After first looking at the America Makes institute back when it was called the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, I began wondering what the Department of Defense (DoD) and the defense industry want with 3D printing. If the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) represents at all what the DoD’s interests in the technology are, then 3D printing for the defense industry means keeping ahead of global competitors, bringing war fighting technology to the battlefield much more quickly, and making faster innovations and improvements to technology when it’s already in use.…
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