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America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have named the winners of the Maturation Initiative for Additive Metals Interchangeability (MIAMI) project call, which carries $12.4M in funding through the Warfighting Investments, Resourcing, and Execution office (OSW WIRE) under the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Acquisition & Sustainment. Two teams, led by Northrop Grumman and Fastech, will work to validate that metal additive manufacturing (AM) materials can reliably replace traditional alloys in Department of War (DoW) weapon system components.
The program’s wider goal is to speed up qualification of additively manufactured metals across the defense industr