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America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have selected the winning teams for Delta Qual 2.0, a $9 million project call aimed at cutting the qualification barriers that slow additive manufacturing adoption across the U.S. defense industrial base. Three teams, led by ATI Materials, Trusted Metal, Auburn University, and The Barnes Global Advisors, will split the funding across three qualification-focused topic areas.
The program is funded by the Office of the Under Secretary of War, Manufacturing Technology Office (OSW ManTech) and targets three specific bottlenecks: excessive testing requirements, inconsistent machine installation standards, and rigid processing-parameter rules that make it hard to qualify AM parts for defense use.
Three topics,