The Future of Additive Manufacturing in the U.S. Military

Abstract

Additive manufacturing of which 3D printing is a subset describes a manufacturing technique in which objects are built up from raw material one layer or three dimensional pixel at a time. Today materials from plastics to a small range of metals can be 3D printed, and the technology is growing rapidly as we write this paper. The DoD, as a large consumer of manufactured goods, is vulnerable to this technology while also being in a position to embrace this manufacturing wave of the future.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 17, 2017
Accession Number
AD1042079

Entities

People

  • Dylan Bell
  • Ehssan Alsuhibani
  • Gregory Sterley
  • Jeffrey Fallat

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Assembly
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Fabrication
  • Fused Deposition Modeling
  • Health Services
  • Intellectual Property
  • Manufacturing
  • Medical Personnel
  • Prosthetics
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Three Dimensional
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Industrial Economics
  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.
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