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Disrupt yourself or someone else will do it for you: this is the lesson that the US military has been conveying to its suppliers all year. The advanced manufacturing demonstrations that spanned much of the summer have broadcast this message at maximum volume. Expeditionary additive manufacturing (AM) capacity is the objective around which all the others are being organized.
While the present post won’t reach you in time for you to act on the information, the US Army wants three more expeditionary AM systems, all for various polymer materials; proposals were due yesterday, August 31. Anyhow, the call for submissions was only issued on August 24, so the Army presumably had the intended recipients in mind prior to the call’s issuance. In that vein, the notice points out that Geofabrica, base