More RIMPAC Expeditionary AM, This Time With SPEE3D

In my most recent post about the 2026 edition of Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), a biannual exhibition that constitutes the world’s largest joint maritime exercise, I focused on the prevalence of expeditionary additive manufacturing (AM) at this year’s event. I also pointed out that the use-cases I covered in that post and other posts weren’t even the only 3D printing demonstrations at RIMPAC, and along those lines, it’s worth mentioning that the US military has framed the event as the Pentagon’s “largest-ever advanced manufacturing demonstration“.

As more announcements roll in, it appears difficult to challenge that assertion, with the Naval Postgraduate School’s Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing Research and Education (CAMRE) noting that, along with its partners, it “deployed more than