America Makes and NCDMM Launch $14.5M Defense AM Qualification Push

• America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have unveiled two new project calls totaling $14.5 million, both backed by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Manufacturing Technology Office (OSD ManTech). The funding targets a persistent bottleneck in defense additive manufacturing: qualification,  the rigorous, often slow process of certifying…

America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have unveiled two new project calls totaling $14.5 million, both backed by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Manufacturing Technology Office (OSD ManTech). The funding targets a persistent bottleneck in defense additive manufacturing: qualification, the rigorous, often slow process of certifying that 3D printed parts meet military standards before they can enter active use. The America Makes facility in Youngstown, Ohio. Photo via America Makes. Delta Qual 2.0: Rethinking How Parts Get Certified The larger of the two initiatives, Delta Qual 2.0, carries $9 million in funding and attacks qualification inefficiencies across the Defense Industrial Base. Its three technical areas are tightly sco