The Department of War funding will support automation and workforce development at 12 military manufacturing sites. Fifteen member organizations will participate.

f you want a snapshot of where U.S. defense additive manufacturing is heading, the agenda for the next America Makes Technical Review & Exchange (TRX) is a pretty good place to look.

America Makes will hold its Fall TRX from Oct. 27–29 at Northrop Grumman’s Presentation Center in Redondo Beach, California. Unlike a conventional 3D printing...

In celebration of National Composites Week 2026 this week, this episode of CW Talks features host Scott Francis, editor-in-chief of CompositesWorld , in conversation with Jason Gibson, chief commercialization officer at the IACMI – The Composites Institute . Gibson discusses this year’s National Composites Week theme, “Composites Built to Scale,”...

As AI companies pack data centers with hundreds of thousands of processors, the copper wiring that has moved data between them for decades is running out of capacity and burning too much power to keep up.

The fix the industry has settled on is optical: replacing electrical connections with fiber and, increasingly, optics built directly onto the...

Wars in both Ukraine and Iran have demonstrated a new factor in 21 st century warfare: low cost drones. The ability of modern low-cost UAVs to saturate modern air defense systems, and absorb large quantities of very expensive defensive missiles, has put a premium on mass production of weapons for future preparedness.

In an effort to kick start this...