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Startup With 3D-Printed UAS Gets $100 Million Air Force Award

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Startup With 3D-Printed UAS Gets $100 Million Air Force Award
Firestorm's xCell containerized additive manufacturing system for 3D printing unmanned aircraft and related parts. Image: Firestorm Labs

Firestorm Labs, a startup that uses additive manufacturing to print unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), has received a $100 million Air Force contract for test and development purposes using the company’s Tempest drone. Under the five-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, San Diego-based Firestorm will work with the Air Force’s AFWERX innovation arm, Air Combat Command, and Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) to deliver its rapidly deployable UAS. Firestorm’s xCell semi-automated, container-based expeditionary additive manufacturing cell 3D prints the Tempest airframe in…

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