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US Army Looks to Ramp up 3D Printed Auto Parts
At the 15th Annual Ground Vehicle Systems (GVS) Engineering & Technology Symposium, held this week in Novi, Michigan, Eric Wetzel of the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) announced that the…
Concrete Dreams: 3D Printing for Military Construction Enables New Tactics, Pt. 2
The U.S. military is taking an extraordinary interest in 3D printing for construction, with the U.S. Army in particular looking at swarm 3D printing and making better concrete for additive…
US Army Tasks Senvol to Research Metal 3D Printing Repeatability
One of the biggest issues in industrial additive manufacturing (AM) is differences between print jobs, parts in the same build, and on from one machine to the next, even if…
Concrete Dreams: 3D Printing for Military Construction Enables New Tactics
The US military has invested considerably in construction 3D printing. The Army in particular seems like it wants to develop recipes of local concrete mixes from all over the world,…
3D Printing News Briefs, May 13, 2023: RAPID Roundup Part 2
For the second time this week, 3D Printing News Briefs is focused on news stories about RAPID + TCT! From new hires and 3D printer integrations to new 3D printers,…
US Army AMNOW Program – Demonstrating the Digital AM Supply Chain
The Army’s AMNOW program completed its objectives in late 2022. The objective of the 3-year program, which originated with the Aviation and Missile Command (AvMC) and led by NCDMM, was…
US Army Advanced Manufacturing Commercialization Center Set to Open in Detroit Suburbs
On April 6, 2023, the US Army will open the Advanced Manufacturing Commercialization Center (AMCC) in Sterling Heights, MI, less than 20 miles from downtown Detroit. The new facility is…
US Army to Study Construction 3D Printing for Disaster Relief Structures
A $3.5 million contract will see researchers from the University of Arkansas (U of A) study the use of construction 3D printing for disaster relief on behalf of the U.S….
US Army Awards Mississippi State up to $24M to R&D AI-Driven 3D Printing Solutions
Mississippi State University (MSU) announced that it has been awarded three contracts, worth a total of $8 million, by the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), to study…
3D Printing News Unpeeled: Creality 3D Scanner, University of Arizona Hypersonics
Creality is bringing a $349 3D scanner on the market. The scanner is portable, has an ASIC for better image processing, has on board visual tracking, captures color as well…
US Army Awards Wichita State $100M for 3D Printing & Digitization of Ground Fleet
The National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University (WSU) has been awarded a $100 million contract by the US Army, for R&D into advanced manufacturing methods for…
3D Printing News Unpeeled: Haas Meltio Hybrid 3D Printer Installed on Warship
A Meltio and Haas hybrid DED 3D printer offered by Philips Corporation has been permanently installed on a US warship of the USS Wasp class Bataan. French firm Lynxter have…
3D Printing News Unpeeled: A Fully Martensitic 17-4 PH Steel, a New Ender and a Meniscus Bioprinted in Space
17-4 Percipitation Hardened steel has been produced with the same quality and strength of wrought steel. A fully martensitic 17-4 PH steel could become a very popular material in powder…
British Army Invites SPEE3D to Demonstrate Rapid Metal 3D Printing for U.S. Military
The U.S. is intent on further developing a relationship with its closest allies, working together with the U.K. and Australia to 3D print hypersonics and more. Now ,Australian firm SPEE3D…
3D Printing News Unpeeled: Spee3D to Work With US Military, Evonik Releases 3 Resins, Vitro3D Gets Seed Round for Volumetric 3D Printing
Colorado University at Boulder spinout Vitro3D is getting $1.3 million in a seed round for its volumetric 3D printing method. The startup wants to print dental aligner molds and scaffolds…
Gefertec’s arc605 Metal 3D Printer Installed with First U.S. University Client
Thanks to funding from the Department of Energy and the United States Army, the University of Pittsburgh is proud to own the first Gefertec arc605 3D printer at any university…
US Army Chooses MELD to 3D Print Metal Military Vehicles
ASTRO America, the American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMII), and the United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center (DEVCOM GVSC) have partnered to develop a…
3D Printing News Briefs, April 7, 2022: Construction & Research
Today’s 3D Printing News Briefs will start off with some construction news, as COBOD has released a 3D construction printer configurator, and a Japanese company says it’s 3D printed a…
US Army’s Rock Island Arsenal to Receive 2nd SPEE3D 3D Printer
Military forces worldwide are hyped about using additive manufacturing (AM), spurred by the technology’s ability to produce components on demand, at the point of need, without the logistics of traditional…
3D Printing News Briefs, December 1st, 2021: Filaments, Funding, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, BASF has made two of its Ultrafuse filaments available for the Zortrax M300 Dual 3D printer. Moving to business, a consortium led by Authentise…
US Army Robotically Delivers 3D Printed Tank Part in Project Convergence
This was followed up by a document released in June, titled “Use of Additive Manufacturing in the DoD.” The first policy listed in the June document states that “[The DoD…
US Army to Explore 3D Printed Helmets with General Lattice
General Lattice‘s design software is to be used by the U.S. Army’s Development Command Soldier Center (DEVCOM-SC) to make lattices for the military division’s combat helmet. The company is involved…
US Air Force, Navy Fund Senvol Machine Learning Tool for 3D Printing
3D printing data company Senvol has announced that it is receiving funding from the U.S. Navy and Air Force to further their machine learning software. Senvol ML analyses the relationship…
US Army and Raytheon to Use 3D Systems Metal 3D Printing to Heat-Optimize Munitions
3D Systems (NYSE: DDD) has been chosen by defense contractor Raytheon and the U.S. Army’s central laboratory to help with a design optimization project. To do that, the 3D Systems’…
