Projects

5550 Common Additive Manufacturing Qualification Template (CAM-QT)

Material

August 09, 2023

The objective of this project is to document the qualification requirements of in-service metal AM parts accepted by design authorities of three engine OEMs as part of their individual... Read More

5540.001 – Additive Manufacturing Casting Replacement Optimization (AMCRO) – Heat Treating and Chemistry

Material

August 07, 2023

The objective of this effort is to develop and demonstrate an optimized wire-arc DED process and post-process heat-treating procedures for the casting replacement of HY-80 steel castings. This... Read More

5540.002 – Development & Transition of HY80 Steel for Qualification to NAVSEA WIRE-DED Tech Pub

Material

August 07, 2023

Wire-Arc Directed Energy Deposition (DED) is capable of flexibly printing large parts at high deposition rates; coupled with advanced ICME modeling tools (e.g., thermodynamic and kinetic modeling,... Read More

5545.001 NAVSEA – Edison Welding Institute AM Qualification

Material

August 03, 2023

The objective of this project is to provide NAVSEA with test samples and process qualification test reports (PQTRs) that can be used to develop qualification requirements and procedures for... Read More

5001.001.002.004 – Characterization of Metal AM Process Surface Features

Process

July 24, 2023

The objective of the project was to identify which additive manufacturing (AM) sensing modalities are best suited to quantify L-PBF surface roughness. Furthermore, the focus of this program was to... Read More

5001.002.001.005 – Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing Data Package Maturation

Material

July 24, 2023

The goal of this program was to create a statistically significant tensile data set to meet the forthcoming Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization (MMPDS) Volume II D-Basis... Read More

5536 – AM to Augment the Casting & Forging Industries

Process

July 24, 2023

The purpose of the project is to convene the U.S. additive manufacturing (AM) ecosystem, along with the domestic casting and forging ecosystem to determine opportunities for AM to augment or... Read More

5001.002.001.003 Strategies for Real-Time Defect Mitigation for Additive Manufacturing Processes

Process

July 21, 2023

The objective of this effort was to develop and demonstrate key processes necessary to realize interlayer repair in a LPBF system based on automated flaw detection demonstrated in prior efforts.... Read More

5537.001 – Manufacturing Innovation for Organic Industrial Base (OIB) Modernization – Pilot Program

Process

July 18, 2023

Identify and map recommended advanced manufacturing technologies to improve efficiency and effectiveness at Department of Defense (DoD) OIB facilities to sustain and/or improve next-generation... Read More

5521.003 DRIVE AM – Phase 3

Value Chain

July 18, 2023

Train active duty, transitioning soldiers, and DoD personnel to 1) best utilize AM to support maintenance and sustainment activities, and 2) leverage AM to maintain superiority within DoD... Read More

5502 – Advanced Manufacturing Crisis Program Response (AMCPR)

Process

July 17, 2023

Create and demonstrate an enduring, strategic infrastructure that provides a means to rapidly respond to national, regional, and local supply chain shortages in times of crisis, ultimately... Read More

1141.000 Digital Data Management for Transcribing Structural Part Performance Across AM Platforms

Process

July 05, 2023

The multi-year, long-term goal is to qualify structural parts for use straight from the manufacturing process, without the need for a nondestructive evaluation or lot acceptance testing step. This... Read More

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