Divergent Technologies qualified for US Army ground vehicle parts production
Divergent Technologies, based in Torrance, California, USA, reports it has been formally qualified for Additive Manufacturing US Army ground vehicle parts through the Complex AM Assembly Printing Pilot CRADA with the US Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC).
Divergent’s Additive Manufacturing is based around its Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS™), an end-to-end structural engineering design and manufacturing process that leverages AI-driven design, Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB) Additive Manufacturing, and robotic assembly.
“This qualification validates our Additive Manufacturing process for mission-critical hardware and marks another step toward software-defined manufacturing at scale for defence,” the company stated on LinkedIn.
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The US Army DEVCOM GVSC is the US Army’s research and development centre for advanced ground vehicle technologies. The engineers, scientists, technicians, and project leaders at GVSC support the Army’s ground vehicles beginning with basic research in support of the future of ground vehicle technology, further developing emerging technologies for integration onto Army platforms, sustaining platforms through their lifecycles, and all of the research, development, testing, integration, and relationship building with our industry partners that is necessary to be successful in providing its Warfighters with the best capabilities possible.
