Distributed Manufacturing for Defense

Enable supply chain resilience, part innovation, and operational readiness

Produce parts on demand for rapid sustainment, strengthen supply chains through decentralized production, and enable multi-functional components with additive manufacturing (AM). Our secure, industrial-scale AM solutions will help you source parts faster, future-proof your supply chain, and tap into design innovation.

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Solve your defense manufacturing and supply challenges

Fragmented and vulnerable supply chains

Global disruptions, disconnected suppliers with limited visibility, and longer logistics chains can delay access to crucial parts. AM enables on-demand, localized production and hard-to-source parts, allowing you to produce parts anytime, anywhere, while reducing supply chain bottlenecks — all protected by software like Identify3D.

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Legacy rapid sustainment systems

Aging platforms and intricate assembly systems often rely on spare parts that are difficult or impossible to get. With AM, you can reverse-engineer hard-to-source parts, while our secure software ecosystem allows you to establish a distributed, operational production network in any location.

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Constant pressure around operational readiness

Defense organizations need responsive manufacturing capacity that can keep pace with shifting mission requirements. Additive manufacturing provides you with the agility to adjust production capacity quickly, including in decentralized or constrained environments where responsiveness matters most.

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Difficulty sourcing complex parts

Mission-specific adaptations to key parts are needed with greater urgency, which can impact lead times. AM allows for lightweight, customized designs that traditional manufacturing struggles to produce. And we have the expertise to support you with identifying applications and redesigning parts for AM, such as complex part consolidation into durable, single pieces.

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How additive manufacturing supports supply chain readiness

Flexibility

Resilience

Innovation

A proven additive manufacturing partner

Access a secure software ecosystem

Equip decentralized manufacturing

Leverage certified polymers

Work with certified metals

Defense applications tailor-made for on-demand manufacturing

Quality and compliance

Traceability


Robust quality systems


Certification and standards alignment


Process validation