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America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining have extended the deadline for an open project call worth a total of $1.1 million.

Funded through the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering’s Manufacturing Technology Office, the project call, Allied Additive Manufacturing Interoperability...

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Network’s First Institute Is Poised to Help Transform Manufacturing

America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, was the first manufacturing innovation institute in what would become the Manufacturing USA network. Since 2012, America Makes has been a driving force in the advancement of additive manufacturing (AM)...

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Additive Manufacturing, Funding Opportunity

This project call reflects a focused, collaborative effort led by the America Makes Roadmap Advisory Group (RMAG) and its five working groups: Design, Process, Material, Value Chain, and AM Genome. These groups met over two months to generate and prioritize project topics, which were then shared with the Department of Defense’s Joint Additive...