Additive Manufacturing

MARSHALL CENTER DIRECTOR PATRICK SCHEUERMANN, RIGHT, DISCUSSES THE FINER POINTS OF USING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TO BUILD ENGINE PARTS WITH DAVID EDDLEMAN, A COMPONENT ENGINEER WITH THE ENGINEERING DIRECTORATE, More

KEN COOPER GIVES AN OVERVIEW OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TO STATE SENATOR BILL HOLTZCLAW, REPRESENTATIVE MAC MCCUTCHEON, GREG CANFIELD OF THE ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, GOVERNOR BENTLEY’S CHIEF OF STAFF, DAV More

2. ENGINEERS AND TECHNICIANS PREPARE FOR AN UPCOMING HOT-FIRE TEST OF A ROCKET INJECTOR MANUFACTURED USING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, OR 3-D PRINTING…(L TO R) WILLIE PARKER, INFOPRO TECHNICIAN, BRAD BULLARD, NASA More

1. ENGINEERS AND TECHNICIANS PREPARE FOR AN UPCOMING HOT-FIRE TEST OF A ROCKET INJECTOR MANUFACTURED USING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, OR 3-D PRINTING…RANDALL MCALLISTER, INFOPRO TECHNICIAN, FITS NOZZLE TO ROCKET INJECTOR

DALE THOMAS, LEFT, MARSHALL AA FOR TECHNICAL WORK AND JAMES LACKEY, RIGHT, ACTING DIRECTOR FOR AMRDEC SIGNED AN AGREEMENT ON MAY 2, 2014 TO ENGAGE IN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS THAT ADVANCE THE STATE OF THE More

NIKI WERKHEISER - 3D PRINTING ZERO-G PROJECT MANAGER, DISCUSSES 3D PRINTING TECHNOLOGY WITH DR. ELLEN OCHOA.1401414 THE ISS NOW HAS A 3D PRINTER, WHICH THE TECHNOLOGY WAS TESTED AT THE MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER

ANDREW HANKS, STRUCTURAL MATERIALS EXPERT AT THE MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DISCUSSES ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING WITH DR. ELLEN OCHOA

DAHLGREN, Va. - A mini-replica of a human head created with 3-D printing technology is demonstrated during a December Print-A-Thon at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD). The reality of 3-D More

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (May 17, 2016) - Navy engineer Steve Price answers an attendee's question about the small additively manufactured modular payload multi-rotor at the 2016 Sea-Air-Space Expo. This low cost, More

Justin Yates, an assistant professor at Francis Marion University, teaches the Marines about the capabilities of a 3D printer at Camp Lejeune, N.C., June 2. Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, allows Marine More

Lt. Gen. Michael Dana, center-left, Deputy Commandant of Installations and Logistics, shakes hands with Col. Mathew Reuter, center, commanding officer of Combat Logistics Regiment 25, at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Aug More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Brig. Gen. Stacey T. Hawkins, Director, Logistcs, Engineering and Force Protection, Air Mobility Command (center) learns more about additive manufacturing capabilities fo More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio— Dr. Dan Berrigan points to an embedded antenna on an MQ-9 aircraft part made possible through functional applications of additive manufacturing. Flexible circuits, embedd More

ARLINGTON, Va. (March 15, 2017) - Members from the Meso-scale Robotic Locomotion Initiative demonstrate the capabilities of an additively manufactured quadruped robot at the Pentagon during a 3D Print-a-Thon. T More

ARLINGTON, Va. (March 15, 2017) – Aviation Electronics Technician 2nd Class Jared Schinse, left, assigned to Fleet Replacement Center (FRC) Mid-Atlantic in Patuxent River, Md., discusses innovative 3D printing More

Craig Hughes from Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (APL) points to a piece of U.S. Marine Corps Expeditionary hardware and highlights the additive manufacturing process used to Dr. John Burrow (center), deputy More

Marines hold a diagram explaining the capabilities they have with current 3-D printing technology at the additive manufacturing facility at Camp Lejeune, N.C., March 22, 2017. Nine members with the Defense Adva More

"Kinsey Science," an electrical engineer assigned to Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Panama City Division, performs feats of science to entertain children during NSWC Carderock Division's “Take Our Daughte More

The additive manufacturing process involves depositing thin layers of composite materials on top of each other. AFRL Composite Materials and Processing team researchers used the ultra-bright X-ray at the Nation More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Researchers at the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, have demonstrated the ability to print solar cells on three-dimensional surface More

A 3-D desktop printer creates a screw at the X-FAB, or Expeditionary Fabrication, Facility Aug. 1 at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. X-FAB is a self-contained, transportable additive manufacturing lab comprised o More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio –A member of the Flexible Materials and Processes team at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate exhibits an additively manufactured el More

Ryan Rogers, an engineer technician with the United States Army Research Laboratory, ensures that an additive manufacturing machine is ready to begin production on pieces for a small unmanned aerial system at C More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – A technique called Hybrid 3D Printing, developed by AFRL researchers in collaboration with the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, uses additive manufacturing to integr More

Samuel Pratt (left), an engineer with the Additive Manufacturing Project Office at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, teaches Office of Naval Research program managers (from left after Pratt) Dr. More

Researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory have demonstrated the ability to additively manufacture high temperature polymer composites for use in extreme environments. The material, made with carbon fiber More

Johnny Ruffa, from the Ship Structures Branch at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, Will Ferrell, a doctoral student at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Dan Hart, an aerospace engineer fro More

180402-N-FV739-1008 USNS SACAGAWEA (April 2, 2018) - Sam Pratt (left) and Bryan Kessel (right), Naval Surface Warfare Center, configure a Uprint SE Plus 3D printer aboard USNS Sacagawea (T-AKE 2) in support of More

U.S. Marines at the Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, California, train in freezing temperatures to get comfortable with their gear and prepare for future missions, April 25, 2018. MWTC Marines wo More

U.S. Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa attend an Additive Manufacturing course at Morón Air Base, Spain, June 27, 2018. SPMAGTF-CR-AF deployed to conduct crisis-re More

The LulzBot TAZ 6 prints a small-scale ship model in the Manufacturing, Knowledge and Education (MAKE) Lab at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division on July 25, 2018, in West Bethesda, Md. The TAZ 6 i More

Marines from I Marine Expeditionary Force learn how to operate the world's largest concrete 3D printer as it constructs a 500-square-foot barracks hut at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center i More

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. – Col. Kenneth W. Letcher, commander, Rock Island Arsenal - Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center, passes around an M4 machine gun with additive manufactured parts, built and teste More

U.S. Marine Corps Master Sgt. Douglas McCue, with Headquarters Marine Corps Next Generation Logistics, speaks to Col. Boyd Miller, the 2nd Marine Logistics Group-Forward commanding officer, about improving rela More

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. – As the Army drives toward improving readiness today and modernizing future equipment, the Rock Island Arsenal – Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center (RIA-JMTC) is establishing t More

A Marine with 1st Marine Logistics Group walks across a concrete footbridge during a 3D concrete printing exercise Dec. 12, at Camp Pendleton, California. Working with Marine Corps Systems Command’s Advanced Ma More

Marines and civilian acquisition professionals pose with a stainless-steel 3D-printed impeller in Twentynine Palms, California. In January 2019, Marine Corps Systems Command reviewed the results of 3D printed i More

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. – Rock Island Arsenal – Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center hosted 1st Theater Sustainment Command Jan. 23 to discuss 3D printing capabilities and the future of minimizing long l More

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Ryan McCormic, the motor transport officer with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, showcases 3D printing capabilities at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Tw More

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. – Rock Island Arsenal – Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center hosted Rep. Dave Loebsack March 1 to discuss additive and advanced manufacturing initiatives and current and future pr More

Jeffery Ward, 402nd Commodities Maintenance Group engineering tech with the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex, scans a new F-15 aircraft stiffener at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, Apr. 17, 2019. Scanning pa More

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. - Prototype parts are 3D printed in the new Advanced and Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence to trouble shoot the machines at Rock Island Arsenal - Joint Manufacturing and Tech More

Staff Sgt. Paul McCollough, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operator and Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Specialist at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, uses an industrial machine to produce 3D-printed objects aboard Mari More

Program Executive Officer Land Systems introduced midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy, pictured on an M1A1 Abrams tank in June 2019, to the military acquisition process through the summer PEO LS Internship P More

A U.S. Marine with Combat Logistics Battalion (CLB) 24, attached to Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command, works on designing a 3D print for use within the battalion’s mai More

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. - Rock Island Arsenal – Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center's Advanced and Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence meets with John Deere's Technical Innovation Center Sept. 1 More

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. - A contingent of the British Army visited Rock Island Arsenal – Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center to discuss additive manufacturing Oct. 7. Brig. Gen. Darrell Amison, the Brit More

190921-M-QP663-1006 INDIAN OCEAN (Sept. 21, 2019) U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Brandon Ballantyne, the communications maintenance chief with Combat Logistics Battalion 11, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), More

Col. Timothy D. Walsh, commander of the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency, speaks during a workshop at Fort Detrick, Md., to discuss additive manufacturing with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 9, More

The Metal X 3-D printer, the world’s first Atomic Diffusion Additive Manufacturing machine, provides 3rd Maintenance Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 35, 3rd Marine Logistics Group the ability to design and More

NAWCAD Lakehurst engineers use the Sciaky EBAM System to fixture a part at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey. The newly acquired system is part of the 2019 expansion of Additive Manufacturing capabil More

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. – Col. Martin J. Hendrix III, Sgt. Maj Sylvorne Walters and other Rock Island Arsenal – Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center team members toured the Moline-Coal Valley School Dist More

Capt. David Sage, 628th Logistics Readiness Squadron vehicle management flight commander, holds a 3D-printed fuel truck cap valve for an R-11 Refueler truck Jan. 14, 2020, at Joint Base Charleston, SC. JB Charl More

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. - Maj. Gen. Lee M. Ellis, assistant deputy commanding general for National Guard Affairs, U.S. Army Materiel Command and Col. Rick Kimmel, senior Army National Guard advisor, Army Sust More

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. - Maj. Gen. Daniel Mitchell, Tank-automotive and Armaments Command commanding general, visited Rock Island Arsenal – Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center Feb. 12, discussing curre More

(Left to right) Jason Bickford, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD) In-Service Engineering Agent (ISEA) of the Future engineering lead and PHD Additive Manufacturing Lead Armen Kvryan More

From left, U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center Executive Director Dr. Juanita M. Christensen talks with Grissom High School seniors John Rodgers and Nathan Eckenrode abou More

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division Command Additive Manufacturing (AM) Lead Engineer Armen Kvryan explains the advantages of AM over traditional manufacturing during an AM Deep Dive within an I More

An Airman shows a challenge coin presented by Maj. Gen. John P. Healy, the commander of 22nd Air Force, here, March 7, 2020. Healy recognized eight Reserve Citizen Airmen from YARS during his visit for their pr More

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. – The Rock Island Arsenal – Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center’s Advanced and Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence 3-D printed a tool for the facility to help combat the More

NAVAL STATION ROTA, Spain (April 7, 2020) – Ear guards constructed from additive manufacturing by Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) will be utilized by medical personnel and patient More

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD) In-Service Engineering Agent of the Future Military Lead Lt. Cmdr. Todd Coursey demonstrates how to assemble face coverings and face shields provid More

NAWCAD Lakehurst is 3D printing 500 face shields at its Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. facilities for the USNS Comfort stationed in New York City to help the fight against COVID-19.

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. – Rock Island Arsenal – Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center received eight 55-gallon drums of hand sanitizer and one 55-gallon drum of food-grade hand sanitizer April 14. In tota More

200421-N-N1809-001 Charleston, SC (April 21, 2020) A 3D printer in Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic’s (NIWC Atlantic’s) On-Demand Manufacturing (ODM) Lab uses additive manufacturing (AM) to print the r More

Depicted is a 3-dimensional reconstruction of an end-of-track defect observed in processing of titanium. The remnant depression visible on the top surface can lead to defects when subsequent layers are deposite More

One of the machines being evaluated prints the test part that all machines were assessed on.

A U.S. Marine with the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Crisis Response - Central Command 20.2, files down the edges of a 3D printed product during an additive manufacturing class in Kuwait, July More

An M249 sight adjustment tool is used on the front sights of an M240 machine gun. The tool was produced via additive manufacturing at the Center of Excellence for Advanced and Additive Manufacturing at Rock Isl More

David Blaylock, Simulation & Test Range Division chief at Rock Island Arsenal – Joint Manufacturing Technology Center, uses an M249 sight adjustment tool on the front sights of an M240 machine gun. (Photo by Ra More

Randall Lewis, Innovation Lab lead at the Naval Air Systems Command In-Service Support Center Fleet Support Team at Fleet Readiness Center East, compares a 3D-printed headband to the model used by the printer. More

NAVFAC EXWC’s Public Works Department and Expeditionary Programs Office collaborate to develop first topographic 3D model of the DOD’s largest U.S. Navy Sea Test Range Facility at Naval Base Ventura County, San More

A soft ultrasonic patch that continuously measures blood pressure waveforms is a current project at NBMC in collaboration with the Dr. Sheng Xu research group at the University of California, San Diego, Departm More

Dr. John Burrow gets behind the wheel of a driverless, Ford F-350 truck with software integrated by the Applied Manufacturing Technology Department at Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division China Lake. The d More

DAHLGREN, Va. - Jason Phillips (right), a Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) engineer, demonstrates the Rapid Prototype HexaPod Robot for NSWCDD Technical Director Dennis McLaughlin. It was More

The AFRL Polymer Matrix Composite Materials and Processing team was granted the opportunity to work in collaboration with beamline scientists at the National Synchrotron Light Source II at Brookhaven National L More

Marines from various units manufacture a ratchet using a 3D printer at Camp Lejeune, N.C., June 2. Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, allows Marines to produce parts quickly, with exact specifications and More

Distinguished visitors from the Department of Defense receive a brief on the Joint Tactical Aerial Resupply Vehicle at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Aug. 17. This version of the JTARV can carry up to 200 pounds, which ca More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Brig. Gen. Stacey T. Hawkins, Director, Logistcs, Engineering and Force Protection, Air Mobility Command (right) and Dr. Donna C. Senft, Chief Scientist, Air Mobility Com More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Dr. Mark Benedict, a senior materials engineer and America Makes Chief Technology Adviser at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate More

Dr. John Fiore (left), Technical Director for Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, listens as Harry Whittaker (right), the team lead for NSWC Carderock Division's Sailor Performance Support Technolo More

ARLINGTON, Va. (March 15, 2017) – Mark Blocksom, left, the deputy department head of fleet and logistics support, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, discusses innovative 3D printing solutions to everyday military o More

ARLINGTON, Va. (March 15, 2017) - Michael Presley (center) and Craig Hughes (right), both from Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, explain the additive manufacturing process for U.S. Marine Corps expeditionary h More

GySgt. Douglas McCue discusses 3-D printing technology being used by General Support Maintenance Company at the additive manufacturing facility at Camp Lejeune, N.C., March 22, 2017. Nine members with the Defen More

"Dan Science," a physicist assigned to Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Panama City Division, mixes chemicals to create different colors and reactions during NSWC Carderock Division's “Take Our Daughters an More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dr. Santanu Bag, a project scientist at the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, is exploring cost-efficient manufacturing of solar cel More

Sgt. Ethan Maeder, a machinist with the 2nd Maintenance Battalion at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, demonstrates how to use a 3-D scanner in the X-FAB Facility Aug. 1. The X-FAB, or Expeditionary Fabrication, Fa More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – One of the most notable, recent projects by the Flexible Materials and Processes team is the transition of 3-D printed conformal antennas to enable Link-16 radio communic More

Marines construct a 3D printed small unmanned aerial system at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Sept. 26, 2017. Technicians from the United States Army Research Laboratory Center for Agile Materials Manufacturing Science de More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – A technique called Hybrid 3D Printing, developed by AFRL researchers in collaboration with the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, uses additive manufacturing to integr More

Will Buttrey, an undergraduate student from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, prints materials using the polymer additive manufacturing (AM) printer March 15, 2018, in the Manufacturing, Knowledge and Edu More

180402-N-FV739-1080 USNS SACAGAWEA (April 2, 2018) - Scott Storms, Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia, creates a 3D layer model for print aboard USNS Sacagawea (T-AKE 2) in support of an additive manufac More

A 3D printer builds products designed by U.S. Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa during an Additive Manufacturing course at Morón Air Base, Spain, June 27, 2018. SP More

Mark Esper, Secretary of the Army, holds up a 3D-printed trigger as he makes a point about the need for increased material modernization throughout the Army during a tour through the Rock Island Arsenal Joint M More

Scott Ziv (right), a mechanical engineer in Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division’s Additive Manufacturing Program office shows John Cartmill, senior software engineer at Carderock, how to properly s More

The world's largest concrete 3D printer constructs a 500-square-foot barracks hut at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center in mid-August in Champaign, Illinois. Marine Corps Systems Command tea More

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Samuel Margarini, a machinist with 1st Maintenance Battalion, speaks to Col. Boyd Miller, the 2nd Marine Logistics Group-Forward commanding officer, about improving relationships and addi More

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. – As the Army drives toward improving readiness today and modernizing future equipment, the Rock Island Arsenal – Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center (RIA-JMTC) is establishing t More

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. – Rock Island Arsenal – Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center hosted 1st Theater Sustainment Command Jan. 23 to discuss 3D printing capabilities and the future of minimizing long l More

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Ryan McCormic, the motor transport officer with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, showcases 3D printing capabilities at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Tw More