
The Navy opened a new Additive Manufacturing (AM) Center of Excellence (CoE) within Virginia’s Center for Manufacturing Advancement (CMA) that aims to help accelerate and scale up AM while also centralizing the Navy demand signal for the industrial base. Additive manufacturing, also known as 3-D printing, allows the production of lighter parts, custom parts, and rapid prototyping. This new Center of Excellence is located on the Danville, Va., campus of the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR), and co-located…