Portfolio Status: Completed Projects
5523.001 Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing (EBAM) Engine Part Manufacturing and Testing
December 07, 2022
This project sought to understand if electron beam additive manufacturing (EBAM) could be developed into a viable alternative means of sourcing engine hardware and other ground vehicle sustainment...
5525.001 RIA Robotic DED System – Digital Twin Setup and Capability Demonstration
December 07, 2022
The objective of this project was to enable MAM with affordable pre-engineered robotic welding systems via software integration development and to support ongoing development to mature...
5517 Hybrid Additive Manufactured Oil Coolers (HAMOC)
September 13, 2022
This program explored an approach for building sustainment FCOCs utilizing several different manufacturing processes combined into a single end-use component which achieves the intended function...
5001.002.002.002 Metal Lattice Design, Testing, and Application Study
September 02, 2022
The objective of this program was to establish best practices to successfully design and integrate metal lattice structures with a part boundary region such as a thin wall or skin material. A...
5526.001 Reliable Additive Manufacturing 1-Meter Tall
August 05, 2022
The objective of this project was to address the shortcomings of LPBF in printing low-angle overhangs without support and manufacturing taller (up to 1 meter) AM parts in a thin-walled cylinder,...
5529 Site Specific Cold Spray Implementation Approval and Building Best Practices for Future Implementations
June 08, 2022
The objective of this project was to provide the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), all individual Services (Air Force, Army, Navy), and other United States Government (USG) locations with...
5512 Additive Manufacturing Qualified Low-Volume Production (QLVP) for Expeditionary and Small Manufacturer Applications
May 09, 2022
The objective of this project was to improve the operational readiness of the Army’s Ground Vehicle Systems by enabling faster and lower-cost access to replacement parts. The program sought to...
5001.001.002.006 Development of Test Artifacts for the Characterization of AM In-Situ Process Monitoring System
February 28, 2022
The objective of this project was to develop test artifacts and protocols for characterization of MPM system performance for laser powder bed fusion (LPBF). The developed approach was...
5001.001.001.004 Open Analytics Platform for Multi-Sensor In-Situ Monitoring
February 28, 2022
The objective of this program was to apply a developed recoat algorithm for greater access to in-situ data and resulting analytics. Specifically the program sought to provide live and actionable...
5001.001.001.001 Machine Learning (ML) to Enable Rapid Design Allowables Development for Additive Manufacturing
February 17, 2022
The primary objective of this project was to develop two mechanical property design allowables for AM using a single set of empirical data. The project sought to establish an approach to AM design...
5001.001.001.006 Reducing “Time to First Good AM Part” Through In-Situ Sensor Driven NDE
February 16, 2022
The objective of this project was to reduce the time and associated costs of obtaining the first good metal AM part. By correlating in-situ data to ground truth NDE data, the project identified...
5001.001.002.003 Development of a Pedigree Informatic System for America Makes Materials
December 22, 2021
The objective of this project was to develop a human-readable, searchable, and extendable XML-based database to systematically archive various types of data from America Makes projects. The...