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Check out the taped 13 Dec 2019 TRX Webinar: Additive Manufacturing for Executives, hosted by America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute. Three presenters from academia and industry provide an introduction to AM in a one hour taped webinar. View it on youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOB_wVPGilg
The article from Wired magazine is about the difficulty of getting parts for legacy aircraft and what the Air Force is doing about it. Dr. Roper (SAF/AQ) is sponsoring a new war game called the Air Force Advanced Manufacturing Olympics on 8-9 July 2020 in Salt Lake City.
https://www.wired.com/story/air-force-3d-printing-parts-manufacturing-olympics/
Deployed Marines learn additive manufacturing from Carderock > Naval Sea Systems Command >
In 1986, Colorado-born inventor Chuck Hull received the first patent for a 3D printing technology. At the time, he told his wife that it would take roughly 30 years before the technology would be available for people to have at home.
https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Media/News/SavedNewsModule/Article/2021776/deployed-marines-learn-additive-manufacturing-from-carderock /
Here is a recent article from USNI on the 11th MEU and its use of ADM during deployment:
https://news.usni.org/2019/11/25/marines-at-sea-leaning-on-3d-print-to-order-parts-to-stay-in-the-fight
The Defense Systems Information Analysis Center (DSIAC) recently held a webinar presentation on "Energetic Materials Additive Manufacturing." A video of the webinar is available to view online on Defense Collaboration Services (DCS) via CAC logon at https://www.dodtechipedia.mil/dodwiki/display/DSIAC/Webinars. A PDF of the presentation is also available.
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