Projects

3020.001 Materials Informed Data Driven Design for Additive Structures (MIDAS) Challenge

Design

March 13, 2023

The purpose of the effort was to challenge the brightest minds from industry and academia by focusing on validating/improving the accuracy of model predictions for metal AM. The goal of the Air... Read More

3028 Procedure Qualification Scheme Development for Technical Publication Initiative – Arc DED

Process

March 13, 2023

This project aimed to substantiate a relevant qualification procedure to accelerate the application of arc DED within the U.S. Navy for two important structural materials—HY80 steel and nickel... Read More

1141 Manufacturing Engineering Education Program (MEEP)

Education & Workforce

February 23, 2023

The Manufacturing Engineering Education Program (MEEP) addresses the need to better position the workforce to produce military systems and components that ensure technological superiority for the... Read More

5535.001 Maturation of HDH Powder Production Study

Material

February 20, 2023

The purpose of this study is to determine if the contamination level for niobium alloy powders processed via the HDH route using laboratory-scale equipment and novel production practices can... Read More

5534.001 Generation of Additive Material Allowables for Ti-6Al-4V (GAMAT)

Material

February 20, 2023

The purpose of the project is to develop a systematic approach to the generation of statistically based bulk material properties for Ti-6Al-4V via laser powder feed directed energy deposition... Read More

5531 Additive Manufacturing Phase 2, Application Development & Material Study

Design

February 20, 2023

The project quantitatively evaluated relationships between novel AM-enabled design features and effects on product tolerancing, manufacturability, mechanical performance, and flow performance. The... Read More

5521.002 Advancing DRIVE AM – Aerospace Center

Design

February 20, 2023

The purpose of the project is to meet the goals of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) digital engineering strategy which are to 1) formalize the development, integration, and use of models to... Read More

5521.001 Advancing DRIVE AM – Keck Center at UTEP

Value Chain

February 20, 2023

The project seeks to drive research, innovation, and value through education in AM. The objectives of the effort are to 1) insert the DRIVE AM foundation program throughout DoD and expand virtual... Read More

5520.001 Digital Light Processing – Flame Smoke Toxicity

Material

February 20, 2023

The objective of this project was to mature the 3D Systems Figure 4 DLP technology as a qualified alternate source of supply for the manufacture of low-criticality, polymer cockpit components.... Read More

5516.001 Acceleration of Large-Scale Additive Manufacturing (ALSAM)

Process

February 20, 2023

The goal of the project is to deliver a GE Additive M2 Series 5 Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) system to America Makes/Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). This machine contains an open... Read More

5514.002 Data Driven Qualification for Additive Manufacturing – Phase 2

Material

February 20, 2023

Building off the efforts of Phase 1, this project is advancing a data-driven qualification approach that allows relationships across platforms and alloy systems to be inferred using intelligent... Read More

3022 Joint Additive Manufacturing Model Exchange (JAMMEX) ​

Value Chain

January 18, 2023

The objective was to build a system that can be flexible and agile to meet the individual needs of the services. JAMMEX’s open platform simplifies the process of sharing information and... Read More

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