Huntington Ingalls Industries
HII’s NXG 600E Order Shows Why Nikon Dominates Large Defense AM Systems
Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) unit has ordered a Nikon SLM Solutions NXG 600E. HII is a $11 billion revenue shipbuilder that builds the Gerald R. Ford-class…
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…
Largest American Shipbuilder Installs 3D Printed Assembly on Aircraft Carrier
Shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has announced that Newport News Shipbuilding has installed a 3D-printed valve manifold assembly on an aircraft carrier. The company stated, “The use of certified 3D-printed…
General Dynamics & Huntington Ingalls Industries to 3D Print Submarine Parts
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII’s) Newport News Shipbuilding division and General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB), the two companies most integral to the US Submarine Industrial Base (SIB), have partnered to accelerate…
3D Printing News Unpeeled: 316L Qualified for the Navy, Markforged & Continuous Lawsuit, Teddy Bears
Huntington Ingalls Industries has gotten NAVSEA approval for a qualified 316L material for 3D printing. This begs the question, who will 3D Print parts for the Navy? And why are…
3D Systems First Company to Market New Copper-Nickel Alloy for Laser PBF 3D Printing
3D Systems, the South Carolina-based additive manufacturing (AM) pioneer, announced that the company is the first to market in the AM sector with a powder-based version of CuNi30, a copper-nickel…
The USS Harry S. Truman: Metal 3D Printing to Play a Role in Designing Navy Warships
3D printing in the military has been ongoing long before such technology became available—or even known—in the mainstream. And the Navy is certainly no stranger to additive manufacturing or forward-thinking…
