floor. Included in the legislation is a $131 million proposal for…
Velo3D and US Navy Sign R&D Agreement to Characterize 3D Printing Materials for Aerospace
After going through major changes last year, including being delisted from the NYSE and being acquired by Arrayed Additive, Silicon Valley-based metal 3D printer OEM Velo3D has been picking up…
Talent Needed: EOS’s Fabian Alefeld & the US Navy’s Justin Rettaliata Discuss Why They’re Teaming Up to Train the 3D Printing Workforce
No amount of attention that the additive manufacturing (AM) industry devoted to the challenge of workforce development could be considered “too much” these days. Nowhere is this truer, perhaps, than…
Chaos & Opportunity
Great fortunes are lost and won amidst quicksand. When well-trodden paths turn to labyrinths, the concrete is sublimated into morass, sunshine turns to hail, and 20/20 vision becomes blindness; new…
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….
3DPOD 239: Joe Calmese, ADDMAN President & CEO
Joe Calmese talks to us about the financing of additive manufacturing, machine prices, and utilization. He runs ADDMAN, a large, high-end service bureau that produces many critical components, including defense…
New Titomic Advisory Board Targets Cold Spray 3D Printing at Missiles and AUKUS Priorities
If you’re in additive manufacturing (AM) and you don’t have a retired military leader as an advisor, now is the time to get one. As discussed in a recent PRO…
3D Printing: Time for a Rebrand?
“3D printing” used to symbolize innovation and a promising manufacturing future—but not so much anymore. However, many governments are now striving to revive local manufacturing and bolster industrial bases. At…
3D Printing News Briefs, December 28, 2024: Awards, Fast-Curing Silicone Ink, & More
We’re starting off with awards in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, and then moving on to some interesting AM materials news. Read on for all the details! SME Recognizes Manufacturing…
