How is the Army using directed-energy deposition additive manufacturing?
How is the Army using directed-energy deposition additive manufacturing?
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Articles
Johns Hopkins APL, Navy Team up to Advance Additive Manufacturing for Critical Missions
Over the past decade, additive manufacturing has emerged as a disruptive force in advanced defense manufacturing. However, skepticism about its reliability — particularly for building crucial military hardware — has hindered its adoption. Now, through…
Career Exploration: Using Ingenuity and Innovation to Create “Memory Metals”
Othmane Benafan is a NASA engineer whose work is literally reshaping how we use aerospace materials — he creates metals that can shape shift. Benafan, a materials research engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in…
Army Researchers, Academia Create Stronger, More Durable Copper That Could Advance Military Systems
ADELPHI, Md. – U.S. Army researchers, in collaboration with academic partners, invented a stronger copper that could help advance defense, energy, and aerospace industries thanks to its ability to endure unprecedented temperature and pressure extremes….
Webinars
Computational Tools to Predict the Response of UHMWPE Composites to Impact
Ultra-high, molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) composites are advanced materials that lack experimentally driven, physics-based computational tools for predicting their response. This challenge exists for traditional fiber-based UHMWPE composites in a softer matrix material, as well…
The Next Frontier in Energy and Materials: Turbostratic Graphene
Unlike conventional single- or few-layer graphene, turbostratic graphene, which is derived from biomass feedstock, can perform across a wide range of metrics and applications. To raise awareness and increase domestic production of turbostratic graphene, this…
Better, Faster, Cheaper Metallic Components: NSF’s HAMMER-ERC
The U.S. National Science Foundation’s Hybrid Autonomous Manufacturing, Moving from Evolution to Revolution Engineering Research Center (NSF HAMMER-ERC) is a collaboration between five universities to develop agile manufacturing systems that use new tools and advanced…
Events
2025 Advanced Functional Fabrics Summit
This event gathers Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA) members and the greater ecosystem from across the US each year at the Advanced Functional Fabric Summit. Attendees learn about new advanced fiber and fabric technology…
Future Force Capabilities Conference & Exhibition
The NDIA 2025 Future Forces Capabilities Conference & Exhibition will discuss how new technologies and capabilities will influence future military operations. The conference will provide a platform for collaboration between the defense industry and military…
SpaceCom
SpaceCom | Space Congress exclusively draws participation from industry leaders and organizations with the power to drive new space strategies, fuel forward progress, signal demand for continued innovation, inform policy, and institute a sustainable future…