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Navy Metallic 3-D Printing Could Reduce Components Schedule By 80 Percent

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Navy Metallic 3-D Printing Could Reduce Components Schedule By 80 Percent
Military leaders cut the ribbon at the Navy’s new Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (CoE) in Danville, Va. on Oct. 5, 2022. From left: Rear Adm. Jason M. Lloyd, chief engineer and deputy commander, Ship Design, Integration and Naval Engineering, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA); Rear Adm. Scott Pappano, program executive officer, Strategic Submarines (PEO SSBN); Whitney Jones, director, Submarine Industrial Base; Matt Sermon, executive director, PEO SSBN; and Vice Adm. William Galinis, commander, NAVSEA. (Photo: U.S. Navy courtesy of Institute for Advanced Learning and Research)

The Program Executive officer for Strategic Submarines this week said improvements in metallic additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, could lead to upward of an 80 percent reduction in the schedule to get components in new construction shipyards. Speaking during a panel discussion Monday at the American Society of Naval Engineers’ Technology, Systems and Ships Symposium, Matt Sermon said the Navy is investing in the ability to produce heavy metal parts via additive manufacturing, especially in castings, forgings, fittings, valves…

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