America Makes selects two teams for $12.4M metal AM qualification initiative
America Makes, Youngstown, Ohio, and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have announced the selection of two project teams under the $12.4 million Maturation Initiative for Additive Metals Interchangeability (MIAMI) project call.
The initiative is funded through the Industrial Base Resilience, Warfighting Investments, Resourcing, and Execution Office (WIRE), within the US Department of War.
The MIAMI initiative aims to validate the use of metallic materials produced by Additive Manufacturing as alternatives to conventional alloys in Department of Defense (DoD) weapon system components.
The selected teams will identify candidate components, establish performance requirements and generate shared, validated data to demonstrate whether AM materials meet or exceed the critical properties of the alloys they are intended to replace.
The work is intended to reduce redundant testing, support material qualification and facilitate the use of AM materials across multiple defence platforms. The projects are also expected to help reduce technical and industrial risks and identify routes to adoption within the DoD and its organic industrial base.
The selected project teams are:
- Project lead: Northrop Grumman Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia) Project partners:
- Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia)
- Contextualize, LLC (Littleton, Colorado)
- Project lead: Fastech, LLC (Danville, Virginia) Project partners:
- Pacific Engineering (Roca, Nebraska)
- Auburn University/National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence (Auburn, Alabama)
- Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas)
- Prime Tech Data Management (location not provided)
- AML3D (US headquarters in Stow, Ohio)
- Westmoreland Mechanical Testing & Research, Inc (Youngstown, Pennsylvania)
