America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have announced two new project calls worth a total of $8M in funding.
The first project call, Powder Alloy Development for Additive Manufacturing (PADAM) 2.0, funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Material and Manufacturing Directorate (AFRL RXN), has a $6M budget and aims to advance the readiness, manufacturability, performance, and supply chain resilience of high-temperature refractory alloys for additive manufacturing (AM) applications relevant to the Department of Defense (DoD). Proposed efforts are expected to generate data, improve process robustness and qualification readiness, and deliver actionable insights that reduce technical and industrial risk while enabling realistic transition pathways. Collectively, the outcomes are intended to provide mutual value to DoD and industry by accelerating informed adoption of refractory alloys in AM.