Additive Manufacturing: The Next Generation of 3-D Printing

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The U.S. military maintains bases in more than 70 countries and territories around the world, some of them in inhospitable or hard-to-reach areas. When a piece of equipment fails – whether a weapon, a radar dish, or something more prosaic like a mess hall stove – getting replacement parts can be difficult and time-consuming, and the delay can cause anything from mild inconvenience to serious problems meeting the mission.

Larger bases may have maintenance machine shops, where skilled machine tool operators can spend hours carving replacement parts out of blocks of metal (subtractive manufacturing). This often causes a backlog in part throughput via this limited resource.

A new class of 3-D printers that uses polymers and metals to build strong replacement parts – additive manufacturing – is revolutionizing the supply chain, and can be networked together, providing new readiness capabilities among far-flung installations.

Join us as thought leaders from government and industry discuss how additive manufacturing is changing maintenance operations and what comes next.

Speaker and Presenter Information

Speakers

	James L. Zunino III, SSTM Senior Scientific Technical Manager for Munitions Future Concepts and S&T, Army Technical Area Chief (TAC-1), Advanced Materials & Manufacturing, U.S. Army Futures Command, DEVCOM
	Megan Kreiger Mechanical Engineer, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL)
	Tony Higgins Federal Leader, Markforged
	John Breeden Discussion Moderator & Contributing Editor, FedInsider

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