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• Shipbuilding giant Austal USA recently announced the launch of the Digital SEA (Secure Exchange for Additive) platform, which should play a major role in expanding accessibility to the sorts of...
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Shipbuilding giant Austal USA recently announced the launch of the Digital SEA (Secure Exchange for Additive) platform, which should play a major role in expanding accessibility to the sorts of capabilities that Austal USA and the US Navy are developing at the Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE) in Danville, Virginia. Chief among those capabilities is the Wire AM process from AML3D, which, like Austal USA (albeit on a much smaller scale) is an Australian company benefitting from its outsized role in the US defense sector.
The Virginia CoE, meanwhile, just expanded its own capabilities with the installation of AML3D’s first portable ARCEMY system, a AU$1.2 million (~$864,000) machine mounted in a 20-foot shipping container. This is now the third AML3D system in service at