Additive Manufacturing

The construction of complex three-dimensional parts from 3D digital model data by depositing successive layers of material. Metal, polymer, and ceramic materials can be used to manufacture parts of a geometry that often cannot be produced by any other manufacturing technology. The names of specific additive manufacturing technologies include: 3D printing, layered object manufacturing, selective laser sintering, selective laser melting, LENS, stereolithography, and fused deposition modeling. Synonyms include layered manufacturing, solid freeform manufacturing, direct digital manufacturing, rapid prototyping.

Federal Announcements

America Makes Announces Delta Qual Project Call Totaling $3.2M

April 17, 2023 | Department of Commerce (DOC), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | Manufacturing USA | Additive Manufacturing, Technology

The National Center for Defense of Manufacturing and Machining and America Makes announced a new directed project call funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory worth a total of $3.2M. The objective of the Delta Qual project call is to establish a qualified AM process, rapidly and affordably, allowing for changes in key AM process, post-processing, and/or material feedstock variables while efficiently validating a qualified AM material through statistical analysis.

National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII)

Agency:
Department of Defense (DoD)

Topics:
Additive Manufacturing, Manufacturing USA, Technology, Workforce

America Makes, a Manufacturing USA Institute, is the nation’s leading public-private partnership for additive manufacturing (AM) technology and education. America Makes members from industry, academia, government, and workforce and economic development organizations work together to accelerate AM adoption and the nation’s global manufacturing competitiveness, focused on three areas – developing AM technology, developing an AM workforce, and maintaining a collaborative AM ecosystem.

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Office of Advanced Manufacturing

Agencies:
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Topics:
Additive Manufacturing, Advanced Manufacturing, Biopharmaceutical, Industrial Commons, Small and Medium-sized Manufacturers, Technology

The NIST Office of Advanced Manufacturing (OAM) serves as the headquarters for the interagency Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office to coordinate Manufacturing USA, a network of manufacturing innovation institutes across the country that brings together industry, academia, and the public sector to advance American manufacturing. OAM is also responsible for the NIST-sponsored manufacturing innovation institute, NIIMBL, and other NIST-funded awards to Manufacturing USA.

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Additive Manufacturing

Federal Announcements

America Makes Announces Delta Qual Project Call Totaling $3.2M

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National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII)

Office of Advanced Manufacturing

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