Velo3D, an additive manufacturing know-how firm for mission-critical metallic components, has entered into an Different Transition Settlement (OTA) contract with the US Division of Battle’s (DoW) Protection Innovation Unit (DIU) in help of a significant weapon system program of report. The contract, with a complete worth of $32.6 million, helps DIU’s Foundry for Operational Readiness and International Results (Mission FORGE).
Mission FORGE is charged with figuring out options to the present downside of main manufacturing bottlenecks for sure historically manufactured components and platforms inside the US protection industrial base. These manufacturing bottlenecks stop the throughput essential to scale a essential DoW weapon system program. Velo3D will work with DIU, the US Navy, and a key trade prime to prototype and qualify AM parts that can enable the DoW to effectively scale the AM answer to take away the bottleneck and improve manufacturing charges for this essential program.
“We’re excited for the collaboration between DIU and trade companions like Velo3D to develop and qualify the AM answer wanted to resolve a essential manufacturing backlog,” mentioned Mr. Derek McBride, Program Supervisor at DIU. “The mix of DIU’s experience in quickly responding to a few of the DoW’s most troublesome challenges and Velo3D’s capabilities as a complicated additive producer, is the kind of shut collaboration we’d like with our Protection Industrial Base to help the warfighter.”
The contract leverages Velo3D’s Fast Manufacturing Resolution (RPS) to shortly prototype options to conventional subtractive manufacturing strategies. Moreover, the settlement consists of an choice to discover the event of the most important format Laser Powder Mattress Fusion (LPBF) printing functionality inside the US to help AM wants not at present doable inside the US industrial base. Velo3D’s RPS leverages its programs, experience, and surge capability options to allow scalable manufacturing of mission-critical parts that may considerably allow the DoW’s efforts to cut back manufacturing bottlenecks.
“As the one US-based industrial scale OEM with domestically developed Laser Powder-Mattress Fusion know-how, Velo3D is completely honored for the chance to collaborate with the DoW, DIU, and the Navy to in the end ship an answer that helps the warfighter,” mentioned Dr. Arun Jeldi, CEO of Velo3D. “Via our Fast Manufacturing Resolution, we’re offering sooner half supply, enhanced reliability, and the surge capability wanted to satisfy evolving protection calls for.”
All Velo3D Sapphire printers are assembled in the USA and are able to printing components as much as 600mm in diameter and one meter in top repeatably throughout all the fleet of Velo3D Sapphire printers. This development considerably expands addressable functions, enabling bigger half manufacturing whereas providing the numerous advantages of LPBF know-how.
Velo3D’s programs meet DoD cybersecurity requirements and might join securely to army networks, making certain integrity and safety for essential manufacturing operations.
