3D printing

3D printing

U.S. Senators, U.S. Department of Defense leadership and University of Maine officials - Photo by UMaine.

With the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, the US Department of Defense 3D-printed the world's largest prototype logistics vessel. The Marine Corps...
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Marines recently used 3D printing technology to make a head cap for the rocket motor on a key mine-clearing device that was later operated...

Materials that can perform under high pressure, high-temperature environments are needed for automotive, aerospace, defense, and space applications.  Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researchers have...

3D printing technology can replace more time-consuming traditional forms of construction, such as creating infrastructure to help communities respond to natural disasters, along with...
3d printing tech for battlefield

Additive manufacturing — also known as 3D printing — has been in development for decades and the U.S. military branches and the defense industrial...
aircraft spare parts

A new production process of aircraft parts reduces the operational time lost in repairs and means that other jets do not have to be...
3d printing

In the future, people shouldn’t be expected to have an engineering degree to build robots, any more than they should have a computer science...

The longitudinal and shear energy waves produced by earthquakes travel through the ground and can destroy buildings miles from the epicenter. Preventing that damage...

Critical care at the battlefield will save lives and provide a more complete recovery thanks to the innovative use of 3D printers.  3D printers can...

It can often take weeks to months to manufacture and airlift organic pharmaceuticals and protein therapeutics to battlefield frontlines, meaning that critical medical supplies...

The COVID-19 pandemic has created new opportunities for innovation. The smart city global market is expected to reach $2.46 trillion by 2025. In fact,...

By tweaking the chemistry of a single polymer, researchers at Texas A&M University and the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory...

One of the biggest bottlenecks for the modern aerospace industry is that conventional engineering and manufacturing techniques are far too slow for a rapidly...
3d printing

3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is becoming more and more prevalent in the military maintenance and logistics fields. The technology will soon be used...
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Do you have a groundbreaking technology? iHLS, an expert on security technology with a focus on dual-use technologies invites startups from Israel and abroad to...
3d printing tech for battlefield

Replacement parts for military systems are usually ordered from warehouses thousands of miles away from the troops, only to wait weeks for them to...
3d printing

As coronavirus spreads globally, shortages of medical supplies have become a major problem. The urgent need for respiratory ventilators has become a major challenge...

The United States Air Force is about to save millions of dollars each year, all thanks to a 3D printed tool invented by a...

A new cargo drone capable of lifting 180kgs (400lbs) of payload has reached the stage of commercial testing in Canada. The aircraft will reportedly...
military technologies

Groundbreaking military technologies were developed during 2019, from new power resources to human-machine teaming. Here are the top 10 of the leading ones developed...

The United States Army needs to increase it use of 3D printing according to the U.S. Secretary of the Army, Ryan McCarthy. McCarthy has...
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Thanks to 3D-printing technology, troops could produce replacement parts on the spot, even putting heavy equipment such as an Abrams tank back into the...