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America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have awarded $6 million to four project teams tasked with developing high-temperature refractory alloys for AM under the PADAM 2.0 program.
The funding comes from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Foundational Technologies Directorate (AFRL/REMD).
Refractory alloys can withstand the extreme temperatures required in defense applications where conventional materials fall short. Getting them into production through additive manufacturing has been a different problem, one held back by incomplete material property data, process variability, and fragile supply chains. The three topics funded under PADAM 2.0 address each of those gaps.
“PADAM 2.0 is about moving AM refractory alloys from promise to practice