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How Distributed Metal Additive
Manufacturing Can Add a Surge
to Military Supplier Strategies
M
ore than five years ago,
then-U.S. Undersecretary
of Defense for Research
and Engineering, Michael
Griffin, announced the department's
future Defense Digital Engineering
Strategy. That long-term strategy,
still ongoing, aims to " formalize the
development, integration, and use of
models to inform enterprise and program
decision making, " and provide
" an enduring, authoritative source of
truth " for improved innovation and
culture-wide collaboration in making
weapons systems and parts.
Within U.S. and Allied defense
departments, there is increasing
awareness that additive manufacturing
(AM, aka 3D printing) as a means
for achieving digitalized, on-demand,
production agility, has a significant
role to play in realizing these strategic
goals. AM is already providing faster
and more flexible part turnaround
and cost reduction of some low- and
even mid-volume military parts.
In compliance with Department of
Defense (DoD) objectives, AM is a
model-based, integrated, and enterprise-ready
technology - one that is
now proving its worth.
Shells and Other Armaments
The current crisis in supplying 155
mm artillery shells to Ukraine brings
to a head the problem of relying on
traditional manufacturing and legacy
supply chain practices. Production
of those shells, and other military
components, is slow and inventory-based.
Even a doubling of shell production
in the U.S. - as planned, to
1.2 million units per year by 2025 -
would not support Ukraine's desired
field-firing needs.
The same can be said of the need
for Javelin anti-tank missiles. 8,500
Javelins were delivered to Ukraine at
the start of the conflict. They helped
stall the Russian invasion. But those
missiles are virtually unavailable now.
The U.S. is racing to increase Javelin
production from 1,000 systems a year
to a surge of 2,100. The DoD and Lockheed
Martin have stated it will take
about 80 months (or 6.5 years) to
rebuild U.S. reserves for training and
potential future warfare.
These shortage scenarios are representative
of production issues
that span various weapons systems.
Importantly, the same supply chain
problems can be found across many
commercial industries as well. Common
solutions - increasingly founded
on AM - are emerging to address
both sectors.
For example, metal AM is driving
innovation and addressing supply
shortages in oil and gas parts manufacturing.
The technology is operating
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