Snowbird to showcase SAMM Tech at RIMPAC 2026
Snowbird Technologies, based in Jacksonville, Florida, USA, has announced that it will showcase its SAMM (Snowbird Additive Mobile Manufacturing) Technology Tech mobile manufacturing machine during the Rim of the Pacific Exercise 2026 (RIMPAC 2026) as part of a distributed Additive Manufacturing initiative led by the Naval Postgraduate School’s Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing Research and Education (CAMRE).
SAMM Tech is a patented modular manufacturing machine that combines metal and polymer Additive Manufacturing and CNC machining. The machine integrates technologies from Meltio, Slice Engineering and FANUC and is intended for deployment in expeditionary and maritime environments.
The Snowbird machine will support operations while in transit from US Navy Base San Diego to Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii before remaining deployed on-site throughout the exercise, scheduled to take place from June 24–July 31, 2026, around the Hawaiian Islands.
According to Snowbird Technologies, its SAMM Tech machine is intended to support the rapid production of replacement and mission-ready parts in operational environments. CAMRE’s distributed manufacturing initiative aims to connect more than fifty Additive Manufacturing nodes into a unified network intended to reduce production lead times for critical components.
Snowbird previously demonstrated the machine during RIMPAC 2024, including at-sea manufacturing aboard the USS Somerset. During one operation, the company stated that the system produced and machined a replacement bushing for the vessel’s reverse osmosis generator within thirty-four hours.
For RIMPAC 2026, Snowbird plans to expand the use of SAMM Tech to support both shipboard and shipyard-based manufacturing activities.
“SAMM Tech’s containerised, all-in-one design enables seamless transition from maritime to onshore operations,” stated Karl Wojtkun, Vice President of Business Development at Snowbird Technologies. “We’re proud to support the thirtieth iteration of RIMPAC and look forward to validating our capabilities in new environments to better serve the warfighter at the tactical edge.”
The company’s participation is supported through CAMRE and FLEETWERX, an innovation partnership serving the Naval Postgraduate School that brings together government, industry and academia to evaluate technologies for naval and joint-force applications.
Ethan Brown, Program Manager at FLEETWERX, added, “RIMPAC provides an important opportunity to evaluate how technologies like Snowbird’s SAMM Tech platform can perform in real operational environments to support part replacement, equipment maintenance and sustainment closer to the point of need in maritime environments.”
More information about RIMPAC is available here.
