Open Additive wins U.S. Army SBIR contract for large-format metal AM project

December 4, 2020

Open Additive, LLC, Beavercreek, Ohio, USA, has been awarded a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase I contract through the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, Army Research Laboratory for its ‘Large-Format, Low-Cost Metal AM for Army Applications’ project.

The project was one of twenty-three selections from 189 proposals submitted to the Army’s X19.4 topic call: Expeditionary Technology Search (xTechSearch) Dual-Use Technologies to Solve Challenging Army Problems.

Open Additive explains that the accelerated Phase I effort will leverage the company’s 600 mm x 600 mm (24 in x 24 in) large-format Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB) testbed to pave the way for future applications.

The effort complements other active projects in large-format metal Additive Manufacturing led by the Open Additive, including SBIR Phase II/II+ projects funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (Open Systems Platform for Multi-Laser Additive Manufacturing) and Air Force Test Center (Advanced Runway Texture Imitations for Specialized Tiles Fabrication via Selective Laser Melting).

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