America Makes and NCDMM announce winners of $850K AM pre-qualification call
May 8, 2024
America Makes, Youngstown, Ohio, USA, and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have announced the winners of the $850K AM Process Pre-Qualification Open Project Call funded by the Department of the Air Force (DAF) ManTech Office.
Below is the list of award winners and related topic areas for AM Process Pre-Qualifications:
Project 1: AM Process Pre-Qualification
- Team Lead: Applied Optimization, Inc.
- Project Team: ASTM International, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Project 2: Sensor-Based Approaches to [Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion/PBF-LB] Machine Pre-Qualification
- Team Lead: University of Dayton Research Institute
- Project Team: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation; The Ohio State University Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence; ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions, LLC
Project 3: Build Area Qualification through Statistical Modeling of Melt Pool and Defect Distribution
- Team Lead: Sentient Science
- Project Team: Purdue University
Project teams will report on their progress at the America Makes Technical Review and Exchange and other industry events during the execution phase of the programme.
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